India players celebrate a wicket during the World Cup final against England at Lord's in London last July

Call it a coincidence, but the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) decision to officially release the players contracts on the eve of Women's Day may have resulted in heavy social media backlash over disparity of annual remuneration between men's and women's cricketers. However, Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) member Diana Edulji felt there cannot be any comparisons between the men's and women's teams. "It is unfair to compare the men and women cricketers. Women's cricket still has to be nurtured and it will grow over a period of time with more television coverage of their matches," Edulji told mid-day yesterday.