Cricket Ireland Announces 1.5M Euro Investment In Women's Game

DUBAI: Cricket Ireland on Thursday announced that it will invest 1.5m euro in the women's game in the country. The investment in women's cricket in Ireland will see professional contracts for 20 cricketers, seven of which are full-time contracts, nine part-time, and four non-retainers. All full-time contracts will start this month, meaning Ireland will have the country's first-ever full-professional women's cricketers going into the 2022 summer season.

The part-time contracts are designed to support players who are in education, offering the financial support to fund their training, development and summer playing schedule.

"The work behind-the-scenes to get to this point has - in reality - been three years in the making. Coming off the back of th' team's performance at the ICC Women's T20 World Cup in 2018, we - as an organisation - committed ourselves to a journey to professionalise women's cricket. It was not only a good thing to do, it was the right thing to do," Warren Deutrom, Chief Executive of Cricket Ireland, said in a release issued by ICC. IANS

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