14 Facts About Twenty20 cricket

Together with first-class and List A cricket, Twenty20 is one of the three current forms of cricket recognised by the International Cricket Council as being at the highest international or domestic level.

Typical Twenty20 cricket game is completed in about two and a half hours, with each innings lasting around 70 minutes and an official 10-minute break between the innings.

The first season of Twenty20 cricket in England was a relative success, with the Surrey Lions defeating the Warwickshire Bears by nine wickets in the final to claim the title.

The first Twenty20 match held at Lord's, on 15 July 2004 between Middlesex and Surrey, attracted a crowd of 27,509, the highest attendance for any county cricket game at the ground – other than a one-day final – since 1953.

On 12 January 2005 Australia's first Twenty20 cricket game was played at the WACA Ground between the Western Warriors and the Victorian Bushrangers.

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Every two years an ICC World Twenty20 tournament is to take place, except in the event of an ICC Cricket World Cup being scheduled in the same year, in which case it will be held the year before.

The 2010 ICC World Twenty20 cricket tournament was held in the West Indies in May 2010, where England defeated Australia by seven wickets.

The 2012 ICC World Twenty20 cricket was won by the West Indies, by defeating Sri Lanka at the finals.

The 2014 ICC World Twenty20 cricket was won by Sri Lanka, by defeating India at the finals, where the tournament was held in Bangladesh.

Twenty20 cricket is claimed to have resulted in a more athletic and explosive form of cricket.

Matthew Hayden credited retirement from international Twenty20 cricket with aiding his performance in general and fitness in particular in the Indian Premier League.

Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting, on the other hand, has criticized Twenty20 as being detrimental to Test cricket and for hampering batsmen's scoring skills and concentration.

Women's and men's Twenty20 cricket Internationals have been played since 2004 and 2005 respectively.

Until 2018, the ICC did not maintain a separate Twenty20 cricket ranking for the women's game, instead aggregating performance over all three forms of the game into one overall women's teams ranking.