The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has elevated match charges for the ladies’s group to deliver them in step with the lads’s group, the governing physique mentioned on Wednesday.
The rise takes impact instantly, beginning with the three-match Twenty20 collection towards Sri Lanka beginning on Thursday.
The choice follows record-breaking crowds on the Ladies’s Ashes collection in June and July, the place the full attendance was 110,000 and all three one-day internationals have been offered out.
“It is improbable to see equal match charges,” England ladies‘s captain Heather Knight mentioned. “I am certain this may make cricket an more and more engaging sport to women and younger ladies as we proceed to develop the sport.”
The change was really useful in a report launched by the Unbiased Fee for Fairness in Cricket final month, which mentioned the ladies’s match charges have been 25% of the lads’s for white-ball matches and 15% for take a look at matches.
“We’re at the moment contemplating all of the suggestions made by the Unbiased Fee for Fairness in Cricket, however equalising match charges is one speedy step we’re happy to make now,” ECB chief govt Richard Gould mentioned.
“All of us need cricket to be the group sport of selection for feminine athletes… Nevertheless, we all know there’s nonetheless a lot additional to go as we finally try for equality throughout the sport.”
The rise takes impact instantly, beginning with the three-match Twenty20 collection towards Sri Lanka beginning on Thursday.
The choice follows record-breaking crowds on the Ladies’s Ashes collection in June and July, the place the full attendance was 110,000 and all three one-day internationals have been offered out.
“It is improbable to see equal match charges,” England ladies‘s captain Heather Knight mentioned. “I am certain this may make cricket an more and more engaging sport to women and younger ladies as we proceed to develop the sport.”
The change was really useful in a report launched by the Unbiased Fee for Fairness in Cricket final month, which mentioned the ladies’s match charges have been 25% of the lads’s for white-ball matches and 15% for take a look at matches.
“We’re at the moment contemplating all of the suggestions made by the Unbiased Fee for Fairness in Cricket, however equalising match charges is one speedy step we’re happy to make now,” ECB chief govt Richard Gould mentioned.
“All of us need cricket to be the group sport of selection for feminine athletes… Nevertheless, we all know there’s nonetheless a lot additional to go as we finally try for equality throughout the sport.”
