The 2009 ICC WORLD TWENTY20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second WORLD TWENTY20. The tournament consists of 12 teams and is contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers, with the championship held every two years. The inaugural event, the 2007 ICC WORLD TWENTY20, was staged in South Africa and was won by India, who became the first WORLD T20 Champions after defeating Pakistan in the finals.