Women’s Odie World Cup 2025 Prize Money: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced prize money for the Women’s Cricket World Cup to be held in India and Sri Lanka. The ICC confirmed on Monday that it was an increase of 297 percent from the prize money of $ 3.5 million played in New Zealand in 2022. This prize pool has also crossed the total prize money of $ 10 million of the Men’s World Cup held in India in 2023. The tournament will be played in India and Sri Lanka from 30 September to 2 November. It will start from the match between hosts India and Sri Lanka.
The ICC said in a release, “The increased prize money is in line with the ICC strategy to focus on the development of women’s cricket. The ICC Women’s T20 World Cup was decided before 2024.” The ICC has announced a 3.88 million prize money of US $ 13.88 million.
The winners of the 13th edition of the tournament being played at five places in Guwahati, Indore, Navi Mumbai and Visakhapatnam in India and Colombo in Sri Lanka will get US $ 4.48 million (Rs 39.55 crore). This is an increase of 239 percent from $ 1.32 million to Australia three years ago. The winners of the men’s World Cup received $ 4 million.
At the same time, the runner-up team will get US $ 2.24 million (Rs 19.77 crore), which is an increase of $ 600,000 to 273 percent three years ago. Two teams losing in the semi -finals will get US $ 1.12 million (Rs 9.88 crore).
On winning every group-stage match, teams will get US $ 34,314. Fifth and sixth -ranked teams will get US $ 700,000, while the seventh and eighth -ranked teams will get $ 280,000. Each participating team has been guaranteed at least 250,000 US dollars.
The increase in prize money of women’s cricket has been done to inspire the next generation players. Women’s cricket is moving towards a magnificent height and this step will speed up this speed. ICC chairman Jai Shah said that this is another big step towards giving priority to women cricket. He said that this is a decisive milestone in the journey of women’s cricket. Four -fold increase shows our commitment to the long -term growth of this game. Our message is clear. Women cricketers should be confident that if they choose it professionally, then they will get equal respect and pay parity and salaries and prizes.