ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 Prize Money: The ICC took a historic step on Tuesday (September 17) and announced that the winning team of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 will be given prize money equal to the winning team of the Men’s T20 World Cup 2024. Let us tell you that this decision was taken at the ICC’s annual conference in July, and has now been implemented.
The Prize money for ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024
The winner of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 will get prize money of about Rs 19.6 crore. The ICC announced the prize money of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 on Tuesday and said that the winning team of the tournament that will be played in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be given a prize money of US $ 2.34 million.
In the last Women’s T20 World Cup i.e. 2023, the winning team Australia was given a prize money of US $ 1 million, which has been increased by about 134% in this edition.
The prize money of the runner-up team has also more than doubled. The ICC has also more than doubled the prize money for the runner-up team of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2024. However, in the last edition, the runner-up team South Africa was given a prize money of 5 lakh US dollars, this time a prize money of 1.17 million US dollars will be given. The prize money of the runner-up team has been increased by 134%.
Prize money for semi-finalist teams increased more than three times. In this edition, the prize money of both the semi-finalist teams (teams losing semi-finals) has been increased three times. While in the last edition, the semi-finalist teams were given US $ 210,000. This time both the semi-finalist teams will get US $ 675,000.
Overall prize money also increased more than three times. The ICC has increased the overall prize money of the Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 by more than three times compared to last time. In 2023, the overall prize money was US $ 2.45 million, while in this edition the total prize money will be US $ 7,958,080. Let us tell you that this is the first time that all the prize money of the Men’s T20 World Cup and Women’s T20 World Cup has been equalized.
ICC Womens T20 World Cup 2024 Prize Money: Winners of individual matches and teams eliminated from the group stage will also get a hefty amount
The International Cricket Council has informed that the teams winning individual matches during the group stage will get a prize money of US$ 31,154. Apart from this, the prize pool of US$ 1.35 million will be divided among the 6 teams eliminated before the semi-finals based on their ranking. In 2023, this prize pool was US$ 180,000 and was divided equally, but this time it is not so.
For example, the teams finishing third or fourth in their group will get US$ 270,000, while the teams finishing fifth in their respective groups will get US$ 135,000. Let us tell you that 10 teams are participating in this Women’s T20 World Cup and they have been divided into two groups of 5 each. After the group stage ends, the top 2-2 teams from both the groups will make it to the semi-finals, while 3-3 teams, i.e. a total of 6 teams will be eliminated from the tournament.
The ICC said in a statement on Women’s T20 World Cup 2024
‘This move of the ICC is in accordance with the strategy to prioritize women’s sports and accelerate its development by 2032. Teams will now get one type of prize money for one type of finishing position in one type of events and also one type of amount for winning matches in those events. The prize money of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 event is higher only due to the participation of 10 additional teams and playing 32 more matches’
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