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Twenty20 cricket started in England in 2003

The first matches were played as a county competition in June that year The England and Wales Cricket Board designed a 20-over format to fit a match into an evening, and the first games took place on 13 June 2003. A professional Indian league, the IPL, arrived in 2008 and changed the money in the sport. Twenty20 internationals began in 2005. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The first matches were played as a county competition in June that year. The figure is taken from England and Wales Cricket Board, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.