Harmanpreet Kaur elated at BCCI’s equal match charges announcement: Red letter day for girls’s cricket in India

India ladies’s cricket crew captain Harmanpreet Kaur was delighted after the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) introduced equal match charges for each males’s and girls’s cricketers in India.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Oct 27, 2022 17:21 IST

Harmanpreet Kaur thanks BCCI for historic equal match charges choice (AP Photo)

By India Today Web Desk: India ladies’s cricket crew captain Harmanpreet Kaur was elated after the BCCI, in a landmark choice, introduced equal match charges for its centrally-contracted feminine and male gamers in a bid to advertise gender equality within the nation’s hottest sport.

Harmanpreet referred to as it “a red letter day for women’s cricketers” and expressed her gratitude to the board and its secretary, Jay Shah. Truly a red-letter day for Women’s Cricket in India with pay parity introduced for men and women. Thank you, @BCCI and @JayShah.”

According to the brand new system, Indian ladies’s cricketers will now be paid the identical as their male counterparts: Rs 15 lakh per Test, Rs 6 lakh per ODI, and Rs 3 lakh per T20I. Previously, ladies’s ODI and T20I match charges have been Rs one lakh every, whereas Test match charges have been Rs 4 lakh.The choice was taken on the BCCI Apex Council emergent assembly.

BCCI President Roger Binny stated, ”This choice units the platform to develop and develop cricket. I imagine this can be a important step ahead for girls’s cricket and the sport total.” BCCI secretary Jay Shah stated pay fairness is a vital step in the direction of tackling discrimination.

“It was my commitment to our women cricketers and pay equity is an important step towards tackling discrimination. The female cricketers will be paid the same match fee as their male counterparts. Test (INR 15 lakhs), ODI (INR 6 lakhs), T20I (INR 3 lakhs). This is a landmark decision as we enter a new era in Indian Cricket. I would like to thank my colleagues in the BCCI Apex Council,” BCCI secretary Jay Shah stated.

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Oct 27, 2022