By Admin 
India’s women’s cricket team recently created history. Team India won the Women’s World Cup for the first time by defeating South Africa by 52 runs at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. After this victory, while the entire team is being showered with rewards, now the discussion has also intensified on the salary structure of BCCI. After all, how much are Indian women players paid and how different is it from the men’s team?
BCCI’s new contract system
BCCI released the Annual Player Retainership 2024–25 (Senior Women) in March 2025. In this, players are divided into three grades based on their performance. A, B and C.
Grade A – Rs 50 lakh annually
Three veteran players are included in this category – Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma. These three players are considered the backbone of India’s victory.
Grade B – Rs 30 lakh annually
This group includes four players, Renuka Thakur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh and Shafali Verma.
Grade C – Rs 10 lakh annually
A total of nine players have been included in this category, which include names like Radha Yadav, Amanjot Kaur, Uma Chhetri and Sneh Rana.
Equality in match fees, but less opportunities
Men and women players are now paid equal fees per match,
Test Match: 15 lakh rupees
ODI: 6 lakh rupees
T20: 3 lakh rupees
This change was implemented by BCCI in the year 2023, so that gender-based pay inequality can be eliminated and equal salary can be provided. However, one big difference still remains. The men’s team plays many times more matches than the women’s team, due to which their total earnings increase significantly.
Salary structure of men’s team
BCCI released Senior Men’s Annual Player Retainership 2024–25 in April 2025. In this, players are divided into four grades.
Grade A Plus : Rs 7 crore (including veterans like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah)
Grade A: Rs 5 crore
Grade B : Rs 3 crore
Grade C : 1 crore rupees
It is clear that the salary of male players is many times more than that of female players, although the match fees of both have now been kept the same.
Expectations increased after World Cup victory
After the World Cup victory, the popularity of women’s cricket has increased rapidly. Both fans and experts are of the opinion that now the time has come when the salary of women players should also be increased according to their contribution.