A week after England won the inaugural ICC World Women's Twenty20 Cup at Lord's, the ECB Head of Women's Cricket Clare Connor has paid tribute to everybody involved in helping to make the first six days of the tournament, that were held in Taunton to be such an outstanding success.

The boss of England Women's Cricket said: "Now that the tournament has finished and there has been time to reflect on the past couple of weeks, I would like to extend an enormous thank you to the outstanding management team at Somerset CCC."

"I'm sure the other seven international teams would agree with me when I say that we simply could not have asked for any more from a venue - you left no stone unturned. The pitch was superb, the ground looked absolutely stunning and the numbers of children that came through the gates was overwhelming."

The former England Women's captain went on: "You have genuinely played your part in leaving a legacy for girls' cricket through the immense effort that went into staging 12 consecutive Twenty20 matches at Taunton. Thank you so much for your enthusiasm, professionalism and, of course, great humour!"

Andy Nash the Chairman of Somerset CCC emphasised the vital role part played by the other venues in the town who also helped the ICC T20 be such a success.

The Chairman said: "I wish to place on record the wonderful and wholehearted support given to SCCC by Kings College, Queens College and Taunton Vale Cricket Club. The warm welcome they gave the international teams, and the superb wickets they prepared, were very much appreciated."

He went on: "Each of the organisations played a major role in helping us make such a success of hosting the ICC T20 World Cup in Taunton and they deserve to share in the many accolades we've received. This was teamwork of the highest order and the spirit of cricket at its best: we are extremely grateful to them."

Chief Executive Richard Gould said: "The training venues were key in making the event a success, as we had to provide facilities for eight international teams for a period of two weeks."

The Somerset boss went on: "All of the venues showed great flexibility in providing the teams with a diverse range of needs, and the warm welcome afforded to the women was geatly appreciated.  The schools and Taunton Vale were a great credit to the region, and I hope they enjoyed being part of such a major international event."

Former Somerset favourite Dennis Breakwell who is the Cricket Coach and Head Groundsman at King's College, said: "The women's teams from several of the countries involved came and made use of our facilities a lot during the two weeks of the ICC T20 and we were very pleased to have them here."

He went on: "We were delighted to be involved in providing whatever was required to help the tournament run as smoothly as it did and I was very impressed with the standard of cricket that I saw them playing."

Last week, three Kings College students, Alex Barrow, Jos Buttler and Craig Meschede, who are all coached by Dennis Breakwell, played for the Somerset SecondXI that beat their Gloucestershire counterparts at Taunton Vale.

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