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9 unusual facts about Twenty20


2011–12 HRV Cup

The 2011–12 HRV Cup was the seventh season of the HRV Twenty20 Cup, the official Twenty20 domestic cricket in New Zealand.

2012–13 Caribbean Twenty20

The 2012–13 Caribbean Twenty20 was the fourth season of the Caribbean Twenty20, a domestic Twenty20 tournament administered by the West Indies Cricket Board.

Caribbean Premier League

It was created in 2013 and replaced the Caribbean Twenty20 as the premier Twenty20 competition in the Caribbean.

The Caribbean Premier League (abbreviated to CPL or CPLT20) is an annual Twenty20 cricket tournament held in the Caribbean.

DD National

Usually, all One Day and Twenty20 international cricket matches involving and hosted by India are shown live in DD National.

Etisalat Sixes T20 Tournament

Etisalat Sixes T20 Tournament is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in Afghanistan.

Himachal Pradesh Rural Cricket League

The Himachal Pradesh Rural Cricket League (HPRCL) is a Twenty20 Cricket League.

Ricardo Brangman

In January 2008, Bermuda were again invited to part in the 2008 Stanford 20/20, where Brangman made a single Twenty20 appearance against Guyana in the first round.

Stanford 20/20

It is a variety of the popular Twenty20 format first introduced in English cricket in 2003.


2005 English cricket season

Karen Rolton then hit 96 not out in the second women's Twenty20 international ever to be played, as Australia won by seven wickets.

2005–06 VB Series

Victoria, who had qualified for the Twenty20 Big Bash final three days earlier, had Allan Wise take five wickets when they hosted the Sri Lankans in Melbourne.

2008 Champions League Twenty20

The 2008 Champions League Twenty20 was scheduled to be the first edition of the Champions League Twenty20, an international club cricket tournament.

Aaron Bird

Bird caused controversy after appearing in a Twenty20 match, in which players wore nicknames on their shirts, with the moniker 'Flu' - a reference to bird flu.

Abzal

Abzal Dean (born 1983), cricketer who has played one Twenty20 International for Canada

Ahmed Shehzad

Despite a failure in the Twenty20 Shehzad was selected for the Pakistan squad in the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 and he only played one game which was the opening game against England, being caught by Paul Collingwood.

Alison Mitchell

She has presented Lord's TV - presenting on the Big Screen for Middlesex Panthers Twenty20 matches, and commentating for the in-house television system with Simon Hughes.

Big Bash

Big Bash League, the domestic Twenty20 cricket competition which began in the 2011–2012 Australian summer

KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, the previous domestic Twenty20 cricket competition that ran in Australia from 2005 to early 2011

Bowl-out

The first international bowl-out in a Twenty20 match took place on 16 February 2006, when New Zealand beat West Indies 3-0 in Auckland.

Campbell Park Cricket Ground

In 2005, the ground hosted its first Twenty20 match when Northamptonshire played Gloucestershire in the 2005 Twenty20 Cup.

Danny Briggs

Hampshire had another successful Twenty20 tournament, with Hampshire reaching the final, where they would eventually lose to Trinidad and Tobago.

ECB 40

The competition began in the 2010 English cricket season with Clydesdale Bank, previously sponsor of the Twenty20 Cup, agreeing to a three-year sponsorship.

English women's cricket team in Australia in 2013–14

Six points are awarded for a Test victory (two points to each side in the event of a draw), and two points for a victory in any of the One Day Internationals and Twenty20 games.

Essex County Cricket Club in 2005

Dane Amjad Khan, who missed the 2005 ICC Trophy and most of the Twenty20 Cup due to injury, returned to cricket with a spell of three for 24 to set Essex Eagles back to 26 for 3.

Hour of Coming

The poem turned out to be almost prophetic, and became famous due to the miraculous coincidences between its final stanza and the events at the inaugural World Twenty20 Cricket final match.

ICC EAP Cricket Trophy

Division One of the 2011 EAP Trophy is due to be held in Papua New Guinea in July, with the winner due to progress to the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier, the final qualification tournament for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 due to be held in Sri Lanka.

ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier

The first ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier was held in 2008 and it was in similar fashion to the ICC World Cup Qualifier.

Jim Allenby

On 15 June 2008, Allenby became the first player in Twenty20 Cup history to achieve four wickets with four consecutive balls, when he removed Lancashire Lightning players Kyle Hogg, Steven Croft, Dominic Cork and Sajid Mahmood.

Keithroy Cornelius

In February 2008, the United States Virgin Islands were invited to take part in the 2008 Stanford 20/20, whose matches held official Twenty20 status.

Kent County Cricket Club in 2005

Dane Amjad Khan, who had missed the first part of the 2005 ICC Trophy and most of the Twenty20 Cup due to injury, returned to cricket with a very decent bowling spell of three for 24 to set Essex Eagles back to 26 for 3.

Lloyd Mash

He scored 44 in his innings and in a Twenty20 game that they played he hit four sixes off Dwayne Bravo.

Mashonaland Eagles

Mash Eagles had an excellent start to their debut Twenty20 campaign as they beat Matabeleland Tuskers by 5 wickets at Harare.

Mitchell Marsh

In September 2011, he was named in Australia's Twenty20 squad to tour South Africa.

Mohammad Salman

Salman made his international debut (in all formats) verses West Indies in the only T20 played at Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia on 21 April 2011.

Narendra Ekanayake

Ekanayake played his second and final Twenty20 match to date for the Bahamas in the 1st round of the 2008 Stanford 20/20 against Jamaica, where he took the wicket of Xavier Marshall.

New Zealand cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2013–14

The New Zealand cricket team are currently competing against Sri Lanka in a tour consisting of three ODIs and two Twenty20s.

Otago cricket team

The Volts again qualified for the league in the 2013 season where they were much more successful entering the competition having won a string of Twenty20 matches which eventually ended at fifteen when they lost the Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur.

Ramadan T20 Cup

The Ramadan T20 Cup (also known as Advance Telecom Ramadan T20 Cup) is a professional Twenty20 cricket league held in holy month of Ramadan, in Pakistan.

Rana Kalangutkar

This record is in fact held by Pakistani cricketer Nasir Jamshed, who made his Twenty20 debut for the Lahore Lions in April 2005, at the age of 15 years and 140 days.

Richard Kettleborough

He was the ECB's designated TV umpire on the ICC International Panel for the 2009 season, but was appointed to stand on-field in a Twenty20 between England and Australia in August 2009 and a One Day International between the same sides a month later.

Saurabh Verma

Verma made his debut for the United States in an unofficial Twenty20 against the UAE in a pre-tournament warm up match for the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier.

Sophie Le Marchand

In the Twenty20 tournament, she was selected as a specialist batsman, with England's national women's team player Jane Smit keeping wicket for the Emeralds.

Subash Prasad Khakurel

He debuted for Nepalese national cricket team in twenty20 on 4 December 2011 against Hong Kong national cricket team( ACC T20 2011 ) at Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur.

Tom Burrows

Burrows' first class debut match in May 2005 against Kent he helped Shane Warne towards his maiden first-class century, making 42 from number eight in a stand of 131 with Warne, and two months later he debuted in Twenty20 cricket, but was not called upon to bat as Hampshire lost to Sussex by ten runs.

Travis Birt

Birt transferred to Western Australia for the 2011–12 season, but has found more success in the Twenty20 format, variously representing the Wellington Firebirds, Delhi Daredevils, Nagenahira Nagas, and Khulna Royal Bengals in New Zealand, Indian, Sri Lankan, and Bangladeshi domestic tournaments, respectively.

Vinay Kumar

In May 2010, after India's elimination from the ICC World Twenty20, Vinay Kumar made his ODI debut against Zimbabwe in Harare, taking 2/51 off eight overs in a six-wicket defeat.

Warren McSkimming

Warren Charles McSkimming (born 21 June 1979, Ranfurly, Otago) is a member of the Otago cricket team, competing in the State Championship, State Shield and State Twenty20 competitions.


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