England captain Heather Knight has criticised the disparity between males’s and ladies’s salaries in The Hundred.
The hole in pay between the highest males’s and ladies’s gamers has widened from £75,000 to £135,000 for this yr’s competitors.
High degree males’s gamers will see their pay improve by 60% to £200,000, whereas main ladies’s salaries are rising 30% to £65,000, as a part of an general 25% rise throughout all wage bands.
Within the lowest-earning class, males will likely be paid £31,000, up from £30,000 in 2024, whereas ladies will earn £10,000, up from £8,000.
“It is nice to see the general pot for the ladies has gone up nevertheless it seems to be unhealthy when the disparity between the highest males’s and ladies’s salaries continues to develop when it needs to be coming down,” stated Knight.
“There’s an enormous amount of cash coming into the sport so we need to see that the entire recreation is benefitting.
“You don’t need that hole to widen, you need to proceed to make progress.”
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has been approached for remark.
Knight added the brand new tiered home set-up was an thrilling time for the ladies’s recreation as eight skilled groups merge with the lads’s counties.
The 33-year-old has signed for Somerset within the new system and was talking on the Skilled Cricketers’ Affiliation (PCA) annual normal assembly, the place Warwickshire bowler Oliver Hannon-Dalby was confirmed as PCA chair, changing Glamorgan’s James Harris.
Hannon-Dalby additionally stated The Hundred salaries is an space for enchancment to think about throughout his time within the position.
He stated: “The wage hole received larger this yr regardless of the ECB saying it could get smaller, so trying to enhance that within the coming yr or two will likely be an necessary factor.”
BBC Sport has contacted the ECB for remark.
