Women's T20 World Cup prize money: Women will get equal rewards as men for winning the T20 World Cup, know how much will be the prize money?

The ICC has announced the prize money for the Women's T20 World Cup. The big news is that women will get equal rewards as men for winning the T20 World Cup. The ICC announced that the team that wins the Women's T20 World Cup will now get 23 lakh 40 thousand US dollars, which is Rs 19 crore, 59 lakh. Team India got the same amount of money for becoming the champion of the T20 World Cup 2024. Team India defeated South Africa in the T20 World Cup final.

ICC's big decision before Women's T20 World Cup

The Women's T20 World Cup is starting from October 3. This tournament has been shifted from Bangladesh to UAE. The ICC announced that the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2024 will be the first ICC tournament in which women will get equal prize money as men, which will be a significant achievement in the history of this game. The winner of the last Women's T20 World Cup received US $ 1 million.

The decision to have equal match fees for both men's and women's T20 World Cups was taken in July 2023. The ICC decided to equalize the prize money at the annual conference seven years ahead of the previously scheduled 2030 schedule. In this way, cricket has become the first major sport in which the World Cup has equal prize money for men and women.

The winning team of the Women's T20 World Cup will get $23,70,000, while the runner-up team will get a prize money of $11,70,000. Last year, the runner-up South Africa team got five lakh dollars. In this way, there has been an increase of 134 percent in this as well. The teams losing in the Women's T20 World Cup semi-finals will now get $675,000, which is more than $210,000 in 2023. In this way, the total prize money of the tournament will be $7,958,080, which is 225 percent more than last year's total amount of $24,50,000. The teams eliminated from the group stage in the Women's T20 World Cup will get $31,154, while the 6 teams failing to reach the semi-finals will get prize money from a total amount of $13,50,000 based on their final position.