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 What is the Twenty20 Cup?
Around the Academy:
Surrey's Ian Ward, England's women's captain Clare Connor and Surrey's James Benning
Everyone wants their hands on the trophy
If you love watching sixes fly and wickets tumble, then you'll have been loving this summer's Twenty20 Cup action.

Even faster and even more exciting than one-day cricket, it all came to a head in a one-day spectacular at Edgbaston with Leicestershire Foxes defeating Surrey Lions in a showpiece showdown.

Unlike one-day games, the Twenty20 games only last about three hours with a few special rules to speed things up a bit. They are:

  • Each innings should last no longer than 75 minutes

  • Batsman must be at the crease in 90 seconds of a wicket falling

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

  • No-balls will be penalised with a free hit the very next ball, batsman cannot be given out on a free hit unless they're run-out

    You can find out more about here:

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    • Did you know?
    Surrey Lions won the first Twenty20 Cup final in 2003
    There were a massive 259 sixes smashed in last year's competition
    Yorkshire's Michael Lumb was the top six-hitter with 13
    On average, a wicket fell every 16 balls

    The 2004 Twenty20 Cup final
    Will be at Edgbaston on 7 August

    Ashes to Smashes
    England and Australia will play a Twenty20 match at the Rose Bowl in Hampshire next summer
    The first international Twenty20 game will take place when the England women's team play New Zealand in Hove on 5 August


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