Forward of the beginning of the CG United Super50 Cup, Cricket West Indies (CWI) has introduced a significant enhance in prize cash and bonuses for groups taking part within the match in addition to different regional competitions – totalling over US$2.5 million over a four-year interval.
With the area’s marquee Record A match set to bowl off on Tuesday, there’s the inducement for the champions to take dwelling a high prize of US$100,000 in addition to the Sir Clive Lloyd trophy after they win the grand last on Saturday 11 November underneath lights on the Brian Lara Cricket Academy.
The dropping finalists will obtain US$50,000 whereas the workforce that tops the factors desk within the league part may also get US$50,000. That is the largest prize cash within the historical past of the match.
Dr Kishore Shallow, President of CWI stated: “The purpose is to incentivize our cricketers, which is able to finally end in extra intense and aggressive cricket. We count on this together with different developmental applications will assist to shut the hole between worldwide cricket and our regional tournaments. These new prize monies signify a big enhance within the reward purse for groups in regional cricket. We firmly imagine it will act as a fillip to gamers’ performances and their pursuit of excellence. That is a part of our funding within the recreation and those that fly the flag on the sector.”
The rise additionally extends to all senior males’s and girls’s tournaments. There’s a huge enhance within the West Indies Championship that shall be performed within the first half of 2024. The champions of this conventional “pink ball” four-day, first-class competitors will win US$250,000. The second-placed workforce will obtain US$100,000.
There is a rise in winnings for the Girls’s CG United Super50 Cup and the T20 Blaze. The winners of the 50-overs will obtain US$20,000 subsequent yr with a minimal enhance of US$10,000 yearly over the following 4-year cycle. The runners-up will obtain half these quantities.
The T20 Blaze winners may also be rewarded with a rise – US$10,000 for the winners subsequent yr – with additional will increase yearly for the upcoming 4 years. The runners-up will obtain half these quantities.
CWI is finalizing a brand new 4-year MOU with the West Indies Gamers Affiliation, which is able to see additional will increase for particular person gamers, together with a significant enhance to girls’s remuneration.