The Board of Control for Cricket in India has approved a revised pay structure that brings domestic women cricketers’ match fees at par with their male counterparts. The decision records a major step forward in the board’s push for pay parity.
The revised pay structure was cleared during the BCCI Apex Council meeting on Sunday and comes as an extension of the board’s equal pay policy introduced in 2022. At that time, the BCCI had announced equal match fees for India’s senior men’s and women’s national
teams. With this latest decision, the BCCI has expanded the scope of pay parity into domestic cricket, addressing a long-standing gap in earnings for women players at the grassroots and state level.
As per the new structure, women domestic cricketers playing one-day and multi-day matches will now earn INR 50,000 per day if they are part of the playing XI. Non-playing members or reserves will receive INR 25,000 per match. In the T20 format, players in the playing XI will be paid INR 25,000 per match, while reserves will earn INR 12,500.
This witnesses a massive jump from the existing structure, where senior women cricketers earned INR 20,000 per match in the playing XI and INR 10,000 for those on the bench. The increase effectively amounts to a 2.5 times hike in match fees across formats.
Junior women cricketers also brought under the revised framework
Junior women cricketers have also been brought under the revised framework. In junior 50-over and multi-day matches, players in the playing XI will now earn INR 25,000 per day, with reserves receiving INR 12,500. For junior T20 matches, the match fees have been revised to INR 12,500 for playing XI members and INR 6,250 for non-playing players.
The decision comes following India’s historic victory at the Women’s ODI World Cup in November 2025, where the senior women’s team clinched their first-ever World Cup title on home turf. The BCCI is keen to build on the momentum generated by that achievement and ensure sustained success by investing in the domestic structure.
