The Skilled Cricketers’ Affiliation (PCA) says the rising disparity between the highest salaries of males’s and ladies’s gamers in The Hundred “can’t be allowed to proceed”.
The Girls’s Impression Report, launched earlier than Worldwide Girls’s Day on 8 March, has referred to as for extra to be carried out after the hole in pay between the highest males’s and ladies’s gamers widened from £75,000 to £135,000 for 2025.
Within the males’s competitors, top-level gamers will see their pay improve by 60% to £200,000, in comparison with a 30% rise to £65,000 for main girls’s stars as a part of an general 25% rise throughout all wage bands.
“Contemplating the match is marketed equally amongst the lads’s and ladies’s squads with the 2 groups, one membership mantra, which is to be applauded, it’s greater than disappointing to see the gender pay hole improve,” the report from the gamers’ union stated.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) just lately oversaw the gross sales of stakes within the eight Hundred franchises, with the groups reaching a collective worth of greater than £975m, bringing in about £520m to be break up throughout the sport on this nation.
Given this “inflow of cash” via non-public funding, “stakeholders within the sport needs to be doing all the things potential to shut this hole, particularly contemplating the elevated curiosity, viewership and ticket gross sales for ladies’s Hundred matches”, the report added.
The ECB stated each males’s and ladies’s wage pots went up by about 25% within the newest improve and ladies’s salaries alone elevated by £800,000 in 2023.
An ECB spokesperson added: “Within the males’s sport, the most recent improve was weighted in direction of the highest finish to be able to be aggressive within the international market.
“Within the girls’s sport, the rise was unfold throughout the wage bands as a result of we have to make extra progress throughout the board.”
The PCA report did spotlight the common wage of a girls’s participant has elevated from £8,000 in 2021 to £29,100 for this 12 months’s competitors, with the bottom wage band up 278% to £10,000 from £3,600 4 years in the past.
Moreover, there was a 364% development within the general Hundred price range pot from 2021 as the recognition of the ladies’s sport grows – 320,000 individuals watched girls’s video games stay in The Hundred in 2024, up from 267,000 within the first 12 months of the competitors.
