| Administrator | England and Wales Cricket Board |
|---|---|
| Cricket format | Limited overs cricket(50 overs per innings) |
| Tournament format | Knockout |
| Champions | Gloucestershire |
| Count | 3 |
| Participants | 60 |
| Matches | 60 (including replay) |
| Most runs | 304 Kim Barnett (Gloucestershire) |
| Most wickets | 12 Stephen Foster (Northumberland) |
| Previous year | 1999 |
| Previous tournament | 1999 NatWest Trophy |
| Next year | 2001 |
| Next tournament | 2001 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy |
The 2000 NatWest Trophy was the 20th and last NatWest Trophy before being renamed as the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy for the 2001 season. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 2 May and 26 August 2000.[1] The tournament was won by Gloucestershire who defeated Warwickshire by 22 runs in the final at Lord's.
Format
The 18 first-class counties, were joined by all twenty Minor Counties, plus Huntingdonshire. They were also joined by the cricket boards of Derbyshire, Durham, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire. The national teams of Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands and Scotland once again took part in the tournament.
The tournament was a knockout with four rounds before the quarter-final and semi-final stages. The winners of the semi-finals went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 26 August 2000.
First round
Second round
Third round
Fourth round
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
- This was the first domestic English one-day final to be concluded by the use of the Duckworth–Lewis method
References
- ^ "NatWest Trophy, 2000 – Fixtures". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
External links
- CricketArchive tournament page Archived 3 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine