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ICC WOMEN T20 WORLD CUP WINNER 2009 - ENGLAND

England’s women create a history by winning the double world cup title in the cricket. Yesterday, they defeated New Zealand by six wickets in the final of the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup which played at Lords, London. They had also won the ODI World Cup in Australia in March 2009. In the final of the T20 World cup, England won the toss and elected to a field first. Then the New Zealand batted first and gained only 85 runs in 20 overs. England fast bowler Katherine Brunt took three wickets for giving just six runs in this match. Amy Satterthwaite with 19 runs was the top score in a New Zealand innings were only four batsmen made double figures. In replay to this low score, English women easily gained the target score in 17 overs with the help of Claire Taylor’s unbeaten 39 runs and wicket keeper Sarah Taylor’s 23 runs. They showed wonderful bowling and batting performance against the Kiwis in the final. It was the second time this year that England had defeated New Zealand in the climax of a major tournament after their victory in World Cup final in Sydney in March. English players Katherine Brunt was awarded the ‘Player of the match’ for her 3 wickets in 6 runs and Claire Taylor was awarded the ‘Player of the tournament’, for her total runs199 in the World T20.

ICC WOMEN T20 WORLD CUP 2009

The ICC Women T20 World Cup 2009 is the inaugural edition of this premier tournament. It has a unique feature of the ICC T20 Men’s World Cup and this world cup is simultaneously going on with the Men’s World Cup. Matches were played at three English grounds – Lord’s and The Oval in London, and Trent Bridge in Nottingham. The inaugural edition of this tournament was started on 11th June 2009. Eight teams were participated in this tournament and the semi-finals and final on the same day as the men’s main tournament. The teams have been divided into two groups. Australia, New Zealand, West Indies, South Africa were in group A and India, England, Sri Lanka, Pakistan were in group B. In this tournament, India, Australia, New Zealand and England women were reached in the semi final. In the first semi final, New Zealand and Indian women were played and New Zealand women won the match by 52 runs. In the second semi final, England and Australia women were played An England woman won the match 8 wickets. So England and New Zealand women were reached in the final of this tournament. In the final on 21st June, England defeated New Zealand by six wickets, and they grab the inaugural Twenty20 Women’s World Cup.

ICC T20 WORLD CUP 2009 WINNERS - PAKISTAN

Pakistan made a history in cricket, because they defeated Sri Lanka by eight wickets in the final of ICC T20 World Cup cricket tournament played at Lord’s in London on Sunday. It was their first major title in 17 years, because they last won a major tournament in 1992 World cup under the leadership of Imran Khan. They were the runners up of the inaugural World Twenty20 in South Africa two years ago. All the people were surprised about their victory in this T20 World Cup, becuase they had come into this tournament loaded by troubles at their nation and was also suffeing lack of match practice. Certainly this victory is a tonic for this cricket mad nation that will help to cheer this nation. In the final of this T20 World cup, Srilanka won the toss and elected to bat first and they scored 138/6 with the help of Kumar Sangakkara’s 64 not out and Angelo Mathews 35 not out runs. In replay to the target score of 139 runs, Pakistan batted very well and they easily achieved this score in 18.4 overs with the help of Shahid Afridi’s 54 runs and Kamran Akmal’s 37 runs. Shahid Afridi was selected as ‘Man of the Match’ and Srilanka’s player Tillakaratne Dilshan was awarded ‘Man of the Series’.

HISTORY

Pakistan Cricket team is one of the best and most challenging cricket team in the world. This team is controlled by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and it is a full member of the International Cricket Council(ICC) with Test and One Day International status. It hold the position of 6th in Tests and 5th in ODI’s in ICC rank listing This country has produced some great players including Fazal Mahmood, Hanif Mohammad, Sarfaraz Nawaz, Mushtaq Mohammad, Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Abdul Qadir, Wasim Akram, Inzamam-ul-Haq,Saeed Anwar, Waqar Younis, Mohammad Yousuf and Shoaib Akhtar etc. The team has played in all Cricket World Cups since 1975 and gained many achievements in cricket.  This team won 1992 World Cup and also runners up of 1999 World . This team was also reached in the semi finals in 1983 and 1987 World Cups. 1992 Cricket World Cup victory is most remembered for the comeback of Pakistan after the few loss of  matches.  The 2007 Cricket World Cup was one of the biggest upsets of Pakistan, because Pakistan was defeated by the young team Ireland and was out of that World cup in first round. Also they faced a tragedy, because their coach Bob Woolmer was died during that World cup.They were also runners up in the inaugural ICC World Twenty20 in 2007. They were defeated by their always rival India in the final of that World cup. In this second 20-20 world Cup, Pakistan is in group B along with England and Netherlands. Younis Khan is a Captain of the 15 Pakistan squad and coached by Intikhab Alam. Younis Khan (Capt), Salman Butt, Nasir Jamshed, Khalid Latif, Shahzab Hasan, Umar Amin, Ahmed Shahzad, Misbah-ul-Haq, Faisal Iqbal, Fawad Alam, Shoaib Malik, Shahid Afridi, Sohail Tanvir, Yasir Arafat, Kamran Younis, Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Rao Iftikhar, Aitzaz Cheema, Mohammad Aamir, Wahab Riaz, Imran Ali, Danish Kaneria, Yasir Shah, Kamran Akmal, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Abdul Razzaq, Rana Naved, Imran Nazir, Abdul Rehman are the players of this team. In the group round of this World cup, they were defeated by England, but they gained victory over Netherlands and entered in super eight round. In the super eight round, they were defeated by Srilanka, but gained victory over New Zealand and Ireland. So they were entered into the semi final of this world cup. In the semi final, they gained victory over South Africa and entered in the final. In the final, they defeated Srilanka by eight wickets and won the ICC T20 World cup.