ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 wins ‘Best Sporting Event’ award in Australia
The International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s T20 World Cup held in February-March this 12 months has been recognised on the 2020 Australian Event Awards, together with successful the highest honour Australian Event of the Year, in addition to the nation’s Best Sporting Event.
The ground-breaking match attracted an general attendance of greater than 1,36,000 individuals in 23 matches in six host cities across the nation and generated unprecedented tv and digital viewers numbers, the ICC press launch stated.
It culminated in a crowd of 86,174 on the ultimate between Australia and India on the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on the International Women’s Day (March 8), a report attendance for a girls’s sporting occasion in Australia and the second-highest attendance at a girls’s sporting fixture wherever on the earth, ever.
The Australian Event of the Year winner is chosen from the nationwide winners of the most effective occasion classes and recognises an occasion that excels in opposition to the standards of its class and demonstrates an excellent instance of innovation and greatest observe within the occasions trade.
Nick Hockley, who was the CEO of the ICC T20 World Cup Local Organising Committee, earlier than taking over his present function as Interim Chief Executive of Cricket Australia, was on the Australian Event Awards perform in Sydney to just accept the awards.
“We are thrilled to receive these awards as recognition for what was an incredible event, which featured amazing performances from players on the field and unprecedented support from fans who filled venues around the country and watched in huge numbers on TV,” stated Hockley.
“The occasion was solely made attainable by means of the help of governments across the nation, our world-class venues, the ICC, Cricket Australia, State & Territory cricket associations, industrial companions, media and broadcasters, suppliers, volunteers, gamers and naturally the followers.
“The ICC Women’s T20 World Cup was more than a sporting event – it was an opportunity to showcase women’s sport on the biggest stage. Hopefully, young girls and boys will be inspired to dream big and follow in the footsteps of the star players who put on such an amazing show.Everyone involved will be forever grateful that we were able to complete the event in a year when so many events have been cancelled or postponed. We pay tribute to the resilience of everyone in the events industry, which has been so severely impacted by the pandemic,” he added.
Recent winners of the foremost awards embody the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix (2019) and the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games (2018).
The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup will likely be held in Australia in 2022 after the occasion, initially scheduled for October-November 2020, was postponed on account of COVID-19.
Australian Event Award entries are judged by trade leaders and consultants from round Australia on all elements of occasion administration together with greatest observe, innovation, advertising and marketing, stakeholder engagement and administration, sustainability and occasion legacy.
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