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Follow UsThe Pakistan Women’s cricket team are in a camp in Multan, preparing for a three-match T20 international series against South Africa just ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024. This series, starting September 15, is supposed to work as a preparation for the global event which will be held in October in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
However, even before the start of the series, it is turning out to be a difficult proposition for the Pakistan team, not on the field, but off it. They are being denied their daily allowance at the camp, as per a report by ESPNcricinfo.
The camp started on September 1, and the women are only being given three meals a day and a hotel to stay and there is no monetary allowance over and above it.
However, the women will get their match fees and daily allowance once the series starts. But this change in stance in a World Cup year by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is shocking. Before this camp, they had daily allowances given to them during a camp for the West Indies series that the team hosted in April this year.
The men’s cricket team do get daily allowances over and above two meals a day and a hotel stay during the camp. Though rules are the same for both the men’s and women’s teams, in practice, it is different.
But the decision marks a change in policy from how the allowance structure was determined at previous camps and is also in contrast to how it is handled for the men's national team.
“In the past, the women's team received modest daily allowances at training camps. This time, however, the PCB is providing accommodation as well as three meals to the members at the camp; at previous camps, three daily meals were not provided. A PCB official said that the board's policy dictated that if three meals a day and hotel accommodation were made available, no daily allowances over and above that would be provided,” ESPNcricinfo wrote in their report.
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