DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies captain Hayley Matthews and legendary all-rounder Deandra Dottin have joined voices praising the ICC’s resolution to introduce equal prize cash for males’s and girls’s competitions.
This monumental step comes forward of the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup 2024, marking a major second for the event and the way forward for ladies’s cricket.
The winners of this yr’s World Cup, which concludes on October 20, will take house USD 2.34 million, whereas the runners-up will obtain $1.17 million.
The entire prize pool of $7.95 million displays a 225% improve from the earlier version, positioning cricket as the one central staff sport to supply equal prize cash for each its males’s and girls’s World Cup occasions.
As West Indies prepares to open their marketing campaign in opposition to South Africa on October 4 in Dubai, Matthews expressed her delight on the transfer, highlighting its significance for ladies cricketers globally.
“It places a number of respect on the sport,” mentioned Matthews. As skilled cricketers, we work as onerous as males do, so receiving equal prize cash is a big step ahead.
It validates our efforts and the fervour we convey to the sport. Hopefully, that is only the start of extra constructive adjustments for ladies’s cricket throughout the board.”
Matthews’ sentiments are echoed by the returning Deandra Dottin, who’s again within the West Indies squad after a two-year absence.
Recognized for her explosive all-round skills, Dottin welcomed the adjustments, noting that this shift displays the rising respect for ladies’s cricket on the international degree.
“It’s nice to see the ICC taking this step. It exhibits that girls’s cricket is being taken severely, and that’s an enormous enhance for gamers like us. We’ve at all times labored onerous and now see tangible recognition for that effort. It is a main transfer in the proper path.”
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