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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Major boost in prize money pool for players

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ST.JOHN'S–The prize mon­ey pool for the 2015-16 WICB Pro­fes­sion­al Crick­et League (PCL) has been in­creased sig­nif­i­cant­ly from US$30,000 to more than US$120,000.

Mak­ing the an­nounce­ment on Tues­day the WICB said it was ex­cit­ed about the in­crease which it feels will en­cour­age play­ers and en­hance the com­pe­ti­tion in the tour­na­ment.

In ad­di­tion to the usu­al Play­er-of-the-Match and sea­son-end­ing awards, teams in each round will now re­ceive US $3,000 for each out­right vic­to­ry un­der the new pay struc­ture for the Tour­na­ment.

"We ul­ti­mate­ly want as many play­ers as pos­si­ble fight­ing for the 11 start­ing spots in the West In­dies Test team, and the WICB is com­mit­ted to do­ing all that we can to en­cour­age ro­bust per­for­mances from our play­ers and we be­lieve this new cash prize in­cen­tive is one way to achieve this."

"We are sure that the in­crease in prize mon­ey will en­cour­age the play­ers to play more pur­pose­ful­ly and we hope will re­al­ly help to build the com­pet­i­tive en­vi­ron­ment in the Tour­na­ment," said Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the WICB, Michael Muir­head.

The cham­pi­on team will re­ceive US 15,000, the run­ners up US 5,000 while awards of US 1,500 will be hand­ed to the play­ers scor­ing the most runs, tak­ing the most wick­ets, the most catch­es as well as to the top all-rounder. (CMC)


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