ICC announces schedule of pre-event media activities
Other important information for media covering the ICC Women’s World Cup 2009; event media guide now available for free download
Next week, there will be a number of media opportunities in relation to the ICC Women’s World Cup 2009 which takes place in New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory from 7 to 22 March.
The teams will start arriving in Sydney ahead of the welcome function, which takes place at the Sydney Opera House on 5 March, beginning at 1615. All accredited journalists, who will have collected their tournament passes by then, are invited to attend.
The event’s official photographer, Getty Images, and an ICC-commissioned photographer, will be in attendance. Customers of Getty can access those images in the usual way but they will not form part of the free gallery on the ICC website.
To download free images, users need to go to http://iccfiles.sportcentric.org/, click ICC WWW 09 folder, go to the relevant match folder and click on the required image to download.
Images from the following matches will be available for free download:
5 Mar – Welcome Function
7 Mar – India v Pakistan, Bradman Oval
8 Mar – West Indies v South Africa, Newcastle No. 1 Sports Ground
10 Mar – Australia v South Africa, Newcastle No. 1 Sports Ground
12 Mar – New Zealand v South Africa, Bradman Oval
14 Mar – A2 v B2, Bankstown Oval
17 Mar – A3 v B2, Drummoyne Oval
19 Mar – A2 v B3, Drummoyne Oval
21 Mar – Practice sessions in the lead-up to the final
22 Mar – final, NSO
23 Mar – Winning captain and player of the tournament with trophies, Sydney Harbour
Ahead of the welcome function, all eight teams will be holding media conferences on 3 and 5 March at the Menzies Hotel, Sydney. All print, radio, television and internet journalists are invited to attend those media conferences upon production of the relevant identification.
The arrival press conferences are expected to be attended by the captains, vice-captains, coaches and managers while each team is expected to put up four players for the open media sessions.
The schedule of pre-event media activities are as follows:
Tuesday 3 March
0945 – Australia captain Karen Rolton’s news conference
1015 – West Indies captain Merissa Aguilleira news conference
1030 – England captain Charlotte Edward’s news conference
1100 – Australia team’s open media session
1145 – West Indies team’s open media session
1215 – England team’s open media session
Thursday 5 March
1000 – New Zealand captain Haidee Tiffen’s news conference
1030 – South Africa captain Sunette Loubser news conference
1100 – India captain Jhulan Goswami’s news conference
1130 – Sri Lanka captain Shashikala Sriwardena news conference
1145 – Pakistan captain Urooj Mumtaz’s news conference
1215 – South Africa team’s open media session
1215 – Sri Lanka team’s open media session
1215 – Pakistan team’s open media session
1300 – India team’s open media session
1300 – New Zealand team’s open media session
For interviews with players and team officials outside of these times, please contact the relevant team manager directly. Their tournament mobile phone numbers are:
Australia +61 410 914 907 England +61 414 197 234 India +61 415 874 118 New Zealand +61420 797 281 Pakistan +61 404 236 349 South Africa +61 414 282 620 Sri Lanka +61 415 236 978 West Indies +61 415 232 801
Meanwhile, there will be a number of warm-up matches taking place across Sydney with all eight teams involved. A full schedule of warm-up matches is:
Monday 2 March – West Indies v New South Wales (NSW), Old Kings; Australia v England, Village Green
Tuesday 3 March – New Zealand v Pakistan, Manly; Sri Lanka v NWS, Old Kings; India v South Africa, Raby 1
Wednesday 4 March – Australia v Sri Lanka, Manly; India v New Zealand, Old Kings; England v West Indies, Raby 1; Pakistan v South Africa, Green Village
Brief round-up and full scorecards of these matches will be posted on the event website shortly after the close of play each day.
When the proper tournament gets underway, there will be live ball-by-ball coverage on the event website.
Much of the content on the ICC Women’s World Cup 2009 website iccevents.yahoo.com will be available for use by broadcast and print outlets for free charge. In short, all reports, scorecards and audio interviews posted on the website can be lifted without any copyright issue.
Please note that all seven matches taking place at North Sydney Oval during the tournament proper, including the final, will be televised live by ICC’s host broadcaster ESPN STAR Sport (ESS). At this venue, the usual ICC event protocols regarding non-rights-holding broadcasters will apply. On match days, non-rights-holders will only be permitted to film the post-match press conference. No other filming is allowed at the NSO on match days.
At the other venues, non-rights-holding broadcasters may film up to 20 minutes of footage for no more than 90 seconds of air time. This is in line with existing news-access protocols.
Journalists who have been accredited to the ICC Women’s World Cup 2009 will by now have received official notification by the ICC. As previously advised, your pass will be waiting for you on the day of the open media sessions. Those arriving after 6 March can collect their passes from the Venue Media Manager of the venue nominated during the application process.
Before you receive your media pass for the tournament, you will be required to sign a copy of ICC’s standard media terms and conditions.
The 16-page event media guide is now available for free download from the tournament website. It is full of useful information including all eight team profiles and the full event schedule and useful practical information for journalists and photographers covering the event.
