India & Pakistan Women Domestic Cricketers Match Fee: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has recently made a major change in the match fees for women domestic players, which is considered a big step to promote women’s cricket. Now at the senior level, in long format i.e. multi-day and ODI matches, the playing eleven players will get Rs 50,000 per day, while the reserve players will be given Rs 25,000 per match. In T20 matches, the playing eleven players will be paid Rs 25,000 and the players on the bench will be paid Rs 12,500.
BCCI doubles the match fees of domestic women cricketers
The increase in match fees of domestic women cricketers by BCCI is more than double than before, because earlier senior women players used to get Rs 20,000 and reserves Rs 10,000 for joining the playing eleven. Parity has been maintained in junior tournaments also. Here in multi-day or ODI matches, the playing eleven will be given Rs 25,000 per day and the reserves will be given Rs 12,500. In T20, the playing eleven will get Rs 12,500 and the players sitting on the bench will get Rs 6,250. This change will provide financial security to domestic women cricketers as well as inspiration to young players choosing sports as a career.
Domestic women cricketers in Pakistan have very low salaries
Female domestic cricketers in Pakistan have very low salaries. The match fee there is only 20,000 Pakistani rupees (about 6,400 Indian rupees) per match, which is very low compared to Indian fees. This amount reduces even further at the junior level. In domestic cricket, contract players get only 35,000 Pakistani rupees (about 11,200 Indian rupees) as monthly retainer, due to which there is a huge difference in the salary of Pakistani domestic women cricketers compared to the match fees of Indian domestic women cricketers.
PCB cuts salaries of domestic women cricketers
Pakistan had hosted the Champions Trophy earlier this year (2025), after this tournament the condition of the Pakistan Cricket Board had deteriorated. Because of which he had cut the salaries of the players. The match fee of Pakistan’s domestic women cricketers was earlier 25,000 Pakistani rupees, but this year the Pakistan Cricket Board reduced the salary to 20,000 Pakistani rupees, which was a big blow for the women cricketers there.
