The ICC World Twenty20 2009 will be the second time a world event for Twenty20 cricket has been held.
The event, which feature 12 teams in the men's tournament and eight teams in the women's competition, will be staged in June 2009 at Lord's, The Oval, Trent Bridge and Taunton.
The inaugural ICC World Twenty20 competition took place in South Africa in September 2007.
The competition, which lasted for just two weeks, was a thrilling event which culminated in India's dramatic five run defeat of Pakistan at Johannesburg.
There were many memorable matches, not least the tie between India-Pakistan in Durban in the group stages which saw the first bowl out at an ICC World Twenty20 event, Bangladesh's victory over the West Indies and Zimbabwe's shock defeat of Australia at Cape Town.
