The cricket deals offered in India and recent financial developments in other sports are progress of a kind not seen before
Ash Gardner, along with fellow Australians Meg Lanning and Alyssa Healy, will play in the Women’s Premier League after being bought for huge sums in the inaugural auction.Ash Gardner, along with fellow Australians Meg Lanning and Alyssa Healy, will play in the Women’s Premier League after being bought for huge sums in the inaugural auction.Last modified on Tue 14 Feb 2023 06.
What a pleasant distraction it turned out to be. Lanning herself will be $192,000 richer for three weeks’ work with the Delhi Capitals. Her teammate, Ash Gardner, will earn three times that playing for the Gujarat Giants. The allrounder’s figure of $558,000 is more than Sam Kerr pockets in a season with Chelsea and more than the WNBA’s top earner, Jackie Young.If that sounds like a watershed moment, it’s perhaps because it is. And it is not the only one this past week.
In other words, things are happening in women’s sport. That is a sentence used quite a few times before. Like when 86,174 packed into the MCG for the 2020 Women’s T20 World Cup final, or in 2017 when people were still queueing at half-time to get into an already-full Princes Park to watch the inaugural AFLW match, or last November when the Women’s Rugby World Cup in New Zealand broke all-time attendance records.
The key difference here might be that these latest developments are of the cold, hard cash variety. The athletes themselves will see this kind of progress in their bank accounts, in part because of the other kinds that came before. When the US women’s football team won the World Cup in 2019 and generated more revenue than the US men’s team who earned four times what they did, they filed a wage discrimination act against US Soccer and won.
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