| Administrator: | England and Wales Cricket Board |
| Cricket Format: | Twenty20 |
| Tournament Format: | League system |
| Champions: | Surrey |
| Count: | 1 |
| Participants: | 32 |
| Most Runs: | Ebony Rainford-Brent (90) |
| Most Wickets: | Jodie Dibble (6) Abbi Aitken (6) |
| Next Year: | 2010 |
| Next Tournament: | 2010 Women's Twenty20 Cup |
The 2009 Women's Twenty20 Cup was the inaugural cricket Women's Twenty20 Cup tournament. It took place in July, with 32 teams taking part: 30 county teams plus Wales and Scotland. Surrey Women won the Twenty20 Cup, as champions of Division One. The tournament ran alongside the 50-over 2009 Women's County Championship.[1]
Teams played matches within a series of divisions with the winners of the top division being crowned the Champions. Matches were played using a Twenty20 format.
The championship worked on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:[2]
Win: 2 points.
Tie
1 point.
Loss: 0 points.
Abandoned/Cancelled: 1 point.
The 2009 Women's Twenty20 Cup was divided into eight divisions, Division One to Division Eight. Teams played each other once.
| Division One | Berkshire | Kent | Surrey | Sussex | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division Two | Lancashire | Somerset | Warwickshire | Yorkshire | |
| Division Three | Cheshire | Derbyshire | Essex | Middlesex | |
| Division Four | Devon | Scotland | Staffordshire | Worcestershire | |
| Division Five | Hampshire | Hertfordshire | Norfolk | Northamptonshire | |
| Division Six | Durham | Gloucestershire | Wales | Wiltshire | |
| Division Seven | Cumbria | Dorset | Northumberland | Shropshire | |
| Division Eight | Buckinghamshire | Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire | Oxfordshire | Suffolk |
| Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surrey (C) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | −0.36 | 0 | 5 | |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | +0.97 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Berkshire | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −0.40 | 0 | 2 | |
| Sussex | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1.05 | 0 | 2 |
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[3]
| Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Somerset | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1.23 | 0 | 5 | |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | +0.45 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Yorkshire | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | −0.05 | 0 | 3 | |
| Warwickshire | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | −1.63 | 0 | 1 |
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[4]
| Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essex | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | +0.61 | 0 | 5 | |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | +1.08 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Middlesex | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | −0.25 | 0 | 3 | |
| Derbyshire | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | −1.23 | 0 | 1 |
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[5]
| Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devon | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1.03 | 0 | 4 | |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0.47 | 0 | 4 | ||
| Worcestershire | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −0.30 | 0 | 4 | |
| Scotland | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1.17 | 0 | 0 |
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[6]
| Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northamptonshire | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1.13 | 0 | 4 | |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2.73 | 0 | 4 | ||
| Norfolk | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0.99 | 0 | 2 | |
| Hertfordshire | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0.02 | 0 | 2 |
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[7]
| Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Durham | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | − | 0 | 3 | |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | − | 0 | 3 | ||
| Wales | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | − | 0 | 3 | |
| Wiltshire | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | − | 0 | 3 |
All games abandoned due to rain.
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[8]
| Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cumbria | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | − | 0 | 3 | |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | − | 0 | 3 | ||
| Northumberland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | − | 0 | 3 | |
| Shropshire | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | − | 0 | 3 |
All games abandoned due to rain.
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[9]
| Team | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oxfordshire | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0.65 | 0 | 6 | |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0.71 | 0 | 4 | ||
| Buckinghamshire | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1.37 | 0 | 2 | |
| Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | − | 0 | 0 |
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[10]
| width=125 | Player | width=125 | Team | width=60 | Matches | width=60 | Innings | width=60 | Runs | width=60 | Average | width=60 | width=60 | 100s | width=60 | 50s | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ebony Rainford-Brent | Surrey | 2 | 2 | 90 | 45.00 | 58 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| Charlotte Edwards | Kent | 2 | 1 | 71 | – | 71 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| Amara Carr | Devon | 3 | 3 | 63 | 31.50 | 39 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Penny Everett | Suffolk | 2 | 2 | 62 | 62.00 | 58 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| Alice Macleod | Berkshire | 2 | 1 | 60 | 60.00 | 60 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| width=125 | Player | width=125 | Team | width=60 | Balls | width=60 | Wickets | width=60 | Average | width=60 | BBI | width=60 | 5w |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jodie Dibble | Devon | 48 | 6 | 5.16 | 4/1 | 0 | |||||||
| Abbi Aitken | Scotland | 54 | 6 | 9.33 | 3/21 | 0 | |||||||
| Beth MacGregor | Essex | 47 | 5 | 3.60 | 3/6 | 0 | |||||||
| Fi Morris | Oxfordshire | 48 | 5 | 4.00 | 3/6 | 0 | |||||||
| Emma Sampson | Surrey | 36 | 5 | 4.20 | 3/12 | 0 |