Connect with us

Featured

How much prize money awaits the winner of the Cricket World Cup?

The ICC has increased the Cricket World Cup prize pot by 25 per cent

Cricket World Cup

and company stand to net a prize purse of £3.15m ($4m) if they are able to win the 2019 World Cup.

The ICC have disclosed the sums which will be split across all ten nations set to compete in the tournament in England and Wales.

From a prize pot totalling a little under £10m, a 25 per cent increase compared to 2015, £3.15m will be paid to the that is triumphant and £1.5 to the runners-up.

England open the tournament at against South Africa on 30 May, followed by nine further matches which concludes at Chester-le-Street when they take on New Zealand on 3 July.

Each win prior to the knockout stages of the World Cup will net each victor £31,000.

The ICC have reverted the format of the tournament to similar guidelines of 1992, where each nation plays each other once in a round-robin phase, with quarter and semi finals preceding the final on 14 July.

In addition to releasing details of the financial reward, the ICC also confirmed the commentary team set to occupy the microphone for the governing body’s worldwide broadcast service.

World Cup captains Graeme Smith, Nasser Hussain, Kumar Sangakkara, , Brendon McCullum, Shaun Pollock, , Sourav Ganguly and Michael Clarke will all call World Cup events, as well as seasoned media figures Ian Bishop, Simon Doull, , Melanie Jones, Isa Guha and , as well as Sanjay Manjrekar and Harsha Bhogle.

Click to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

 

Get the Inside Edge

- Sign Up to our weekly Cricket Newsletter
Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again.
Your subscription has been successful.

More in Featured