Anushka Sharma, Taapsee Pannu laud BCCI’s resolution of equal pay for female and male cricketers

Bollywood stars Taapsee Pannu and Anushka Sharma on Thursday welcomed the BCCI’s landmark resolution of equal match payment for its centrally-contracted feminine and male gamers in a bid to advertise gender equality in cricket. As per the newly launched system, the Indian ladies cricketers will now obtain Rs 15 lakh per Test, Rs 6 lakh per ODI, and Rs 3 lakh per T20I, the identical as their male counterparts.

Earlier, the ladies gamers acquired Rs 1 lakh every for ODIs and T20Is whereas the match payment for a Test match was Rs 4 lakh.

Taapsee, who performed former Indian captain Mithali Raj within the 2022 movie Shaabash Mithu, expressed her gratitude in the direction of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)  “A huge step towards equal pay for equal work. Thank you BCCI for leading with example,” the actor wrote on Twitter.

Taking to Instagram Stories, Anushka shared the screenshot of BCCI secretary Jay Shah’s tweet and reacted to the submit with three clapping emojis. The actor is ready to play former pacer Jhulan Goswami within the upcoming movie Chakda Xpress.

Filmmaker Onir shared a hyperlink of a information report in regards to the announcement on Twitter and urged the India movie fraternity to comply with go well with. “Fantastic…. Now hope the Indian film Industry takes a cue and learns (sic),” he wrote.

Recently, the Indian ladies’s cricket group triumphed within the Asia Cup in Bangladesh, beating Sri Lanka by eight wickets. The group additionally gained the nation’s first-ever silver medal in cricket on the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham earlier this yr.

In the final Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the BCCI, the cricket board additionally introduced the first-ever ladies’s IPL that’s scheduled to happen subsequent yr. Earlier this yr, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) had struck a take care of the nation’s gamers’ affiliation, which enabled the ladies cricketers to earn as a lot because the male gamers, whereas Cricket Australia (CA) can be working to dispose of gender disparity. India thus turned solely the second nation in worldwide cricket to implement equal pay.