England captain Heather Knight has criticised the disparity between males’s and girls’s salaries in The Hundred.
The hole in pay between the highest males’s and girls’s gamers has widened from £75,000 to £135,000 for this yr’s competitors.
Prime degree males’s gamers will see their pay improve by 60% to £200,000, whereas main ladies’s salaries are rising 30% to £65,000, as a part of an general 25% rise throughout all wage bands.
Within the lowest-earning class, males will probably be paid £31,000, up from £30,000 in 2024, whereas ladies will earn £10,000, up from £8,000.
“It is nice to see the general pot for the ladies has gone up but it surely seems to be dangerous when the disparity between the highest males’s and girls’s salaries continues to develop when it needs to be coming down,” stated Knight.
“There’s an enormous amount of cash coming into the sport so we need to see that the entire recreation is benefitting.
“You don’t need that hole to widen, you need to proceed to make progress.”
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) stated each males’s and girls’s wage pots had been raised by round 25% within the newest improve and that girls’s salaries alone elevated by £800,000 in 2023.
An ECB spokesperson added: “Within the males’s recreation, the most recent improve was weighted in the direction of the highest finish as a way to be aggressive within the international market.
“Within the ladies’s recreation, the rise was unfold throughout the wage bands as a result of we have to make extra progress throughout the board.”
