Facts on T20 Cup

1) Twenty20 cricket was first introduced in England in 2003.

2) An average Twenty20 match is completed in less than three hours, compared to five days for Test cricket and one day for, er, one-day cricket.

3) The first Twenty20 game held at Lord’s attracted a crowd of 26,500, the largest attendance for any county cricket game, other than a one-day final, since 1953.
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4) Teams are penalised six runs if they fail to bowl the full 20 overs in their allocation of 75 minutes.

5) Only two fielders are allowed outside an inner circle for the first six overs of an innings.

6) Umpires may award five-run penalty runs at their discretion if they believe either team is wasting time.

7) West Indies’ Chris Gayle is the only cricketer to score a century in a Twenty20 International. He struck 117 against South Africa during the inaugural Twenty 20 World Cup in September 2007.

8) The record for the lowest domestic T20 innings total is held by Sussex who managed only 67 against Hampshire in 2004.

9) In the event of a tie in T20 cricket a bowl out takes place. To see how it works take a look at the clip below from the Twenty20 World Cup
10) Mark Ealham struck a record nine sixes in an innings for Notts against Yorkshire in 2004.

11) Surrey’s Nayan Doshi has taken more T20 wickets than any other bowler in all domestic and international competitions. He has 53 scalps at an average of 14.66.

12) The Kent Spitfire is the current holder of the Twenty20 Finals Day Mascot Race crown.

13) During last year’s Twenty20 World Cup England’s Dimitri Mascarenhas struck four sixes in a row against New Zealand
14) During the same tournament England’s Stuart Broad was taken for 36 off an over by Pakistan’s Yuvraj Singh.
15) Veteran England all-rounder Chris Lewis, who retired from cricket in 2000, has come out of retirement this season to play Twenty20 cricket for Surrey.

16) England captain Michael Vaughan has never represented his county Yorkshire in Twenty20 cricket.

17) In the 2006 Twenty20 Cup Somerset’s Craig White and Justin Langer put on a record 186 run partnership for the second wicket.

18) The fastest T20 hundred was struck by Andrew Symonds in 2004. Playing for Kent against Middlesex it took him just 34 balls to reach three figures.

19) Our friends over at Betfred tell us that Sussex and Lancashire are joint favourites for this year’s cup
20) There is a campaign afoot to have Twenty20 cricket included in the Olympic Games, possibly at London 2012.