The England Cricket Board (ECB) introduced on Wednesday that it’ll enhance the match charges for the England Ladies’s cricket group to convey them in keeping with the Males’s cricket group.
England joins the likes of New Zealand, India and South Africa in saying equal match charges for each males’s and girls’s groups.
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A press release on the ECB web site mentioned that the choice was taken after the resounding success of the Ladies’s Ashes held in England earlier within the yr.
Video games at Edgbaston, the Kia Oval and Lord’s set new attendance information whereas Taunton, Bristol and Hampshire noticed sold-out matches throughout the sequence, the assertion mentioned.
The change in match charges is about to be efficient instantly, simply earlier than the white-ball sequence towards Sri Lanka.
Richard Gould, ECB Chief Govt Officer, mentioned: “This summer time’s thrilling Metro Financial institution Ladies’s Ashes sequence demonstrated how girls’s cricket is constant to develop at tempo on this nation, with file attendances and TV viewing.”
““Within the years forward, we are going to proceed to take a position forward of revenues. We’re at present contemplating all of the suggestions made by the Impartial Fee for Fairness in Cricket, however equalising match charges is one instant step we’re happy to make now.”
“As we proceed to develop girls’s cricket, we are going to proceed to give attention to making thought of investments that stretch far-and-wide throughout the ladies’s cricket constructions, delivering a thriving, worthwhile and future-proofed recreation,” he added.
Heather Knight, England Ladies’s Captain, mentioned: “It’s actually necessary that we proceed to drive the ladies’s recreation ahead and it’s unbelievable to see equal match charges for England Ladies and England Males.”
“I’d additionally prefer to thank the PCA and England Ladies’s Participant Partnership for his or her assist in representing the gamers and the expansion of the skilled recreation,” she added.