Bollywood stars Taapsee Pannu and Anushka Sharma on Thursday welcomed the BCCI’s landmark resolution of equivalent fit charge for its centrally-contracted male and female avid gamers in a bid to advertise gender equality in cricket. As according to the newly offered device, the Indian girls cricketers will now obtain Rs 15 lakh according to Check, Rs 6 lakh according to ODI, and Rs 3 lakh according to T20I, the similar as their male opposite numbers.
Previous, the ladies avid gamers gained Rs 1 lakh each and every for ODIs and T20Is whilst the fit charge for a Check fit was once Rs 4 lakh.
Taapsee, who performed former Indian captain Mithali Raj within the 2022 movie Shaabash Mithu, expressed her gratitude against the Board of Keep watch over for Cricket in India (BCCI) “An enormous step against equivalent pay for equivalent paintings. Thanks BCCI for main with instance,” the actor wrote on Twitter.
Taking to Instagram Tales, Anushka shared the screenshot of BCCI secretary Jay Shah’s tweet and reacted to the put up with 3 clapping emojis. The actor is about to play former pacer Jhulan Goswami within the upcoming movie Chakda Xpress.
Filmmaker Onir shared a hyperlink of a information file concerning the announcement on Twitter and instructed the India movie fraternity to apply go well with. “Unbelievable…. Now hope the Indian movie Trade takes a cue and learns (sic),” he wrote.
Not too long ago, the Indian girls’s cricket workforce triumphed within the Asia Cup in Bangladesh, beating Sri Lanka by means of 8 wickets. The workforce additionally gained the rustic’s first-ever silver medal in cricket on the Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham previous this 12 months.
Within the remaining Annual Basic Assembly (AGM) of the BCCI, the cricket board additionally introduced the first-ever girls’s IPL this is scheduled to happen subsequent 12 months. Previous this 12 months, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) had struck a care for the rustic’s avid gamers’ affiliation, which enabled the ladies cricketers to earn up to the male avid gamers, whilst Cricket Australia (CA) may be running to eliminate gender disparity. India thus turned into handiest the second one nation in world cricket to put into effect equivalent pay.