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\nNew Zealand White Ferns team celebrates with the trophy, ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Final, Dubai, 2024.
\nPhoto: PHOTOSPORT\n<\/p>\n
This year’s Women’s Twenty20 World Cup will have a tournament\u2011record prize pool of US$15 million (NZ$25.5m), with the winners set to earn US$3.9m (NZ$6.6m), the International Cricket Council (ICC) said.<\/p>\n
The 12\u2011team competition will be held in England and Wales from 12 June, with New Zealand set to defend the maiden title they won in 2024.<\/p>\n
The White Ferns received US$3.9m (NZ$6.6m) when they won in Dubai in 2024.<\/p>\n
“The runners\u2011up will receive US$1.17m (NZ$2m). Both losing semi\u2011finalists will earn US$675,000 (NZ$1.15m) each,” the ICC said in a statement, adding that every participating team was guaranteed a minimum prize of US$248,000 (NZ$420,000).<\/p>\n
The prize pool will be smaller than those at the men’s and women’s World Cups held in the Indian subcontinent in the last three years.<\/p>\n
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\nEden Carson of New Zealand celebrates with teammate Georgia Plimmer after defeating South Africa during the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Final 2024.
\nPhoto: Francois Nel\/Getty Images\n<\/p>\n
Last year’s 50\u2011over Women’s World Cup in India and Sri Lanka had a prize pool of US$13.9m (NZ$23.6m), the highest pot at an ICC event, and a 297 percent increase from its previous edition in 2022. Champions India took home US$4.5m (NZ$7.7m).<\/p>\n
The 2023 edition of the men’s 50\u2011over World Cup, held in India, had a prize pot of US$10m (NZ$17m), while this year’s men’s T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka offered US$11.25m (NZ$19.1m) in prize money.<\/p>\n
“The continued rise of women’s cricket through increased investment and opportunity reflects the growing influence and impact of female athletes on the global stage,” the ICC’s CEO Sanjog Gupta said.<\/p>\n
– Reuters, with additional reporting from RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand White Ferns team celebrates with the trophy, ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Final, Dubai, 2024. Photo:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-377778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}