Indian women’s team won the World Cup title for the first time. (Photo-PTI)
Indian Women Team: The Indian women’s team created history by defeating South Africa in the final match of the Women’s ODI World Cup played at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. With this, the women’s team achieved this position after a long struggle of 52 years. With this, the value of women cricketers has also increased significantly. The earnings of women cricketers have increased significantly in the last 3 years. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has a big role behind this.
You get so much money in central contract
in the year 2022 BCCI Made the match fees of women cricketers equal to that of men. After this the fortunes of women cricketers changed. Now women cricketers have a central contract. It has three grades A, B and C. A player in A grade gets an annual salary of Rs 50 lakh, a player in B grade gets Rs 30 lakh and a player in C grade gets an annual salary of Rs 10 lakh. Apart from this, he gets a good amount of money as match fee. Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur are included in Grade-A.
More income is earned from match fees
Women cricketers get the same match fees as men’s players. Women cricketers also get Rs 15 lakh per match for test matches. Apart from this, one gets Rs 6 lakh for playing one ODI match. Women cricketers earn Rs 3 lakh for playing a T20I match.
This fee is given to every female cricketer who is included in the playing eleven. Players who remain on the bench are given 50 percent match fee. Same structure has been implemented for men and women cricketers in domestic cricket also. However, there remains a slight difference at the state association level.
How much does WPL earn?
Like IPL, the popularity of WPL has increased a lot in the world. In this, the earnings of women cricketers are very high. According to reports, the lowest salary in this is Rs 10 lakh. Team India’s opening batsman Smriti Mandhana gets around Rs 3.50 crore every season from this league. Richa Ghosh’s earnings are around Rs 2.75 crore. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur’s earning from this league is Rs 2.5 crore. Apart from this, they also get salary according to the match.
Big money is earned from advertising
Now the players of the Indian women’s team are also earning a lot from advertisements. Due to this his net worth has increased rapidly. opener Smriti Mandhana Earns around Rs 50-75 lakh from advertisements. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur also earns around Rs 50 lakh from advertisements.