New Zealand Cricket – New Zealand captain Sophie Devine said the new pay deal was “a huge step forward” for the women’s game. Photo: Sanka Vidanagama/AFP/Getty Images
New Zealand cricketers will be paid the same as their male counterparts after a “landmark deal” was reached to close the gender pay gap across all formats and competitions.
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From August 1, the women’s national team and domestic players will receive the same match fees as the men as part of a five-year agreement reached between New Zealand Cricket, the six major clubs and the players’ association. .
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It is the first time that the professional areas of men and women have been combined in one agreement, with the new figures calculated from all the revenues expected by the NZC on the agreement process, the proportion of which – which is $ 104 million expected – is for him enough professional players.
It means the top White Ferns player can earn a maximum of $163,246 a year, up from $83,432, while the top female domestic players can earn a maximum of $19,146 (up from $3,423). ).
While the men’s national team players will be paid the same match fees for T20I and ODI matches as the women, they are also likely to earn more, based on the higher number of matches played. we do, the format of the competition and the time spent training and playing.
That means the top Black Caps players can earn up to $523,396, while the top-ranked men’s players will be in line to earn a maximum of $102,707.
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But White Ferns captain Sophie Devine said the deal was a game changer for women’s cricket and would encourage others to take up the sport.
“It’s fantastic for international and domestic players to be recognized in the same agreement, alongside the men,” Devine said. “It’s a big step forward and will be a big draw card for women and young women.”
The agreement also sees an increase from 54 to 72 in the total number of domestic women’s contracts – including restrictive contracts that leave players free to maintain other work or training commitments – and an increase in annual contracts from nine to 12 for a group.
It also seeks to ensure that women’s cricketers are on an equal footing with men in touring and residential teams, and a wider playing and training environment. Pregnancy and child care provisions contained in existing contracts are maintained.
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Devine’s opposite number in the men’s national team, Kane Williamson, said the new deal could help secure the future of the game in New Zealand.
“It’s really important for current players to build on the legacy of those who came before us, and to support tomorrow’s players, men and women, at all levels,” he said. “This agreement goes a long way toward achieving that.” “Holy shit, this is the best day of my life.” Nothing distilled New Zealand’s World Cup esprit de corps better than Jimmy Neesham’s tweet after a six from Grant Elliott – the man who squeezed him out of the team – took New Zealand to its first World Cup final. The moment speaks volumes about Neesham’s character. It shows the harmony cultivated by Mike Hesson and Brendon McCullum, under which the team has completed a remarkable turnaround.
In December 2012, a disgraced Ross Taylor resigned as Test captain, having previously announced that he would no longer captain ODIs and T20s. In McCullum’s first Test as full-time captain next month, New Zealand were bowled out for 45 against South Africa, also failing 20 overs. Nor is it an isolated disgrace: New Zealand have slipped to ninth in the ODI rankings, below Bangladesh. However, within three years, the team has not only reached the World Cup final, but has, with a 1-1 draw in England this summer, completed an unbeaten run of seven test series, the best in history. account of New Zealand. All of which puts McCullum’s success into perspective.
However, this is a much deeper story than McCullum’s side. They are actually smaller than New Zealand itself.
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New Zealand is a country of 4.5 million, where competitive cricket is not so much a national sport but, in rugby union, a national religion. A look at the NZC, ECB and ICC figures shows that New Zealand has one eighth as many cricketers as England, and not even twice as many as Scotland. However they hold, along with their Tasman rivals, the record for World Cup final appearances: seven in 11 matches (including three in the last three). Per capita, New Zealand has always been the best performing team in world cricket – and by some distance.
To an Englishman visiting for the first time, New Zealand does not seem halfway around the world. Of course, the landscapes are incomparably less beautiful, and the fauna less large: there are no Agia, kiwi or blue penguins in England, alas. But there are similarities everywhere. Taylor Swift’s voice is everywhere. The architecture has strong British hallmarks – particularly McCullum’s city of Dunedin, which is modeled on Edinburgh. Street names proclaim New Zealand’s British heritage all the time. The country is run by those who not only have an Anglo-Saxon heritage, but are often trained in Great Britain: in education at an elite British University is considered a rite of passage for leading Kiwi politicians. Unsurprisingly, the Houses of Parliament bear a striking resemblance to the British Parliament. The main difference in food is that New Zealanders pronounce chips as “chups”.
Sport has always been an important part of New Zealand society. When Charles Darwin stopped briefly in the Bay of Islands in 1835, he saw a game of cricket.
But in a way New Zealand is very, very different. Class is a marginalized part of British society, and cricket is not immune: the national team is increasingly dependent on the 7% of the population who attend private schools. “Class is a word we use when we look at societies from afar – it’s not one that really comes to mind here,” notes Lindsay Crocker, head of New Zealand Cricket.
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“No one worked harder than Brendon McCullum in Dunedin,” said John Bracewell, New Zealand’s coach between 2003 and 2008. “But no one gives a damn where he’s from. It’s a source of pride throughout the country that there’s a job
With so many famous athletes, the more we see the less we know. During the World Cup, McCullum adorned almost every ATM and featured in the ubiquitous TV ad imploring viewers to: “Dream big, New Zealand.” Yet there is a fundamental interest in Brendon, as the Kiwis call him – the contrast with the British who refer to Wayne Rooney by his surname is instructive. A taxi driver in Dunedin is good friends with McCullum’s father, Stuart. Another, in Christchurch, sent her children to the same primary school the McCullum children attended, and they attended family barbecues.
Jonathan Coleman, New Zealand’s sports minister, who has lived in England for nine years said: “It’s very different to sports in the UK – you just don’t get to see international sports in the flesh like that. “We see all our sports stars – they travel on the same planes, go to the same bars, eat in the same restaurants, and live in the same neighborhood.” To Mike, a taxi driver in Nelson, “Cricketers are not treated like rock stars – they are just normal people.” Almost every city has famous sports children, and the effect is to make sports people easy to identify with, to generate the belief that anyone with strength and integrity can rise to the top.
New Zealand teams also have no rankings. “If there’s a bag to be picked or some small task to be done in the team, the hope is, and without any push from the players, that everyone will help themselves,” Crocker said. If they are easy to write off as glib words, they are justified by the New Zealand field, a traditional force that rose to new heights under McCullum.
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“He was the first to dive into a table,” Bracewell said. The impact can be seen not only in the incredible play of pace bowlers Trent Boult and Tim Southee, but also in the progress of the senior members of the team, led by Daniel Vettori’s outstanding one-handed catch. against’ the West Indies in the quarter of the World Cup. final
During the 1980s, the team often had only two or three professional players: John Wright compared a local agreement to “winning the lottery”.
It’s true that Richard Hadlee once said, “The only thing that really gets me going is math.” But this Hadlee is unusual. Compared to England, according to Bracewell, Kiwi cricket “has a more altruistic appeal because we don’t go through performance statistics. We’re not like one person.
