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India has won the ODI World Cup for the first time by defeating South Africa by 52 runs. DY Patil Stadium of Navi Mumbai became witness to this historic moment. After 2005 and 2017, this Indian team was playing the third World Cup final, finally Team India won the cup under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur. For this historic victory, the Indian team has received a record prize money of approximately Rs 42 crore. A prize pool of approximately Rs 123 crore was prepared for the Women’s World Cup.
How much prize money does the World Cup winner get?
The Indian cricket team has received prize money of approximately Rs 42 crore for becoming the champion of the World Cup 2025. This amount is more than the prize money received by 2023 Men’s World Cup winner Australia. Apart from this, BCCI has already announced to give a prize money of Rs 125 crore to Team India if it becomes the winner. Australia had received prize money of about Rs 33 crore at that time. But an amount of Rs 42 crore was given to the Indian women’s cricket team. The runner-up South African team has received prize money of about Rs 20 crore.
Money has also been showered on the teams going to the semi-finals, i.e. Australia and England. Both the teams have received Rs 11.95 crore. No team returned home empty-handed, because a lot of money was showered on the teams that were eliminated in the league stage itself.
The teams ranked fifth (Sri Lanka) and sixth (New Zealand) in the table have received Rs 7.8 crore each. Whereas Pakistan, ranked seventh (Bangladesh) and eighth, both got Rs 4.5 crore.
- Champion (India) – 42 crores
- Runner-up (South Africa) – 20 crores
- Third place (Australia) 11.95 crores
- Fourth place (England) – 11.95 crores
- Fifth place (Sri Lanka) – 7.8 crores
- 6th place (New Zealand) – 7.8 crores
- Seventh place (Bangladesh) – 4.5 crores
- Eighth place (Pakistan) – 4.5 crores
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