The 2009 Women's World Twenty20 was the inaugural Women's World Twenty20 competition, taking place in

England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

from 11 to 21 June 2009. All group stage matches were played at the County Ground in

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, with the semi-finals held at

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and

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, and the final at

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. The tournament featured eight teams split into two groups.

and

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contested the final, with the host nation bowling out New Zealand for 85, helped by Player of the Match Katherine Brunt's opening spell of 3 for 6. Player of the Tournament

Claire Taylor Samantha Claire Taylor (born 25 September 1975) is a former cricketer who represented England women's cricket team, England more than 150 times between 1998 and 2011. A Batting order (cricket), top order Batting (cricket), batter,In women's c ...

's 39 * saw England home to a comfortable six wicket victory.

Squads

Warm-up Games

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Pool stage

Group A

Points Table

Fixtures

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Group B

Points Table

Fixtures

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Knockout stage

Semi-finals

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Final

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Statistics

Most runs

Most wickets

ICC Team of the Tournament

After the tournament's conclusion an ICC panel of experts picked the best composite XI from the players in the Women's World Twenty20. 1 Shelley Nitschke (Australia) 2

Charlotte Edwards Charlotte Marie Edwards (born 17 December 1979) is an English former cricketer and current cricket coach and commentator. She played primarily as a right-handed batter. She appeared in 23 Test matches, 191 One Day Internationals and 95 Twent ...

(England) 3

(England) 4 Aimee Watkins (New Zealand) 5 Sarah Taylor (England) 6

Suzie Bates Suzannah Wilson Bates (born 16 September 1987) is a New Zealand cricketer and former captain of national women cricket team. Born in Dunedin, she plays domestic cricket for the Otago Sparks, as well as for the White Ferns. She currently holds t ...

(New Zealand) 7 Lucy Doolan (New Zealand) 8 Rumeli Dhar (India) 9 Holly Colvin (England) 10 Sian Ruck (New Zealand) 11

Laura Marsh Laura Alexandra Marsh (born 5 December 1986) is an English former cricketer. Born in Pembury, Kent, she began playing cricket at 11 and started her career as a medium pace bowler but found greater success when she switched to off spin. She playe ...

(England) 12th man: Eshani Kaushalya (Sri Lanka)

References

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