Good News Better pay and more contracts for New Zealand women cricketers

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In a massive improvement for women's cricket in New Zealand, NZC and New Zealand Cricketers Players Association have agreed on a new Memorandum of Understanding, the key features of which includes a considerable pay hike for the centrally contracted cricketers and a wider pool of contracted players, which also includes the domestic cricketers.

As per the new agreement, the player payment pool will go up from $1.575 million for three years to $4.136 million. The number of centrally contracted players will go up from 15 to 17, and nine players from each of the six associations will also be given a contract, apart from 8 players in the Development squad, taking the total number of contracted players to 79.

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