West Indies’ Hayley Matthews performs a shot towards Australia throughout the remaining of the ICC Ladies’s World Twenty20 2016 cricket match at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India, Sunday, April 3, 2016.
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After Cricket West Indies’ regional physique introduced the signing of a four-year Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU), which is geared in direction of selling gender pay equality throughout the sport by 2027, West Indies Ladies’s Captain Hayley Matthews applauded CWI for its “dedication to the ladies’s sport.”
A CWI launch mentioned the MOU has a plan to “obtain parity in worldwide and regional match charges, worldwide captain’s allowances, worldwide staff prize cash and regional particular person prize cash for all West Indies cricketers by Oct. 1, 2027.”
The MOU is for Oct. 1, 2023 to Sept. 30, 2027. Some provisions within the MOU agreed upon embody: elevated staff prize cash all through the regional set-up, new particular person participant rewards and will increase for worldwide and regional males’s match charges, efficient Oct. 1, 2023, elevated worldwide and regional match charges and ICC Event charges for all ladies’s cricketers, to attain parity by Oct. 1, 2027.
CWI and WIPA have additionally dedicated to work effortlessly on reviewing and updating participant associated insurance policies together with CWI Health & Conditioning Plan and Coverage, CWI Science & Medication Coverage, CWI Choice Coverage and CWI NOC Coverage.
Ladies’s worldwide contracts may even be aligned with the efficiency grading system which has been applied for the boys’s sport, with CWI additionally planning to reinforce the present choice coverage and choice system.
“This is a chance for the ladies to make a greater dwelling for themselves. On the identical time, they must put money into themselves and their sport as properly,” mentioned Matthews, who was named because the 2023 ICC Ladies’s Twenty20 Worldwide Participant of the 12 months.
“What CWI have carried out or what they’ve been capable of put ahead undoubtedly reveals their dedication to the ladies’s sport. I feel all the ladies throughout the camp are pleased with the will increase we have now had.”
Final October, CWI launched the inaugural West Indies ladies’s academy in Antigua and likewise introduced a rise in prize cash for the ladies’s and T20 Blaze tournaments, with this 12 months’s winners set to obtain US$20,000 and US$10,000 respectively. The championship prize can be anticipated to extend yearly over the subsequent 4 years.
CWI President Kishore Shallow mentioned the sport is evolving and he acknowledged CWI and WIPA should come to an understanding with gamers on their participation in franchise leagues.
