Minimal beginning salaries will likely be equalled throughout males’s and ladies’s skilled home cricket from 2025, the ECB has confirmed.
The transfer will apply each at ‘rookie’ stage, which is being launched into the ladies’s recreation for the primary time and which can sometimes be a participant’s first skilled contract, and at ‘senior professional’ stage for gamers who’ve established themselves in first groups.
It has additionally been agreed that the eight first-class counties with tier-one standing in subsequent 12 months’s revamped home ladies’s construction may have minimal squad sizes of 15 contracted gamers and that these FCCs are required to take a position a minimum of £500,000 on their participant wage prices in 2025.
As well as, a wage cap of £800,000 per 12 months has been agreed for FCCs with tier-one standing.
The transfer to equalise beginning salaries for female and male gamers represents the most recent motion taken as a part of the restructuring of the ladies’s skilled recreation.
It follows the announcement earlier this month that the ladies’s and males’s skilled white-ball competitions will align from subsequent season underneath the Vitality Blast and Metro Financial institution One-Day Cup banners. The Kia Oval will host the inaugural Vitality Blast Ladies’s Finals Day on Sunday July 27, with the primary version of the Metro Financial institution One-Day Cup Ladies’s Closing going down at Utilita Bowl on Sunday September 21.
The beginning salaries and wage finances particulars have been permitted by the ECB’s Skilled Recreation Committee (PGC), which options representatives from FCCs, the Skilled Cricketers’ Affiliation (PCA) and the ECB.
Beth Barrett-Wild, director of Ladies’s Skilled Recreation, mentioned: “Equalising starting salaries across our men’s and women’s professional domestic game is another positive step forward for women’s cricket in England and Wales.
“The modifications we have made to the construction of ladies’s home cricket throughout the final 9 months have been about producing a sustainable and viable product that is engaging off the pitch, in addition to being high quality on it. As a part of this, it is necessary that our gamers are remunerated appropriately, and that cricket is seen not simply as a viable profession possibility for girls, however an attractive one.
“Increasingly, every decision we take is about making cricket as attractive a sport for young girls as it is for boys. We know we still have a lot of work to do in this space. But we are moving at pace, and the news today represents another significant building block in the journey to gender equity in the game.”
PCA director of participant rights and ladies’s cricket, Emma Reid, mentioned: “Working with the ECB and the professional game, we are really pleased to see equalised minimum salaries across the men’s and women’s domestic game from 2025.
“This can be a massive step in the direction of reaching parity and a journey that the PCA is totally dedicated to attaining, however there may be nonetheless additional work to do. With the ladies’s groups underneath the umbrella of the first-class counties, the PCA will proceed to foyer for parity throughout all areas of the skilled recreation.”
The Women’s T20 World Cup runs from October 3-20 in UAE with England’s first game against Bangladesh on October 5; Scotland are in England’s group; Australia are defending champions for tournament where every game is live on Sky Sports; top two teams in each pool make semi-finals
England Women T20 World Cup fixtures
- Saturday 5 October: Bangladesh v England (Sharjah)
- Monday 7 October: England v South Africa (Sharjah)
- Sunday 13 October: England v Scotland (Sharjah)
- Tuesday 15 October: England v West Indies (Dubai)
- Thursday 17 October: Semi-final 1 (Dubai)
- Friday 18 October: Semi-final 2 (Sharjah)
- Sunday 20 October: Final (Dubai)
Women’s T20 World Cup groups
- Group A: Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
- Group B: South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Scotland
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