White Ferns captain Sophie Devine hopes pay equity will be a 'huge drawcard for women and girls' to play cricket. It’s six years since she released her Women and Cricket report into the bleak state of the game in New Zealand, when she feared female cricket was dying. The agreement provides our top women’s cricketers the same money for the same day’s work as their male counterparts for the first time in New Zealand cricket history. So NZ Cricket asked women and girls how they wanted to play cricket, not just delivering it the ‘way it’s always been done’. “If girls want to play rugby that’s great, but we’d love them to play cricket in summer, too.

Source: Stuff December 19, 2022 02:38 UTC