The minimal beginning wage for males’s and girls’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 sport for the primary time and is normally 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 12 months’s revamped home ladies’s soccer construction may have squad sizes of at the very least 15 contracted gamers and that these FCCs might want to make investments at the very least £500,000 in participant wage prices by 2025 .
As well as, a wage cap of £800,000 every 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 sport.
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 Girls’s Remaining Day on Sunday, July 27, and the inaugural Metro Financial institution One-Day Cup Girls’s Remaining might be held on the Utilita Bowl on Sunday, September 21.
Particulars of the beginning wage and wage price range have been accredited by the ECB’s Skilled Sport 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 modifications to the home ladies’s construction subsequent 12 months
Beth Barrett-Wild, Director of the Girls’s Skilled Sport, stated: “Equal beginning salaries for the boys’s and girls’s skilled home video games is one other constructive step ahead for girls’s cricket in England and Wales.
“The modifications we’ve made to the construction of girls’s home cricket over the previous 9 months have been designed to supply a sustainable and viable product that’s engaging off the sphere and of top of the range. As a part of this , it’s necessary that our gamers are paid appropriately and that cricket is just not solely seen as a viable profession possibility for girls, however a horny one.
“Each choice 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 a number of work to do on this space. However we’re making speedy progress , right this moment’s information represents one other necessary a part of the journey in direction of gender equality in gaming.
Emma Reid, PCA director of participant rights and girls’s cricket, stated: “Working with the ECB and the skilled sport, we’re more than happy to see minimal wage parity within the home sport for women and men from 2025.
“This can be a large step in direction of equality and a journey that 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 sport .
The Girls’s T20 World Cup might 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 to be broadcast dwell; the highest two groups in every pool advance to the semifinals
England Girls’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)
Girls’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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