The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is the World Championship for Cricket in the Twenty20 format. There are 12 teams competing in the Group Stages. The first two placed teams from each of the four groups (Group A to D) will move on to the Super Eights. Each team plays three games against teams they have not already played. (Teams divided into Group E and Group F). Fixtures are predetermined and have no connection to who finished first and second in the group. No points are carried forward from group stages. Top two teams in Groups E and F qualify for semi-finals.
Complete News Coverage of the Second ICC World Twenty20
ENGLAND (B2) vs SOUTH AFRICA (D2) at Trent Bridge Super Eight
All-round effort by Kallis in South African win
June 11, 2009
Man of the Match Jacques Kallis took 2 wickets in 3 overs, and followed it up with an
unbeaten 49 ball 57 which included 5 fours and a six. Owais Shah was the lone Englishman to withstand the Proteas' onslaught with 38 off 33 balls in a game where four of the top seven batsmen managed only
four runs between them.
2009 ICC World Twenty20 Match 14: SAF vs ENG, Group E, June 11: South Africa 114/3 (Kallis 57*, Gibbs 30) beat England 111 (Shah 38, Parnell 3-14) by 7 wickets
England1-4: Ravi Bopara b Steyn 2 (5b); 2-4: Luke Wright c Boucher b Parnell 1 (6b); 3-25: Kevin Pietersen c van der Merwe b Morkel 19 (17b); 4-78: Paul Collingwood b Kallis 19 (19b); 5-79: Foster c Morkel b van der Merwe 1 (4b); 6-82: Mascarenhas b van der Merwe 1 (3b); 7-88: Owais Shah c Boucher b Kallis 38 (33b); 8-92: Swann c Morkel b Botha 5 (6b); 9-111: Broad b Parnell 9 (8b); 10-111: Anderson b Parnell 0 (1b)
South Africa1-17: Graeme Smith c Foster b Broad 11 (15b); 2-91: Herschelle Gibbs b Swann 30 (30b); 3-108: AB de Villiers c Collingwood b Rashid 11 (12b)
Toss: England; elected to bat
Player of the match: Jacques Kallis (South Africa)
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is the World Championship for Cricket in the Twenty20 format. There are 12 teams competing in the Group Stages. The first two placed teams from each of the four groups (Group A to D) will move on to the Super Eights. Each team plays three games against teams they have not already played. (Teams divided into Group E and Group F). Fixtures are predetermined and have no connection to who finished first and second in the group. No points are carried forward from group stages. Top two teams in Groups E and F qualify for semi-finals.
Man of the Match Jacques Kallis took 2 wickets in 3 overs, and followed it up with an
unbeaten 49 ball 57 which included 5 fours and a six.
