ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024: Pakistan players continue to wait for unpaid four months salary, find out the reasons behind the delay

New Delhi: The Pakistan women’s cricket team kicked off their T20 World Cup 2024 journey on Thursday, October 3, with a match against Sri Lanka. However, the team will be taking the field with heavy hearts due to a shameful situation. The players have not received their salaries for the past four months, despite being under contract with the board for 23 months starting from August 1, 2023. The last payment was made in June 2024, and the players are now facing financial difficulties. The contract was supposed to run until June 30, 2025, with a scheduled evaluation at the end of the 12-month period. Unfortunately, the evaluation is still pending, and there have been no updates or announcements regarding the players' salaries.

The PCB official said to Cricbuzz:

“It is a work in progress. As soon as the lists are finalized and approved, contracts will be offered with effect from 1 July 2024.”

In this situation, PCB should pay DA, but the allowance for the camp held in Multan before the home series against South Africa was not given. However, the supporting staff in the camp got an allowance for this. Pakistan’s men’s team has also been getting salary delays for the last four months. However, it is understood that the reasons for the delay in salary of the men’s team and the women’s team are different. No voice has been raised by the women cricketers of Pakistan regarding the salary, but if this kind of behaviour happens then obviously the players will enter the field reluctantly.

Pay disparity:

Pakistan’s women cricketers get the lowest salary among the full member nations. Even Pakistan is the fourth richest cricket board in the world. There is parity in the match fees of male and female cricketers of India, England and New Zealand. South Africa and West Indies are also going to join this list soon. However, this is not the case with Pakistan. The reason behind this is that there is no players association in Pakistan, which fights for their rights.