The Cricket World Cup fever is at its peak and the world will get a new champion of ODI cricket when India and Australia lock horns in the final on Sunday. After a total of 47 matches across 10 stadiums in India in the last 45 days, the two best teams of the tournament have reached the summit clash.
The clash between India and Australia will be an exciting one as the team, being crowned as World Champions, will also reap monetary benefits for bagging the title. The players of the World Cup winning team will go home reacher as the winners are going to be awarded four million US dollars which is INR 33.20 Crores. The runner-up of the tournament will receive two million US dollars which is around Rs 16.60 Crores.
South Africa and New Zealand will earn eight lakh US dollars each which is around Rs 6.64 crore as the teams losing the semi finals were going to be awarded that much amount.
A total of 10 teams participated in the World Cup 2023 out of which six failed to make it to the knockout stage. Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, England and the Netherlands were eliminated from the tournament in the league stage. Every team that gets eliminated in the league matches will get a prize money of one lakh US dollars which is about Rs 83 lakh. So, these six teams will get a total of 6 lakh US dollars.