2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy
Administrator(s) | England and Wales Cricket Board |
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Cricket format | Limited overs cricket (50 overs) |
Tournament format(s) | Knockout |
Champions | Gloucestershire (4th title) |
Participants | 54 |
Matches | 59 |
Most runs | Vikram Solanki 270 (for Worcestershire) |
Most wickets | Andrew Clarke 11 (for Buckinghamshire) |
The 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy was an English county cricket tournament, held between 29 August 2002 and 30 August 2003.[1] The competition was won by Gloucestershire who beat Worcestershire by 7 wickets at Lord's.
Format
[edit]The eighteen first-class counties were joined in the tournament by 20 Minor Counties (Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Devon, Dorset, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Wales Minor Counties and Wiltshire), as well as Huntingdonshire. The cricket boards of Durham, Derbyshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire also took part, as did the national teams of Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands and Scotland.
The tournament was a knockout with four rounds before the quarter-final and semi-final stages. The first and second rounds, which did not involve the first-class counties, were played in August and September 2002. The winners of the semi-finals went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 30 August 2003.
Fixtures
[edit]First round
[edit] 29, 30 August 2002
(scorecard) |
Cornwall
301/8 (50 overs) |
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Somerset Cricket Board
299 all out (50 overs) |
- Match extended to 2 days
29 August 2002
(scorecard) |
Cumberland
280/5 (50 overs) |
v
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Nottinghamshire Cricket Board
194 all out (50 overs) |
29 August 2002
(scorecard) |
Surrey Cricket Board
290/4 (50 overs) |
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Gloucestershire Cricket Board
273/8 (50 overs) |
29 August 2002
(scorecard) |
Hampshire Cricket Board
280/6 (50 overs) |
v
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Wiltshire
196 all out (41.4 overs) |
Damian Shirazi 101 (142)
James Hibberd 4/48 (10 overs) |
29 August 2002
(scorecard) |
Middlesex Cricket Board
239/9 (50 overs) |
v
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Derbyshire Cricket Board
201 all out (47.5 overs) |
29 August 2002
(scorecard) |
Yorkshire Cricket Board
233/8 (50 overs) |
v
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Northamptonshire Cricket Board
176 all out (43.2 overs) |
29 August 2002
(scorecard) |
Lancashire Cricket Board
229/8 (50 overs) |
v
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Oxfordshire
198 all out (48.2 overs) |
29 August 2002
(scorecard) |
Herefordshire
276/6 (50 overs) |
v
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Warwickshire Cricket Board
203 all out (47.5 overs) |
29 August 2002
(scorecard) |
Dorset
227 all out (49.4 overs) |
v
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Worcestershire Cricket Board
228/5 (46 overs) |
Second round
[edit] 12 September 2002
(scorecard) |
Netherlands
96 all out (34.4 overs) |
v
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Bedfordshire
97/0 (15.3 overs) |
Neil Stanley 56
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12 September 2002
(scorecard) |
Buckinghamshire
160 all out (49.5 overs) |
v
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Shropshire
123/4 (27.1 overs) |
12 September 2002
(scorecard) |
Durham Cricket Board
274/8 (50 overs) |
v
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Herefordshire
224 all out (47.2 overs) |
12 September 2002
(scorecard) |
Essex Cricket Board
302/8 (50 overs) |
v
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Surrey Cricket Board
253 all out (45.5 overs) |
John Fry 69
Tauseef Ali 4/66 (9 overs) |
12 September 2002
(scorecard) |
Staffordshire
249/6 (50 overs) |
v
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Hampshire Cricket Board
144 all out (36.4 overs) |
12 September 2002
(scorecard) |
Leicestershire Cricket Board
175 all (47.4 overs) |
v
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Kent Cricket Board
176/3 (40.4 overs) |
12 September 2002
(scorecard) |
Middlesex Cricket Board
194 all out (44 overs) |
v
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Cambridgeshire
200/3 (44.3 overs) |
12 September 2002
(scorecard) |
Northumberland
352 all out (49.4 overs) |
v
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Yorkshire Cricket Board
226 all out (47.1 overs) |
12 September 2002
(scorecard) |
Cornwall
248/7 (50 overs) |
v
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Wales Minor Counties
224 all out (48.2 overs) |
12 September 2002
(scorecard) |
Sussex Cricket Board
225 all out (48.5 overs) |
v
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Worcestershire Cricket Board
227/4 (43.5 overs) |
Third round
[edit] 7 May 2003
(scorecard) |
Worcestershire
311/4 (50 overs) |
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Worcestershire Cricket Board
141/9 (50 overs) |
Fourth round
[edit]Quarter-finals
[edit] 10, 11 June 2003
(scorecard) |
Worcestershire
216/8 (50 overs) |
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Leicestershire
141 all out (43.5 overs) |
- Reserve day used
Semi-finals
[edit]Final
[edit] 30 August 2003
(scorecard) |
Worcestershire
149 all out (46.3 overs) |
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Gloucestershire
150/3 (20.3 overs) |
References
[edit]- ^ "Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, 2003 – Fixtures". Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 October 2009.