ICC increases Women’s T20 World Cup prize money to $7.9 million

“This switch is per the ICC’s technique to prioritise the ladies folk’s recreation and bustle its express by 2032,” the ICC said in a statement.

17 September, 2024, 03:05 pm

Final modified: 17 September, 2024, 03:07 pm

Subsequent month’s Ladies’s T20 World Cup will provide a file whole of $7.96 million in prize money, organising physique the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) said on Tuesday.

The winners of the tournament will salvage $2.34 million, more than double the $1 million awarded to Australia for winning the outdated edition of the tournament in 2023.

India bought $2.45 million earlier this year for winning the boys’s T20 World Cup, which handed out a whole of $11.25 million.

“Groups will now salvage equal prize money for the same finishing position at similar events moreover the same quantity for winning a match at these events.

“The men’s T20 World Cup 2024 tournament prize money is handiest better on story of 10 extra groups taking fragment and 32 more matches played.”

The shedding finalists will stroll away with $1.17 million, whereas each of the 10 taking fragment groups are assured of $112,500.

The Ladies’s T20 World Cup, scheduled for Oct. 3 to twenty, used to be moved to the United Arab Emirates from Bangladesh, which has been rocked by political turmoil and violence in most modern months.