MUMBAI: With less than a year to go for the ICC World Twenty20 2014 in Bangladesh, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has launched the events logo in Dhaka.
The logo was unveiled at a gala event that was shown live on television in Bangladesh and in the presence of the ICC VP Mustafa Kamal and Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) President Nazmul Hassan.
The logo has been inspired by painted rickshaws which pack the streets of cities in Bangladesh cities. The event logo uses the colours of the Bangladesh flag with splashes of blue which represent Bangladesh‘s iconic waterways as well as being the ICC‘s own colour.
The T is made up of cricket stumps and the 0 in the T20 represents the cricket ball complete with Bangladeshi green seam while the white in the design lends an energetic, friendly and youthful feel to the logo.
For the first time, 16 men‘s teams will compete for the ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh 2014 alongside eight women‘s teams who include for the first time the hosts. The event will run from 16 March to 6 April 2014 and is scheduled to be played in four cities in Bangladesh - Mirpur, Chittagong, Sylhet and Cox‘s Bazar.
It has been designed in Australia by design company WiteKite, who also designed the ICC Cricket World Cup logo in 2011, the ICC World Twenty20 2012 Sri Lanka mark and the distinctive logo for the ICC Women‘s World Cup 2013 India.
