This summer time, the highest bracket within the males’s competitors has risen by 60% to £200,000, whereas the highest girls’s salaries have gone up simply 30%, to £65,000. A distinction of £75,000 final 12 months has now elevated to £135,000.
Within the lowest band, males might be paid £31,000 (beforehand £30,000) and the ladies £10,000 (£8,000). One of many suggestions of 2023’s Impartial Fee for Fairness in Cricket (ICEC) report was for equal salaries and bonuses within the competitors by 2025.
“It is positively one thing we have to handle,” Hannon-Dalby stated of the pay hole. “By this stage, gender pay was meant to be equal and positively within the conversations that we have had with the ECB in earlier years, they stated they had been going to enhance it. And it is really most likely received wider, hasn’t it? The pay hole’s really received wider, which isn’t nice.
“It is merely simply not honest is it? It isn’t proper. And definitely, if the ECB have promised that it is going to get higher and it hasn’t, that is not proper.
“All we will do is ask and all we will do is attempt. The ladies’s sport on this nation is completely exploding and its good to see. Actually, the ladies’s Hundred has been an absolute success.
“It is a dialog we have to have and it is one thing we have to attempt. It is one thing that I put in my manifesto, it is one thing that is necessary to our members and one thing we positively need to enhance.”
“James Vince has gone right into a white-ball-only deal. And that is not nice, is it? He is one of many gamers of his technology, good, good cricketer. For the well being of the county sport, we would like James Vince enjoying red-ball cricket”
Hannon-Dalby can also be eager to push for extra readability on the ECB’s new No-Objection Certificates (NOC) coverage, which is able to deny gamers on red-ball contracts with their counties from collaborating in different competitions that conflict with the English summer time.
The notable exception to the rule is the IPL, which this season will run from March 21 to Could 25, encroaching on the beginning of the English summer time. However the principle competition over the brand new stance comes from the very fact the PSL is just not afforded the identical exception, regardless of concluding greater than two weeks earlier, on Could 9.
“James Vince, as I perceive it, has gone right into a white-ball-only deal. And that is not nice, is it? He is one of many gamers of his technology, a superb, good cricketer. He is whacked me round Edgbaston loads of instances, so really not bowling at him subsequent 12 months, as a lot as it would assist my bowling figures… for the well being of the county sport, we would like James Vince enjoying red-ball cricket.
“[There is] additionally a little bit of disparity between the folks capable of go to the IPL however then not the PSL. Simply on the face of it does not appear particularly reasonable. It appears, ‘one rule for one, one rule for the opposite’.
“I perceive there was a whole lot of open communication and collaboration with ECB. Getting within the room and speaking about how we shield gamers’ motion shifting ahead goes to be essential.
“It is most likely extra the motion within the winter and the little bit of disparity round completely different competitions having completely different guidelines. I believe it is most likely the principle bone of competition.”
Hannon-Dalby will formally start his PCA duties at first of subsequent month, after being ratified on the PCA annual common assembly on March 4. The 35-year-old, who began out at Yorkshire earlier than shifting to Warwickshire in 2013, would be the sixteenth chair of the affiliation, having spent greater than 10 years as a PCA consultant.
Vithushan Ehantharajah is an affiliate editor at ESPNcricinfo
