The minimal beginning wage for males’s and ladies’s skilled home cricketers would be the identical from 2025, the ECB has confirmed.
The transfer will apply to each the ‘Rookie’ degree (which is launched to the ladies’s recreation for the primary time and is often a participant’s first skilled contract) and the ‘Senior Skilled’ degree (for gamers who’ve already established themselves within the first crew).
It has additionally been agreed that the eight first-tier counties with first-tier standing in subsequent yr’s revamped home ladies’s soccer construction may have squad sizes of no less than 15 contracted gamers and that these FCCs might want to make investments no less than £500,000 in participant wage prices by 2025 .
As well as, a wage cap of £800,000 each year has been agreed for the FCC, which has Tier 1 standing.
The transfer to equalize beginning salaries for female and male gamers is the most recent transfer to shake up the ladies’s skilled recreation.
It was introduced earlier this month that the ladies’s and males’s skilled white-ball competitions could be restructured from subsequent season beneath the Vitality Blast and Metrobank One-Day Cup banners. The Kia Oval will host the inaugural Vitality Blast Ladies’s Remaining Day on Sunday, July 27, and the inaugural Metro Financial institution One-Day Cup Ladies’s Remaining can be held on the Utilita Bowl on Sunday, September 21.
Particulars of the beginning wage and wage finances have been authorised by the ECB’s Skilled Recreation Committee (PGC), which consists of representatives from the FCC, Skilled Cricketers’ Affiliation (PCA) and the ECB.
The Sunrisers received their final Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy title final weekend, setting the stage for adjustments to the home ladies’s construction subsequent yr
Beth Barrett-Wild, director of the ladies’s skilled recreation, stated: “Equal beginning salaries for the boys’s and ladies’s skilled home video games is one other constructive step ahead for ladies’s cricket in England and Wales.
“The adjustments we now have made to the construction of girls’s home cricket over the previous 9 months are to supply a sustainable and viable product that’s engaging off the sector and of top quality. As a part of this, it’s important It is crucial that our gamers are paid appropriately and cricket is just not solely seen as a viable profession possibility for ladies however a lovely one.
“Each determination we make is more and more about making cricket a sport that’s engaging to younger women and boys. We all know we nonetheless have lots of work to do on this space. However we’re making speedy progress , at present’s information represents one other necessary a part of the journey in the direction of gender equality in gaming.
Emma Reid, PCA director of participant rights and ladies’s cricket, stated: “Working with the ECB and the skilled recreation, we’re more than happy to see minimal wages develop into equal throughout the boys’s and ladies’s home video games from 2025.
“It is a enormous step in the direction of equality and a journey the PCA is totally dedicated to, however there’s nonetheless additional work to be carried out. With the ladies’s crew beneath the umbrella of first-class counties, the PCA will proceed to foyer for equality in all areas of the skilled recreation .
The Ladies’s T20 World Cup can be held within the United Arab Emirates from October 3 to twenty, with England’s first match in opposition to Bangladesh on October 5; Scotland are within the England group; Australia are the defending champions of the World Cup, and Sky Sports activities has video games are broadcast reside; the highest two groups in every pool advance to the semifinals
England Ladies’s T20 World Cup Schedule
- Saturday, October 5: Bangladesh v England (Sharjah)
- Monday, October 7: England v South Africa (Sharjah)
- Sunday, October 13: England v Scotland (Sharjah)
- Tuesday, October fifteenth: England v West Indies (Dubai)
- Thursday, October 17: Semi-final 1 (Dubai)
- Friday, October 18: Semi-final 2 (Sharjah)
- Sunday, October 20: Remaining (Dubai)
Ladies’s T20 World Cup Group Stage
- Group A: Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
- Group B: South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Scotland
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