In a historic resolution, England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has introduced an equal pay for the Males and Ladies cricketers. The current Ladies’s Ashes sequence between England and Australia witnessed a record-breaking crowd of 110,000 and following this, ECB has determined to extend the match charges of ladies cricketers and convey them consistent with Males’s when it comes to match charges.
Taunton, Bristol and Hampshire had been bought out throughout their sequence in opposition to Australia whereas new data had been set for ladies’s worldwide attendance at Edgbaston, Kia Oval and Lord’s. England Ladies’s captain Heather Knight was delighted with the assist and even went on to time period the sequence as “one of the best there’s ever been within the historical past of the ladies’s recreation.” Coming again to ECB’s historic resolution, the brand new modifications take impact instantly from the sequence in opposition to Sri Lanka starting this week.
Knight was proud of the ECB over the choice and felt it was vital to draw extra ladies to the game within the nation. She additionally thanked England Ladies’s Participant Partnership for his or her continued assist and efforts to develop Ladies’s recreation. “It’s actually vital that we proceed to drive the ladies’s recreation ahead and it’s implausible to see equal match charges for England Ladies and England Males. The path of journey for the ladies’s recreation has all the time been a very powerful factor, making a sustainable product that folks wish to watch and play, and I’m certain this can make cricket an more and more enticing sport to ladies and younger ladies as we proceed to develop the sport.
“I’d additionally prefer to thank the PCA and England Ladies’s Participant Partnership for his or her assist in representing the gamers and the expansion of the skilled recreation,” she stated. England Ladies are scheduled to face Sri Lanka Ladies from August 31 in a three-match T20I sequence. The 2 groups may also lock horns in opposition to one another in three ODIs ranging from September 9.
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