Claire Taylor

Women's cricket, led by the England side, broke new ground and found new followers this year

Mitchell Johnson capped a tumultuous year by becoming the sixth winner of the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, after being named as the ICC World Player of the Year

England batsman Claire Taylor has been named Women's Cricketer of the Year at the ICC Awards ceremony in Johannesburg

England Women will be without wicketkeeper-batsman Sarah Taylor and their best batsman Claire Taylor for their upcoming tour of West Indies scheduled between October 31 and November 14 this year

Sarah Taylor's sublime 120 led England to another convincing win over Australia

England's double World Cup-winners came crashing back down to earth with a bump as Australia romped to victory

The ICC's panel of experts picked the best XI from the players in the Women's World Twenty20. Here's the XI and what they did in the tournament

The England women's selectors have stuck with the tried, tested and successful to name an unchanged squad for Australia's forthcoming tour

The inaugural ICC Women's World Twenty20 witnessed several statistical highlights. Cricinfo looks at some of the interesting numbers from the tournament

England prevailed to become Women's Twenty20 champions at Lord's

England and Australia women served up a treat of a semi-final at The Oval on Friday in front of crowds of around 10,000, more than those who witnessed New Zealand beat India at Trent Bridge the day before

Claire Taylor has worked hard over the last ten years to become the world's premier batter

Claire Taylor's brilliant 76 not out from 53 balls helped England chase down a formidable target of 164

Andrew Strauss has capped a memorable 12 months, which began with his recall to the Test team and culminated in his accession to the Test captaincy, by being named as England's Player of the Year for the second time in four years

The 146th edition of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack is launched today and reflects on 12 months where Twenty20 has continued to reshape the game and the sport has had to confront a range of major challenges

Claire Taylor, the leading run-scorer in England's recent victory in the Women's World Cup in Australia, has made further history by being named as one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year

The pitches, slower at the end of Australia's summer season, aided spin but did not let the bowlers to dominate the batsmen; the two-week format allowed each side a minimum of four games

Five England players have made it to the women's World Cup 2009 XI announced by the ICC day after the team lifted their third world title by beating New Zealand by four wickets in Sydney

A modest Nicki Shaw, named Player of the Match, put her bowling down to luck, while crediting the opening pace bowler Katherine Brunt for building up the pressure ahead of her own spell