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New South Wales cricketers will be the first Australian female domestic athletes to go fully professional, via a landmark deal that will push the wages of some players beyond six figures.Cricket NSW unveiled a two-season deal with the sponsor LendLease that will ensure all members of the Breakers squad earn at least a minimum wage of A$35,000 a year. Combined with WBBL and Southern Stars payments, this will mean the likes of Ellyse Perry will now draw in a cricket salary in excess of $100,000.The announcement arrived ahead of negotiations for a new MOU between Australias cricketers and Cricket Australia, with womens pay and conditions set to be a key battleground. NSW officials hope the LendLease underwrite will be a trendsetter for players around the nation.This truly is a landmark moment, NSW chief executive Andrew Jones said. Cricket NSW has always been a leader in womens sport and today we are proud to announce another first. Every member of the Lendlease Breakers squad now has the opportunity to pursue a professional sporting career.I am confident that every state in Australia will now follow the lead of Cricket NSW by giving their female cricketers the opportunity to earn a living wage.Cricket NSW is committed to growing and professionalising womens cricket by attracting and retaining the best athletes, providing world-class facilities, coaching and support staff, and offering all of our athletes a professional pathway.While the deal has been in the works for quite some time, it has grown in pertinence through recent advances in playing and payment opportunities for women in other sports such as AFL and netball. The new deal will again place cricket in the vanguard of womens sport.As the young Breakers batsman Ashleigh Gardner put it: Cricket has always been my passion. However, I never really thought that I would be able to play professionally. In the back of my mind I was always having to consider how I needed to juggle school work, studies, one day having a job and a family, with my training and matches.To know now that I dont need to worry about juggling all of this at once, and can really commit to my training and play professionally is incredible.Air Max 200 Herren . Fred Couples, captain of the U.S. side, put it all into perspective. "We know whos in charge," he said. Air Max 97 Günstig Kaufen . - Chris Tierney snapped a tie with a power-play goal late in the third period as the London Knights rallied from a 3-0 deficit to beat the Erie Otters 5-3 in Ontario Hockey League action on Wednesday. http://www.vapormaxkaufenschweiz.com/vapormax-herren-schweiz.html . That gave fans outside Joe Louis Arena another chance to ask for autographs from the 19-year-old whose stardom in the NHL has arrived earlier than most expected. Vapormax Schwarz Herren Schweiz . All of the scoring came in the final 20:04. Lucic scored on a power play at 15:46 of the third period, when he tipped a shot over Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen for a 3-1 lead. Nike Vapormax Herren Günstig . Detroit and Boston are deadlocked, 1-1, and Tigers manager Jim Leyland could be forgiven if he was caught rationalizing instead of dissecting how his club could blow a 5-1 lead late in Game 2.NEW YORK -- Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal say they plan to play doubles together when the Laver Cup debuts next year.With a combined 31 major titles, Federer and Nadal have committed to the inaugural event, which is an attempt to create a tennis version of golfs Ryder Cup.Named for Australian tennis great Rod Laver, the competition was first announced in Januuary.ddddddddddddA team of European players will face off against a group from the rest of the world Sept. 22-24, 2017, in Prague.Former rivals Bjorn Borg (Europe) and John McEnroe (world team) were announced Wednesday as captains. ' ' '