Women cricketers to get prize money this week

India was led by Harmanpreet Kaur at the marquee event, where it lost to Australia in the final.

“The members of the Indian women’s cricket team will be getting the share of their prize money by the end of this week. The transactions have been processed and I am expecting that they will receive their share very soon,” the senior board functionary said.

Asked about the delay, he said: “We received the prize money amount late last year.” The processing of players’ payments in BCCI does take around three to four months for all teams (across age groups).

However, since last year, the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai have remained shut due to the COVID-19 situation across the country leading to delay in payments all across.

“It is not just one payment for women. Whether it is the central contract of the men’s team, international match fees, domestic fees of men and women, everything is taking a bit of time because of the prevailing situation,” a former BCCI office-bearer, still associated with a state unit, said.

He further informed: “In this case, you need to check when did the BCCI receive the payments. If the Board received just after the tournament, then it is a delay but processing does take some time. And to the best of my knowledge, it is the same for both men and women.”