New Zealand Cricket to pay men, women equally: Where does India stand?

Top-grade international male cricketers get Rs 7 crore annual salary; women get Rs 50 lakh

At long last, progress. New Zealand Cricket’s (NZC) decision to award both its men and women players equal match pay is a small battle won in a long war of discrimination.

For cricket, a game famously steadfast in its embrace of tradition, for good and bad, this is new ground. No one has done this before, and New Zealand’s decision will rattle not just the men in charge of other national associations, but also put forth more questions for the direction of the women’s game.

According to NZC's latest pay agreement, which comes into effect on August 1, the highest