{"id":31725,"date":"2026-04-13T15:53:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31725"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:53:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:53:04","slug":"womens-t20-world-cup-to-have-8-8-million-prize-pool","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/womens-t20-world-cup-to-have-8-8-million-prize-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup to have $8.8 million prize pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This year&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Twenty20 World Cup will have a tournament-record prize pool of $8.8 million with the \u200bwinners set to earn $2.3 million, the International Cricket \u200cCouncil (ICC) said this Monday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 12-team competition will be held in England and Wales from June 12, with New Zealand \u200bset to defend the maiden title they won \u200bin 2024.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The runners-up will receive $1.17 million. Both losing \u2060semi-finalists will earn $675 000 each,&#8221; the ICC said in \u200ba statement, adding that every participating team was guaranteed \u200ba minimum prize of $248 000.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The prize pool will be smaller than those at the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s World Cups held in the \u200bIndian subcontinent in the last three years.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Last year&#8217;s \u200b50-over Women&#8217;s World Cup in India and Sri Lanka had a \u200cprize \u2060pool of $13.9 million, the highest pot at an ICC event, and a 297% increase from its previous edition in 2022. Champions India took home $4.5 million.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 2023 \u200bedition of \u200bthe men&#8217;s \u206050-over World Cup, held in India, had a prize pot of $10 million, while this \u200byear&#8217;s men&#8217;s T20 World Cup in India \u200band \u2060Sri Lanka offered $11.25 million in prize money.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The continued rise of women\u2019s cricket through increased investment and opportunity reflects \u2060the \u200bgrowing influence and impact of \u200bfemale athletes on the global stage,&#8221; the ICC&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer Sanjog Gupta said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14169,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-31725","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The 12-team competition will be held in England and Wales from June 12","published_date":"","news_description":"The 12-team competition will be held in England and Wales from June 12","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31726,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31725\/revisions\/31726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}