DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – West Indies captain Hayley Matthews and famend all-rounder Deandra Dottin have praised the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) historic choice to supply equal prize cash for males’s and girls’s competitions, hailing it as a transformative second for girls’s cricket.
This monumental change will see the winners of the 2024 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, which ends on October 20, take dwelling USD 2.34 million, whereas the runners-up will obtain USD 1.17 million. The entire prize pool has surged to USD 7.95 million, representing a 225% improve from the earlier version and making cricket the one main crew sport to supply equal prize cash throughout its males’s and girls’s World Cup tournaments.
Because the West Indies put together to kick off their World Cup marketing campaign in opposition to South Africa on Friday in Dubai, Matthews expressed her pleasure over the ICC’s choice, underscoring its significance for the ladies’s sport globally.
Respect on the sport
“This places numerous respect on the sport,” stated Matthews. “As skilled cricketers, we work as laborious as the lads, so receiving equal prize cash is a large step ahead. It validates our efforts and fervour. Hopefully, that is only the start of extra constructive adjustments for girls’s cricket.”
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Her views have been echoed by Deandra Dottin, who’s again within the West Indies squad after a two-year absence. Identified for her highly effective all-round sport, Dottin welcomed the transfer, emphasizing the way it displays the rising recognition of girls’s cricket worldwide.
“It’s nice to see the ICC taking this step,” Dottin stated. “It exhibits that girls’s cricket is being taken significantly, and that’s an enormous enhance for gamers like us. We’ve all the time labored laborious, and now we’re seeing tangible recognition for that effort. It is a main transfer in the correct course.”
