This was the first ICC event won by England.
Kevin Pietersen was named as player of the tournament.
Although the tournament was held every two years beginning in 2007, the scheduled ICC Champions Trophy One Day International tournament to be held in the West Indies in 2010 was revised to a Twenty20 format because the 2008 Champions Trophy tournament in Pakistan was postponed due to security concerns and there was a need to correct the international cricketing tournament calendar.
This ICC World Twenty20 took place only 10 months after the last one.
Suresh Raina became the third man, the second in the ICC World Twenty20 and the first Indian to hit a century in a Twenty20 International.