This rapid-fire format of cricket has it all – big-hitting, quick-running between the wickets, athletic fielding, and classic catches.
Each team has 11 players, and the winner is the team that has scored the most runs after both sides have faced a maximum of 20 overs.
Bowlers can bowl a maximum of four overs each and each over consists of six legal deliveries. There are no restrictions on the number of bowlers used by the fielding team.
The fielding team looks to take 10 wickets or restrict the batters to as few runs as possible.
The batting side is looking to make as many runs as possible in 20 overs. If the ball goes over the boundary rope without bouncing it is six runs. It is four runs if it bounces over the rope.
Cricket T20 Facts
- Cricket returned to the Commonwealth Games for the first time in 24 years at Birmingham 2022 when women’s T20 made its debut. The previous time cricket was played at the Games was in the men’s 50-over format.
- Australia’s Beth Mooney was the leading run-scorer in Birmingham with 179 runs. India’s Renuka Singh was the leading wicket-taker with 11 scalps.
- A cricket pitch is 22 yards (20.12 m) long and 10 ft (3.05 m) wide.
- New Zealand's Sophie Devine holds the record for the fastest century in Women's T20 history, achieving the feat in only 36 balls.
- Deandra Dottin has the fastest century in Women’s T20 Internationals. The Barbados-born cricketer’s century against South Africa at the 2010 World Cup came off 38 balls. The West Indies batter finished with 112 runs off 45 balls, with seven fours and nine sixes.
