The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 was an international

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tournament organised by the

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(ICC) that took place in England in June 2009. It was the second

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tournament, following the inaugural event in South Africa in September 2007. As before, the tournament featured 12 male teams – nine of the ten

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-playing nations and three associate nations, which earned their places through a qualification tournament. Matches were played at three English grounds –

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and

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, and

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. The tournament was organised in parallel with the

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, with the men's semi-finals and final being preceded by the semi-finals and final from the women's event. The final took place at Lord's on Sunday 21 June with

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beating

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by eight wickets and

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beating

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by six wickets in the women's final.

Background

In June 2006, ''

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'' reported that the

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and

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had put in a joint bid to host the tournament at

and

. In December 2007, the ICC provisionally approved a Women's World Twenty20 to run alongside the men's event which, subject to the approval of the ICC's finance and commercial affairs committee, would come into effect for the 2009 tournament in England. In early January 2008, speculation arose that the tournament could be held elsewhere as the British government have banned Zimbabwe from touring England in 2009. However, it was later confirmed that the tournament would definitely take place in the country. In April 2008, the third venue was confirmed as Nottingham's

; the 17,500 seater stadium was chosen to hold one of the semi-finals, among other earlier matches.

and

are the two other confirmed venues, with the opening match and final being played at Lord's.

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had bid for the third venue, but Trent Bridge was chosen for its closer proximity to the two London grounds.

Qualification

Although early reports suggested the 2009 event may involve just eight teams in a nine-day event, the full twelve-team tournament was confirmed, featuring the

-playing nations and two qualifying associate nations. However, in July 2008 Zimbabwe, under pressure from South Africa and England over political matters related to

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, pulled out of the tournament of their own volition, creating an additional space for an associate nation. Qualification was achieved by the finalists of an

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held in

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from 2–4 August 2008, between

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and

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. Ireland and the Netherlands, having reached the final, qualified outright, while Scotland won the third place playoff beating Kenya to also qualify.

Venues

The matches were played at the following three grounds:

Rules and regulations

During the group stage and Super Eight, points are awarded to the teams as follows: In case of a

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(i.e. both teams score the same number of runs at the end of their respective innings), a Super Over decides the winner. This applies in all stages of the tournament. Within each group (both group stage and Super Eight stage), teams are ranked against each other based on the following criteria: # Higher number of points # If equal, higher number of wins # If still equal, higher

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# If still equal, lower bowling strike rate # If still equal, result of head-to-head meeting.

Groups

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and the successful qualifying associate nations. The initial four group format is the same as that used at the 2007 tournament. Team seed in brackets. Group A * (1) * (8) * (9) Group B * (2) * (7) * (10) Group C * (3) * (6) * (11) Group D * (4) * (5) * (12)

Squads

Results

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Warm-up matches

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Group stage

Group A

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Super 8s

The Super 8s consisted of two groups: Group E and Group F. Group E consisted of A1, B2, C1, D2 and Group F consisted of A2, B1, C2, D1, where X1 is the first seed from Group X and X2 is the second seed from Group X. The seedings were based on performance in the last ICC T20 (2007). If a non-seeded team knocks out a seeded team, the non-seeded team inherits the seed of the team it knocked out.

Group E

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Group F

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Knockout stage

Semi-finals

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Final

In the final at

, the home of cricket in

, Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat. The first over was bowled by

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. After failing to score off the first four balls – all short – Dilshan went for his scoop and mistimed it, resulting in him being caught at short fine-leg. Soon after this,

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top edged a delivery by

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which went high in the air and was caught by

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, leaving Sri Lanka at 2 for 2.

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was able to stabilise the innings for Sri Lanka hitting 17 runs off 10 balls, however, Jayasuriya soon fell as he dragged a good length ball back on to the stumps.

Mahela Jayawardene Denagamage Praboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene ( si, දෙනගමගේ ප්‍රබෝත් මහේල ද සිල්වා ජයවර්ධන; born 27 May 1977) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who is the current consultant coach ...

followed after edging a shot into the hands of

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, leaving Sri Lanka on 32/4. Sangakkara and Chamara Silva added further runs, before the latter was caught by

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playing a pull shot off the bowling of

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soon after, took the wicket of

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with a googly which drifted into the right-hander, knocking the off-stump. This brought in

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, who along with Sangakkara took the score from 70/6 to 138/6, with 17 runs being scored off the last over bowled by

. Sri Lanka finished on 138/6 from 20 overs. Pakistan started off well with openers

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and

adding 48 runs for the 1st wicket, before

was stumped by

Kumar Sangakkara Kumara Chokshananda Sangakkara ( si, කුමාර් චොක්ශනාද සංගක්කාර; born 27 October 1977) is a Sri Lankan cricket commentator, former professional cricketer, businessman, ICC Hall of Fame inductee and the ...

by the first delivery of

. Pakistan reached the target in 18.4 overs, with

, who hit the winning runs, earning

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while

Tillakaratne Dilshan Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan ( si, තිලකරත්න මුදියන්සේලාගේ ඩිල්ෂාන්; born 14 October 1976), commonly known as TM Dilshan () is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and former captain of th ...

was declared

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for his 317 runs at an average of 63.40. Pakistan's win, often cheered on by crowds of fans from England's Pakistani communities, marked its first world title since

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's "cornered tigers" had won the 1992 World Cup.

Match officials

References

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