Australian women cricketers get hefty pay rise

Meg Lanning

Australia's women cricketers secured a huge pay increase Monday, with the top contracted player on course to earn more than Aus$1 million (Rs 5.57 crore or US$666,000) a year. Payments for professional women will rise 66 per cent under a new five-year deal between Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers' Association.

They will share in a pool worth Aus$133 million, up from Aus$80 million in the previous agreement, rewarding not only members of Australia's world champion team but significantly increasing the value of Big Bash League and state contracts.

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According to the deal, the top CA contract holder who also has a WBBL contract - believed to be national captain Meg Lanning - could now earn more than Aus$800,000 a year. That could break the Aus$1 million mark with further earnings in India's Women's Premier League and The Hundred in England. "I am particularly pleased this MOU [memorandum of understanding] represents another major step forward in the rise of women's cricket," said CA chief Nick Hockley.

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