The memory of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 final has been permanently immortalised, as the Melbourne Cricket Club commissioned a picture of the world champion Australian Women’s Cricket Team, which was displayed at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) with the help of Cricket Australia.
Vincent Fantauzzo, a two-time Doug Moran National Portrait Prize winner, and Melbourne Cricket Club President Michael Happell, as well as World Cup winning squad members Georgia Wareham, Sophie Molineux, and Delissa Kimmince, were present to unveil the artwork, which have been created on the lines of ‘team of the century’, depicting the moment of celebration for the 16 members of the T20 World Cup-winning Australian team.
The artwork will be displayed on the Melbourne Cricket Club Members’ Reserve’s Level 2 corridors, next to the renowned Long Room, and will be the first to portray a Women’s athletic team on permanent exhibit at the MCG. It will be on display along the world-famous Melbourne Cricket Ground Tour route, viewable to the approximately 130,000 people who attend tours each year, including families and kids.
International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8, 2022, and marks two years of the high octane ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 final between India and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which drew 86,174 spectators, which is an Australian attendance record for a standalone women’s sporting event and the highest crowd count for a women’s cricket match worldwide.
Meg Lanning, captain of the Australian Women’s Team, said it was an honour to be the first female athletic team to be immortalised in art at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
The ICC Women’s World Cup final in 2020 will be a memorable occasion, and having a piece of artwork to commemorate it is fantastic. While we were unable to attend, having the artwork exhibited the night before International Women’s Day, which will commemorate two years since the final, serves as a reminder of what can be achieved, Lanning said in an official statement.
“We hope that we can make all our fans at home proud and emulate our performance from that World Cup in 2020 while we are here in New Zealand competing for the 50 version,” she added.
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