SLC triples match charges for ladies’s cricketers

Sri Lanka Cricket has tripled the match charge it pays to ladies’s worldwide cricketers, and has additionally launched a “winning bonus”.

Where gamers had been paid $250 per white-ball sport, they’ll now obtain $750. If they win, they may also get an additional $250. Squad members who didn’t play the match, in the meantime, will get 25% of the match charge.

“The move is part of Sri Lanka Cricket’s efforts towards further enhancing women’s cricket in the country and empowering female cricketers,” a board launch mentioned.

SLC has at occasions been accused of failing to prioritise ladies’s cricket, significantly through the pandemic, with Sri Lanka not enjoying a match between March 2020 and January 2022. The elevated match charge can also be solely a fraction of what the boys’s nationwide facet will get paid. They acquired $3000 per T20I and $4000 per ODI as per their most-recent contracts.

But the hike in match charges is substantial however, significantly within the gentle of Sri Lanka’s ongoing financial disaster.