‘At the forefront of the women’s sport revolution’: Pay boost for Australia’s cricketers

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‘At the forefront of the women’s athletics revolution’: Pay boost for Australia’s cricketers

Australian cricketers successful women’s home competitions volition gain an mean wage of $160,000 nether a caller multimillion-dollar program to bolster maturation successful women and girls cricket.

Unveiled connected Tuesday, Cricket Australia’s 10-year program besides includes a alteration to the women’s Big Bash competition, which volition diagnostic a 40-game regular play – successful enactment with the BBL – and a caller home women’s Twenty20 contention volition beryllium introduced to “create further high-performance opportunities for home players”.

The WBBL volition determination to a 40-game season.

The governing body’s purpose is to summation the full gross of women’s cricket by $100 cardinal to support the athletics “at the forefront of the women’s athletics revolution”.

Among the summation successful subordinate payments, the highest assemblage committed to a $500 cardinal concern into infrastructure, increasing girls grassroots information rates to 100,000, and expanding the mean yearly attendance for each women’s cricket to 600,000.

Outlining the alteration to payments, Cricket Australia announced:

“The caller T20 contention volition rise the mean pistillate home subordinate wage for 2024-25 – inclusive of WBBL contract, state/territory declaration and home lucifer payments – to $163,322, an summation of $12,303 (8 per cent) connected 2023-24, portion the existent WBBL wage headdress volition beryllium maintained meaning nary simplification successful subordinate payments.”

Australian cricket champion Ellyse Perry emphasised the value of commercialized maturation for the sport.

“With viewing audiences increasing, the nationalist appetite for women’s athletics is present indisputable and we would emotion to spot large stadiums filled with fans for our planetary and WBBL games and much girls inspired to play cricket.

“It is besides highly important that the accrued involvement successful women’s athletics is reflected successful sponsorship and broadcast deals, and I anticipation this program volition proceed to thrust this maturation truthful that women’s cricket continues to thrive.”

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