Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Sept 30: The prize money for the next T20 World Cup 2022 was revealed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Friday, with the winning team receiving an incredible USD 1.6 million.
“The ICC announced that the winning side at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 in Melbourne on November 13 would receive prize money of USD 1.6 million, with the runners-up guaranteed half the amount,” the apex cricket body in an official media release said.
The losing semi-finalists in the 16-team event, which lasts for over a month, will receive USD 400,000 each from the USD 5.6 million total prize pool.
At the Super 12 stage, eight teams will be eliminated, and each will get USD 70,000. A victory in each of the 30 games in the Super 12 phase of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 will be worth USD 40,000, just like it was last year.
“The eight teams that made it directly to the Super 12 phase are Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa,” reads the official release.
The first round will feature the remaining eight teams, which are divided into two groups of four. These teams are Namibia, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, and Zimbabwe in Group B, and they will compete in Group A. For each victory in the opening round, winners will get USD 40,000 in prizes, for a total of USD 480,000 over the course of the 12 matches.
Each of the four teams eliminated in the first round will get USD 40,000.
