ECB doubles Girls’s Hundred salaries for 2022 version
2021-12-01 22:21:26
Fee bands for feminine avid gamers subsequent season will vary from £7500 to £31,250
The ECB has greater than doubled salaries for feminine avid gamers in the second one season of the Hundred after the inaugural girls’s festival broke data for attendances and TV viewing figures.
Girls’s salaries ranged from £3600 (US$4800) to £15,000 (US$20,000) – with a captaincy bonus of £1200 (US$1600) – within the 2021 version of the Hundred and whilst prize cash for the boys’s and ladies’s tournaments was once equivalent, there was once a stark disparity in wages with the lowest-paid male avid gamers incomes 60% greater than the highest-paid feminine avid gamers.
ESPNcricinfo can expose that girls’s salaries will building up by way of 108% around the board for 2022, starting from £7500 (US$10,000) to £31,250 (US$41,500), with a £2500 (US$3300) captaincy bonus. Groups could have a £250,000 (US$330,000) handbag to separate throughout their 15-player squads, up from £120,000 (US$160,000), with the ECB’s overall outlay on girls’s salaries leaping from £960,000 (US$1.28m) to £2 million (US$2.66m).
“Salaries within the Hundred girls’s festival have greater than doubled forward of the second one yr of the contest,” a spokesperson for the Hundred mentioned. “We are proud to be considerably expanding our funding in girls’s salaries, we consider it is a step in the suitable route as we develop the ladies’s sport and are dedicated to our ongoing strengthen of the Hundred girls’s festival.”
The wage hike additional will increase the possibilities of the sector’s best possible girls’s cricketers showing within the 2022 version of the Hundred, after a raft of Australia internationals withdrew in a while prior to its first season because of quarantine necessities and restrictions on world trip. With the Commonwealth Video games because of be staged at Edgbaston from July 29 to August 7, many main internationals are more likely to stay within the nation for the Hundred.
The rise is especially important for the lowest-paid avid gamers within the event, a number of of whom needed to take annual go away or ask for time without work from their employers all through the inaugural season. Kate Pass, the England seamer, informed the Telegraph final yr that “till the ones decrease brackets are crowned up, you’ll want to have some women falling by the wayside as a result of in the long run it isn’t price their whilst with paintings”, however an building up within the backside wage band to £7500 for a month’s paintings will make enjoying within the Hundred extra financially viable.
Matt Curler is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. @mroller98
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