The 2009 Women's Twenty20 Cup was the inaugural
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
Women's Twenty20 Cup
The Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the Vitality Women's County T20, is a women's Twenty20 cricket competition organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board. Until the end of the 2019 season, teams were organised in tie ...
tournament. It took place in July, with 32 teams taking part: 30 county teams plus
Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...
and
Scotland
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.
Surrey Women won the Twenty20 Cup, as champions of Division One. The tournament ran alongside the
50-over 2009 Women's County Championship
The 2009 Women's County One-Day Championship was the 13th cricket Women's County Championship season. It ran from May to September and saw 30 county teams and teams representing Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Netherlands compete in a series of ...
.
Competition Format
Teams played matches within a series of divisions with the winners of the top division being crowned the Champions. Matches were played using a
Twenty20
Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single inn ...
format.
The championship worked on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:
Win: 2 points.
Tie: 1 point.
Loss: 0 points.
Abandoned/Cancelled: 1 point.
Teams
The 2009 Women's Twenty20 Cup was divided into eight divisions, Division One to Division Eight. Teams played each other once.
Division One
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 1 - 2009]
Play-Cricket.
Division Two
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 2 - 2009]
Play-Cricket.
Division Three
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 3 - 2009]
Play-Cricket.
Division Four
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 4 - 2009]
Play-Cricket.
Division Five
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 5 - 2009]
Play-Cricket.
Division Six
''All games abandoned due to rain.''
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 6 - 2009]
Play-Cricket.
Division Seven
''All games abandoned due to rain.''
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 7 - 2009]
Play-Cricket.
Division Eight
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 8 - 2009]
Play-Cricket.
Statistics
Most runs
Source: CricketArchive
Most wickets
Source: CricketArchive
References
{{Women's County Cricket in England
Women's Twenty20 Cup
2009 in Scottish cricket
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...