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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Most ODI CENTURIES : In the world of fast paced white ball cricket, there are core ODI cricket fans who crave for the subtle and smooth flow of game which gives them the satisfaction of seeing the best of batsman and bowlers throughout the game as the format is longer than the other white ball formats.

Along with that ODI cricket is also not as long as Test cricket so the result are declared on the same day and keeps the hardcore fans engaged to itself till the end. Although with the rise of T20 (Twenty overs) format the amount of entertainment and fans have shifted to more of the franchise cricket tournaments or leagues.

Let’s have a look at all the batting position from start to end, to know about the players who scored most ODI centuries at their respective position.

No. 1 Batting position

Sachin Tendulkar holds record for scoring the most ODI centuries at number one position with a total of 4 centuries. The master blaster of cricket has scored a ton of centuries in his cricket career and a total of 18,000+ runs in his cricket career which is the highest in the world.

Sachin’s straight drive was the best among all the batsman and still remains the same till date through which scored and smashed tons of fours to the pacers in the powerplay. His first century came against Australia in 1994 where he made 110 runs in the innings and his last century came in against Bangladesh at Mirpur which was his 100th international ton.

No. 2 Batting position

Rohit Sharma, the explosive right handed batsman of India who has scored a total of 29 ODI centuries and comes just after the Sachin for the most ODI centuries as well. Rohit led the team India to lift the T20 World Cup 2024 and was also very close to lifting the ODI World Cup 2023 but unfortunately the Rohit Sharma and co. got lost against Australia who silenced the crowd full of Indian fans in the stadium by their stellar performance.

No. 3 Batting position

Virat Kohli hold the position for scoring the most ODI centuries at no. 3 batting position. Virat has played an exceptional cricket in his cricket career where he lacked from his form for around a 1000 days but the day he got his form back, he started smashing runs like a beast.

He has scored a total of 43 centuries and currently there is no one near his position to compete with him for this record. He was awarded the man of the tournament in ODI World Cup 2023 and also won the Orange Cap for making the runs in IPL.

No. 4 Batting position

At number we have Ross Taylor from New Zealand, the skipper who took the batting standard of New Zealand in longer formats of cricket to the greater level. He has smashed nineteen ODI centuries at this batting position and initially there no active player near that record. At 2nd place in this queue of this record we have Ab de Viliers with over 15 ODI centuries.

No. 5 Batting position

The left handed saviour of India who fought from cancer not from the bed of hospital or home but between the 22 yards of pith facing ruthless bowlers like Brett Lee, Dale Steyn and Amir. Yuvraj Singh is known for his famous six sixes in an over against Stuart Broad in 2007, though he also hold this record by scoring a total of 7 centuries at number 5 batting position.

No. 6 Batting position

The skipper from England who has scored centuries at all batting position and is a versatile batsman in white ball cricket. He has scored a total of 4 ODI centuries at number 6 batting position and currently opens for the England, Jos Buttler also known as ‘Jos the boss’.

No. 7 Batting position

This record is shared between Ms Dhoni and Micheal Bracewell. Ms Dhoni is the most successfull captain of India and in the world as well. He has lifted 3 ICC trophies in his span of captaincy and he still played for the country after being removed from captaincy.

Michael Bracewell is an active player from New Zealand, who can break this record by surpassing the two ODI centuries he has scored till now which is same as Ms Dhoni.

No. 8 Batting position

This record is backed by two players from Ireland and Bangladesh, Simmi Singh and Mehidy Hasan Miraz each have scored one century in their cricket career at the batting position no. 8 which is the most ODI centuries scored at this batting down.

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