Lancashire Lightning
One of the stronger teams on paper, the Lancashire Lightning have had a very strong squad of players and are certainly one of the teams to be feared in any one day format of the game. They are currently ranked third in the Twenty20 Cup Rankings
Twenty20 Cup Performances
Lancashire has a very consistent record in this tournament over the years, reaching the final once in 2005, where they lost to Somerset Sharks. They have been semi finalists twice in 2004 and 2007 and were quarter finalists in both 2008 and 2009.
In the 2009 competition they won the Northern Division losing only once in nine matches completed, winning all other eight and finishing with an impressive 17 points. They were favourites to win in the T20 Outright win betting market, but failed at the quarter final stage where they were very unfortunate to be knocked out by Somerset in a bowl out as no play was possible during the scheduled time frame.
2009/10 Squad
The squad is made up from 23 players that include top England all rounder, Andrew Flintoff and star Indian batsman, VVS Laxman.
Batsmen
| Player | Nationality | Style |
| Karl Brown | England | RHB |
| Mark Chilton | England | RHB |
| VVS Laxman | India | RHB |
| F de Plessis | SA | RHB |
| Paul Horton | Aus | RHB |
| Mal Loye | England | RHB |
| Adrian Shankar | England | RHB |
Bowlers
| Player | Nationality | Style |
| James Anderson | England | RH Fast |
| Steven Cheetham | England | R Fast Med |
| Kyle Hogg | England | R Med Fast |
| Gary Keedy | England | Slow Left Arm |
| Simon Kerrigan | England | Slow Left Arm |
| Tom Lungley | England | Left Med |
| Sajid Mahmood | England | R Fast Med |
| Oliver Newby | England | R Fast Med |
| Stephen Parry | England | Slow Left Arm |
| Tom Smith | England | Right Fast Med |
All Rounders
| Player | Nationality | Bat | Bowl |
| Andrew Flintoff | England | RHB | R Arm Fast |
| Glen Chapple | England | RHB | R Fast Med |
| Steven Croft | England | RHB | R Med Fast |
| Steve Mullaney | England | RHB | R Med Fast |
Wicket Keepers
| Player | Nationality | Style |
| Gareth Cross | England | RHB |
| Luke Sutton | England | RHB |
Top Batsmen - 2009
The batting stats for the top five Lancashire batsmen are below. Steve Croft topped the runs scored list with an excellent 259 runs in 9 matches.
| Player | Innings | Runs | Balls | Average | HS | S/R | 6's |
| Steve Croft | 9 | 259 | 192 | 37.00 | 83* | 134.89 | 8 |
| Paul Horton | 9 | 166 | 119 | 18.44 | 41 | 139.49 | 2 |
| VVS Laxman | 3 | 159 | 120 | 79.50 | 78* | 132.50 | 3 |
| Ashwell Prince | 6 | 159 | 146 | 53.00 | 44 | 108.90 | 1 |
| F de Plessis | 8 | 153 | 121 | 21.85 | 78* | 126.44 | 4 |
Top Bowlers - 2009
Below are the statistics on the Lancashire top bowlers in the 2009 Twenty20 Cup. Those who will be making T20 Cup Free Bets will find this information helpful as and when they place a bet in the Twenty20 Top Wicket taker Odds.
In 2009 the lead wicket takers were Glen Chapple and Sajid Mahmood who both took 11 wickets. See Twenty20 Cup Top Bowler betting. Their stats along with other leading wicket takers are listed below and they include best bowling performance, economy rates and averages.
| Player | Matches | Innings | Runs | Wickets | Best | Average | Economy | Mdns |
| Glen Chapple | 8 | 8 | 186 | 11 | 2-11 | 16.90 | 6.20 | 0 |
| Sajid Mahmood | 9 | 9 | 242 | 11 | 4-29 | 22.00 | 7.11 | 1 |
| Steven Parry | 9 | 9 | 223 | 10 | 3-20 | 22.30 | 6.75 | 0 |
| Gary Keedy | 9 | 9 | 190 | 6 | 2-23 | 31.66 | 6.55 | 1 |
