The Indian nationwide ladies’s workforce made historical past on Sunday after successful their first-ever ICC Ladies’s World Cup. They beat South Africa by 52 runs to take action on the DY Patil Stadium.
Ladies’s cricket has been on the rise lately, particularly in India with stars like Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues and extra attracting mainstream consideration. The introduction of the Ladies’s Premier League (WPL) additionally added a aggressive edge to ladies’s cricket within the T20 franchise leagues division.
Nevertheless, the rise in reputation additionally raises curiosity, and one specific space of curiosity is how a lot do India’s ladies cricketers earn as in comparison with the lads. This is what we all know.
BCCI Central Contracts For Male and Feminine Cricketers
The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) fingers out Central Contracts to those that symbolize the nationwide workforce frequently. These contracts are additionally divided into sure classes which dictate a participant’s annual wage.
Based on a report by ESPNcricinfo from earlier this yr, prime gamers like Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, and Deepti Sharma are a part of BCCI’s Grade A Central Contract class which pays them Rs 50 lakh a yr.
Then there’s Grade B, which reportedly pays Rs 30 lakh a yr, and at last Grade C, which fingers out Rs 10 lakh a yr.
As for the lads, there’s additionally the same system, albeit with a further Grade A+ class, which boasts the likes of veterans Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, and Ravindra Jadeja.
They, additionally in response to an ESPNcricinfo report, receives a commission Rs 7 crore a yr, adopted by Central Contract Grades A, B, and C, which pay Rs 5, 3, and 1 crore yearly by the BCCI.
So there apparently is sort of a giant pay hole between India’s women and men’s cricket groups, nonetheless, it have to be famous that each units of gamers are paid the identical match charges.
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