Huge cash win for Aussie stars

Cricket Australia has further raised the barroom erstwhile it comes to rewarding its elite pistillate stars with the mean home wage acceptable to walk $160,000 aft adding a state-based T20 contention to the summertime schedule.

Boldly declaring an intent to rise concern successful women’s and girls cricket to a monolithic $500m implicit the adjacent decade, the caller contention volition marque up the games mislaid by the WBBL that volition beryllium shortened to autumn successful enactment with the men’s BBL.

The WBBL volition go a 40-match contention with games again acceptable to beryllium staged astatine venues including the SCG and Adelaide Oval arsenic CA maintains its propulsion for the women’s crippled into large stadiums.

This summertime volition besides diagnostic the archetypal women’s Test astatine the MCG for much than 70 years erstwhile Australia plays England.

The caller home women’s T20 contention volition make “additional high-performance opportunities for home players” and comes with a currency windfall for those involved.

The mean pistillate home subordinate wage for 2024-25 – inclusive of WBBL contract, state/territory declaration and home lucifer payments – volition leap to $163,322, an summation of $12,303 connected 2023-24.

The WBBL wage cap, which was boosted to pull the world’s champion players, volition beryllium maintained, meaning nary simplification successful subordinate payments.

“Australian cricket has been astatine the forefront of the maturation successful women’s sport, providing immoderate of the champion opportunities for players with resourcing and remuneration and it’s reassuring to cognize this committedness volition not lone beryllium sustained but greatly enhanced implicit the adjacent 10 years,” superstar Ellyse Perry said.

“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.”

The Australian women’s cricket squad holds some the T20 and ODI World Cups, the Ashes, and besides won the inaugural Commonwealth Games golden medal.

CA brag Nick Hockley said women’s cricket was “one of the large occurrence stories of Australian sport”.

“We’ve seen what is imaginable with transformative moments specified arsenic 86,174 fans packing the MCG for the T20 World Cup final, which remains the highest attendance for a pistillate sporting lawsuit successful Australia,” helium said.

“There is truthful overmuch much accidental and enactment to beryllium done to guarantee large crowds successful large stadiums much often, that our unthinkable relation models are fixed the illustration they deserve, that each facets of the crippled are sex balanced, that done imaginative partnerships we thrust commercialized growth, sustainable concern and yet that much women and girls are inspired to emotion and play cricket.”