DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The 2024 Girls’s T20 World Cup will set a brand new benchmark for prize cash, with over US$5 million up for grabs for the ten collaborating groups.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) revealed Tuesday that the champions of the match, scheduled to happen within the United Arab Emirates from October 3 to twenty, will probably be awarded a formidable US$2.34 million. This represents a big 134 per cent enhance in comparison with the US$1 million that 2023 winners Australia acquired.
The runners-up are set to earn US$1.17 million, whereas the 2 semi-finalists will stroll away with US$675,000 every—greater than triple the quantity given out within the earlier version.
Prize pool has soared to just about US$8 million
In whole, the prize pool has soared to just about US$8 million (US$7,958,080), a dramatic rise from the US$2.45 million distributed in final yr’s occasion.
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The West Indies Women will probably be eyeing their second T20 World Cup title, having beforehand gained in 2016.
Even within the group levels, groups will profit from the elevated monetary rewards. Every victory throughout this part will now usher in US$31,154, up 78 per cent from the earlier yr’s US$17,500.
Groups that don’t progress past the group stage will nonetheless obtain a base fee of US$112,500, guaranteeing that each one 10 collaborating sides share within the monetary windfall, no matter their ultimate standing.
ICC’s dedication to fostering the expansion
Moreover, groups ending between fifth and eighth place will acquire US$270,000 every, whereas these ending ninth and tenth will obtain US$135,000 every.
These prize will increase emphasize the ICC’s dedication to fostering the expansion and recognition of ladies’s cricket, offering substantial monetary backing for gamers and groups.
“The historic prize cash displays the ICC’s drive in direction of parity between the lads’s and girls’s video games, and elevates the Girls’s T20 World Cup as one of many premier world sporting occasions,” the ICC acknowledged in its announcement.
