Taapsee Pannu, Anushka Sharma praise BCCI’s decision of equal pay for men and women | Cricket News

MUMBAI: Bollywood stars Taapsee Pannu and Anushka Sharma on Thursday welcomed the BCCI’s landmark decision of equal match fee for its centrally contracted female and male players in a bid to promote gender equality in cricket.
As per the newly introduced system, the Indian women cricketers will now receive Rs 15 lakh per Test, Rs 6 lakh per ODI and Rs 3 lakh per T20I, the same as their male counterparts.

Earlier, the women players received Rs 1 lakh each for ODIs and T20Is, while the match fee for a Test match was Rs 4 lakh.
Taapsee, who played former Indian captain Mithali Raj in the 2022 movie”Shabash Mithu“, expressed her gratitude to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
“A big step towards equal pay for equal work. Thank you BCCI for leading by example,” the actor wrote on Twitter.

On Instagram Stories, Anushka shared the screenshot of BCCI Secretary Jay Shah‘s tweet and responded to the post with three slap emojis. The actor will play the former pacer Jhulan Goswami in the upcoming movie”Chakda Xpress“.

Filmmaker Onir shared a link of a news report on the announcement on Twitter and urged the Indian film fraternity to follow suit.
“Fantastic…. Now hope the Indian film Industry takes a cue and learns (sic),” he wrote.
Recently, the Indian women’s cricket team triumphed in the Asia Cup in Bangladesh, beating Sri Lanka by eight wickets. The team also won the country’s first ever silver medal in cricket at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham earlier this year.
In the last Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the BCCI, the cricket board also announced the first ever women’s IPL scheduled next year.
Earlier this year, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) struck a deal with the country’s players’ association, allowing women’s cricketers to earn as much as the men’s players, while Cricket Australia (CA) is also working to close the gender gap to do. .
India thus became only the second country in international cricket to implement equal pay.