England cricket team biography - T20 world cup 2010

  • Played its first Twenty20 International against Australia at Southampton in June 2005, winning by 100 runs.
  • Finished third in its group in the second round of ICC WT20 2009.
  • Since losing in the ICC CWC 1992 Final, England has only appeared in two semi-finals of ICC events, at the ICC Champions Trophy in 2004 and 2009.
  • Finished fifth in the Super Eight table at ICC CWC 2007.
  • Lost to Australia in the semi-final of the ICC CT 2009.
  • Finished fourth in its group in the second round of ICC WT20 2007.
  • Was the first country to stage a domestic Twenty20 competition, in 2003.
  • Sussex won the Twenty20 Cup in England in 2009, beating Somerset by 63 runs in the final at Birmingham.