The 2001 NatWest Series was a One Day International cricket tri-series sponsored by the National Westminster Bank that took place in England between 7 and 23 June 2001. The series involved the national teams of England, Australia and Pakistan. Ten matches were played in total, with each team playing one another thrice during the group stage. The teams which finished in the top two positions following the group stages qualified for the final, which Australia won by defeating Pakistan at Lord's on 23 June by 9 wickets. Preceding the series, England played Pakistan in a two Test series, while following the series, 61st The Ashes series.
Venues
Nottingham London Birmingham Leeds Manchester Cardiff Bristol Chester-le-Street Trent BridgeCapacity: 15,000 The OvalCapacity: 23,500 Edgbaston Cricket GroundCapacity: 25,000 HeadingleyCapacity: 17,500 Old TraffordCapacity: 15,000 Sophia GardensCapacity: 15,643 Bristol County GroundCapacity: 17,500 Riverside GroundCapacity: 19,000
Squads Alec Stewart (c), (wk) Marcus Trescothick Ali Brown Nick Knight Michael Vaughan Paul Collingwood Ben Hollioake Darren Gough Dominic Cork Andy Caddick Matthew Hoggard Owais Shah Robert Croft Mark Ealham Alan Mullally Steve Waugh (c) Matthew Hayden Mark Waugh Ricky Ponting Adam Gilchrist (wk) Michael Bevan Damien Martyn Ian Harvey Andrew Symonds Jason Gillespie Damien Fleming Brett Lee Shane Warne Glenn McGrath Waqar Younis (c) Saeed Anwar Faisal Iqbal Shahid Afridi Saleem Elahi Abdul Razzaq Shoaib Malik Inzamam-ul-Haq Yousuf Youhana Imran Nazir Azhar Mahmood Younis Khan Wasim Akram Rashid Latif (wk) Saqlain Mushtaq Shoaib Akhtar
Matthew Hoggard called up to the England Squad to cover for injured Andy Caddick.
Fixtures TeamPldWLNRPts 6 4 1 1 9 6 4 1 1 9 6 0 6 0 0
Pool matches 1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
4th ODI
5th ODI
6th ODI
7th ODI
8th ODI
9th ODI
Final
10th ODI
Statistics Most runs Most wickets Ricky Ponting 298 Waqar Younis 17 Yousuf Youhana 263 Shane Warne 10 Marcus Trescothick 249 Brett Lee 10 Adam Gilchrist 248 Darren Gough 9 Nick Knight 213 Glenn McGrath 8
References
External links 2001 NatWest Series at ESPNcricinfo