After nine years of struggle, the Indian women cricketers finally heave a sigh of relief. The Women’s Cricket Association of India merged with the BCCI in 2006 and since then all eyes have been on the BCCI to give a fillip to women’s cricket in India.
The BCCI have finally made the decision of providing central contracts to the women cricketers. Just like their male counterparts, the female cricketers are subject to the Grade system. Out of the 11 India players, four of them fall in Grade A while the remaining seven are in Grade B. Grade A players like skipper Mithali Raj, vice captain Harmanpreet Kaur, India’s premium pace bowler Jhulan Goswami and India’s opening batswoman Thirushkamini are all in Grade A. They are entitled to receive a handsome sum of 15 lakhs rupees for the season 2015-16. Mumbai’s Poonam Raut, southpaw Smriti Mandana, spinner Rajeswari Gayakwad, leg spinner Poonam Yadav, left arm spinner Ekta Bist, leg break bowler Veda Krishnamurthy, medium pace bowler Niranjana Nagarajan are the Grade B players. A contract of 10 lakhs rupees is given to them. This is an encouraging step taken by the BCCI for the growth and development of women’s cricket in India. This move will definitely motivate more and more girls to take up cricket as a career.
The BCCI has certainly applied some fairness cream to whiten the women’s cricket in the country.
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