Bollywood stars Taapsee Pannu and Anushka Sharma on Thursday welcomed the BCCI’s landmark determination of equal match charge for its centrally-contracted feminine and male gamers in a bid to advertise gender equality in cricket. As per the newly launched system, the Indian ladies cricketers will now obtain Rs 15 lakh per Check, Rs 6 lakh per ODI, and Rs 3 lakh per T20I, the identical as their male counterparts.
Earlier, the ladies gamers acquired Rs 1 lakh every for ODIs and T20Is whereas the match charge for a Check match was Rs 4 lakh.
Taapsee, who performed former Indian captain Mithali Raj within the 2022 movie Shaabash Mithu, expressed her gratitude in the direction of the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) “An enormous step in the direction of equal pay for equal work. Thanks BCCI for main with instance,” the actor wrote on Twitter.
Taking to Instagram Tales, Anushka shared the screenshot of BCCI secretary Jay Shah’s tweet and reacted to the publish with three clapping emojis. The actor is about to play former pacer Jhulan Goswami within the upcoming movie Chakda Xpress.
Filmmaker Onir shared a hyperlink of a information report in regards to the announcement on Twitter and urged the India movie fraternity to comply with swimsuit. “Implausible…. Now hope the Indian movie Trade takes a cue and learns (sic),” he wrote.
Lately, the Indian ladies’s cricket workforce triumphed within the Asia Cup in Bangladesh, beating Sri Lanka by eight wickets. The workforce additionally received the nation’s first-ever silver medal in cricket on the Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham earlier this yr.
Within the final Annual Common Assembly (AGM) of the BCCI, the cricket board additionally introduced the first-ever ladies’s IPL that’s scheduled to happen subsequent yr. Earlier this yr, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) had struck a cope with the nation’s gamers’ affiliation, which enabled the ladies cricketers to earn as a lot because the male gamers, whereas Cricket Australia (CA) can be working to eliminate gender disparity. India thus turned solely the second nation in worldwide cricket to implement equal pay.