Australian Women’s Cricketers Exceed $1m In Earnings – With More Riches On The Horizon

Five of Australia’s all-conquering squad group for a showdown against hosts India successful nan women’s cricket World Cup semi-final connected Thursday person surged done nan period of $1m yearly earnings, arsenic nan increasing financial opportunities successful nan world crippled attack and moreover transcend nan worth of Cricket Australia contracts.

That group mightiness soon grow too, fixed an Indian Women’s Premier League “mega auction” is scheduled for November. The Australians – who person won 3 of nan past 4 world T20 titles and are defending 50-over champions – are group to pull important liking from nan 5 franchises, each of which person astir $2.6m to walk for nan month-long tournament.

Australian Cricketers’ Association main executive Paul Marsh said he expected women’s salaries to proceed to grow. “It’s healthy, it tin connection much and much players those sorts of opportunities, because that intends we’ve sewage a amended chance of securing nan champion athletes successful nan country.”

While nan net of individual athletes stay private, Ellyse Perry’s semipermanent endorsements pinch brands specified arsenic Adidas, Commonwealth Bank, Fox Sports and Weet-Bix person made her Australia’s highest earner for overmuch of her 18-year career. Those sponsorships and nan money paid nether her Cricket Australia statement are now being complemented by important franchise earnings.

Perry collected astir $300,000 for her 8 matches pinch Royal Challengers Bengaluru this twelvemonth according to nationalist auction results, and different $130,000 for her stint successful nan Hundred successful nan UK. Ash Gardner was nan second-highest paid subordinate successful nan 2025 WPL down only Indian prima Smriti Mandhana, and earned astir $550,000 for her 9 matches pinch Gujarat Giants. Annabel Sutherland accrued adjacent to $350,000 pinch nan Delhi Capitals, and was different – for illustration Perry and Gardner – connected nan highest net tier successful nan Hundred.

Captain Alyssa Healy is besides apt to beryllium astatine aliases adjacent to nan million-dollar people annually, arsenic is Beth Mooney, who earned almost $350,000 successful nan WPL alone. Emerging players will soon participate this precocious echelon too, including Phoebe Litchfield and Georgia Voll – whose 99 earlier this twelvemonth tied nan WPL’s highest score.

When nan latest Cricket Australia salary woody was struck pinch nan players successful 2023, it was expected by 2027 nan women’s team’s top-earner – past reported to beryllium Meg Lanning – would gain $800,000, while nan adjacent half twelve highest earners would beryllium connected astir $500,000. Playing income for nan starring men’s player, Pat Cummins is astir $3m, connected apical of his net from franchise cricket including astir $3.7m from Sunrisers Hyderabad.

The BBL privatisation process is apt to trigger a renegotiation of that agreement, and Marsh will proceed to “push everyone forward” towards gender equity. However, a privilege will besides beryllium managing nan beingness demands of an progressively crowded schedule. “Whilst location are not arsenic galore home T20 leagues successful women’s cricket arsenic location are arsenic successful men’s, nan reality of it is, nan players tin only play truthful much,” he said.

Cameron Richardson, who has managed Australian leg-spinner Alana King for a decade, said nan scenery has changed “inexorably” successful caller years. King was picked up successful past year’s WPL auction by nan UP Warriorz but only played a azygous match, and she will participate adjacent month’s auction arsenic a free supplier pursuing an outstanding World Cup performance. She has taken nan third-most wickets successful nan competition, and her 7-18 against South Africa were nan champion figures successful tourney history.

Richardson has been moving pinch UK cricket guidance patient TGI Sport to thief link King pinch nan champion opportunities successful nan WPL during what he said tin go a “random” auction process. “Let’s beryllium honest, nan Australian cricketers are nan champion performers connected nan astir accordant squad successful world cricket, truthful you would for illustration to deliberation that successful this auction process they will proceed to beryllium nan case, but there’s nary guarantee of that,” he said.

Although franchise opportunities are progressively remunerative, Richardson said King’s privilege is still nan Australian team. “We dainty nan WPL arsenic a bonus,” he said. “If it happens, it happens. If it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen, because her privilege – perfectly 100% – is to her country.”