Due to the rising popularity of Twenty20 Cricket, named for its 20-over per side format, a World T20 was first held in the men’s cricket in 2007 involving all the major league cricketing nations. Two years later in 2009, the first women’s World T20 was held. In November 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) renamed the tournament T20 World Cup for men and did the same for women’s cricket the following year. Although the tournament is now called the T20 World Cup, it is still not on par with the original 50-over World Cup played only every four years. Rather, the T20 World Cup follows the former World T20 tradition—i.e. it is played every one or two years almost akin to US sporting events such as NFL Superbowl, NBA Championship, Baseball World Series. However, there was a five-year gap between the last two men’s World T20/T20 World Cup championships and a three-year gap between the last women’s World T20/T20 World Cup championship in 2020 and the next in 2023, representing the largest gaps to date between the World T20/T20 World Cup championships for both men and women.
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*The “Player of the Final” in the women’s World T20/T20 World Cup is always from the winning side. As such, the award recipient’s team is not separately indicated.