'Whatever It Takes…' ICC Releases Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 Song Performed By W.i.S.H.
Women's T20 World Cup 2024 to launch on October 3 (x.com)
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has unveiled the official event song of the upcoming Women’s T20 World Cup 2024. Taking to their social media accounts on September 23, i.e., 10 days prior to the launch of the tournament, the apex body revealed the title of the song, as performed by an Indian-based all-girl group W.i.S.H.
The music video of the song features glimpses of past ICC events, and it was also inscribed with a cricketing footage of Indian batting superstar and current vice-captain Smriti Mandhana.
ICC unveils T20 World Cup official song
The song, titled ‘Whatever It Takes’, is performed by Indian pop group W.i.S.H. and composed by Parth Parekh, Mikey McCleary and the group itself. The music video of the 1:40 mins song features glimpses and highlights reel of prior Women’s T20 World Cup moments, as well as a dance choreography piece to match the excitement of the T20 extravaganza.
The song was also uploaded by the ICC on their YouTube channel on September 23.
Regardless, the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 is scheduled to launch on October 3 with a Group B match between Scotland and ‘designated hosts’ Bangladesh. As many as ten teams are participating in the competition and they are divided into two groups of five teams each.
The Group A features India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and defending champions Australia. The Group B consists of England, Scotland, South Africa, West Indies and Bangladesh.
The 17-day event was originally intended to be hosted by Bangladesh. However, the prevailing political unrest in the country and the attack on minorities prompted the ICC to relocate the entire multi-nation tournament to UAE instead. Here’s the entire updated schedule of the 2024 Women’s T20 World Cup as shared by the ICC:
Last week, the ICC also announced an enhanced prize pool for the competition, which would see winners take home more than double the amount of the preceding edition, which was held in 2023.