2001 NatWest Series

2001 NatWest Series
2001 NatWest Series
Part of Australian cricket team in England in 2001
Date	7–23 June 2001
Location	England
Result	Australia beat Pakistan in the final
Player of the series	Waqar Younis (Pak)
England
Teams
England	Australia
Captains
Alec Stewart	Steve Waugh
Most runs
Marcus Trescothick (249)	Ricky Ponting (298)
Most wickets
Darren Gough (10)	Shane Warne (10)
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The 2001 NatWest Series was a

61st The Ashes

series.

Venues

Nottingham	London	Birmingham	Leeds	Manchester	Cardiff	Bristol	Chester-le-Street
Trent Bridge Capacity: 15,000	The Oval Capacity: 23,500	Edgbaston Cricket Ground Capacity: 25,000	Headingley Capacity: 17,500	Old Trafford Capacity: 15,000	Sophia Gardens Capacity: 15,643	Bristol County Ground Capacity: 17,500	Riverside Ground Capacity: 19,000

Squads

England^[3]	Australia	Pakistan
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 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 wk ) Saqlain Mushtaq Shoaib Akhtar

Andy Caddick.^[4]

Fixtures

Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts
Australia	6	4	1	1	9
Pakistan	6	4	1	1	9
England	6	0	6	0	0

Pool matches

1st ODI

7 June 2001 (D/N)
Scorecard

England 165 (47.2 overs)	v	Pakistan 273/6 (50 overs)
Nick Knight 59* (115) Shahid Afridi 3/15 (7.2 overs)		Saeed Anwar 77 (106) Dominic Cork 2/44 (10 overs)

Pakistan won by 108 runs
Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham
Umpires: Barry Dudleston (Eng) and John Hampshire (Eng)
Player of the match: Saeed Anwar (Pak)

Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

Paul Collingwood (Eng) made his ODI debut.
Points: Pakistan 2, England 0.

2nd ODI

9 June 2001
Scorecard

Pakistan 257 (49.5 overs)	v	Australia 258/3 (45.4 overs)
Yousuf Youhana 91* (103) Shane Warne 3/52 (10 overs)		Ricky Ponting 70 (68) Shoaib Akhtar 1/41 (5 overs)

Australia won by 7 wickets
Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
Umpires: Alan Whitehead (Eng) and Peter Willey (Eng)
Player of the match: Ricky Ponting (Aus)

Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
Points: Australia 2, Pakistan 0.

3rd ODI

10 June 2001
Scorecard

England 268/4 (50 overs)	v	Australia 272/5 (49.3 overs)
Nick Knight 84 (116) Brett Lee 1/45 (10 overs)		Ricky Ponting 102 (116) Darren Gough 2/44 (10 overs)

Australia won by 5 wickets
The Royal & Sun Alliance County Ground, Bristol
Umpires: John Hampshire (Eng) and Ray Julian (Eng)
Player of the match: Ricky Ponting (Aus)

England won the toss and elected to bat.
Owais Shah (Eng) made his ODI debut.
Points: Australia 2, England 0.

4th ODI

12 June 2001
Scorecard

England 240 (50 overs)	v	Pakistan 242/8 (50 overs)
Marcus Trescothick 137 (142) Waqar Younis 2/20 (10 overs)		Andy Caddick 2/37 (10 overs)

Pakistan won by 2 runs

Lord's Cricket Ground, London
Umpires: Neil Mallender (Eng) and Ken Palmer (Eng)
Player of the match: Marcus Trescothick

(Eng)

England won the toss and elected to field.
Points: Pakistan 2, England 0.

5th ODI

14 June 2001 (D/N)
Scorecard

England 86 (32.4 overs)	v	Australia 208/7 (48 overs)
Dominic Cork 17 (18) Jason Gillespie 3/20 (9 overs)		Steve Waugh 64 (83) Alan Mullally 3/50 (20 overs)

Australia won by 125 runs (D/L)

John Holder (Eng) and Jeremy Lloyds (Eng)
Player of the match: Jason Gillespie

(Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
Points: Australia 2, England 0.

6th ODI

16 June 2001
Scorecard

Pakistan	v	Australia

Match abandoned
Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street
Umpires: Allan Jones (Eng) and David Shepherd (Eng)

No toss.
Points: Australia 1, Pakistan 1.

7th ODI

17 June 2001
Scorecard

England 156 (45.2 overs)	v	Pakistan 153/4 (39.5 overs)
Ben Hollioake 53 (66) Waqar Younis 7/36 (10 overs)		Abdul Razzaq 75 (103) Dominic Cork 2/32 (5.5 overs)

Pakistan awarded the match

John Holder (Eng) and Mervyn Kitchen (Eng)
Player of the match: Waqar Younis

(Pak)

Pakistan won the toss and elected to field.
Waqar Younis became the third bowler in ODIs to claim seven wickets.^[5]
Points: Pakistan 2, England 0.

8th ODI

19 June 2001 (D/N)
Scorecard

Pakistan 290/9 (50 overs)	v	Australia 254 (46.3 overs)
Saleem Elahi 79 (91) Brett Lee 2/41 (10 overs)		Adam Gilchrist 70 (44) Waqar Younis 6/59 (8 overs)

Pakistan won by 36 runs
Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Umpires: Neil Mallender (Eng) George Sharp (Eng)
Player of the match: Waqar Younis (Pak)

Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
Points: Pakistan 2, Australia 0.

9th ODI

21 June 2001 (D/N)
Scorecard

England 176 (43.2 overs)	v	Australia 177/2 (30.1 overs)
Nick Knight 48 (81) Brett Lee 3/63 (10 overs)		Adam Gilchrist 80 (90) Robert Croft 1/21 (7 overs)

Australia won by 8 wickets

Kennington Oval, London
Umpires: David Constant (Eng) George Sharp (Eng)
Player of the match: Ricky Ponting

(Aus)

England won the toss and elected to bat.
Points: Australia 2, England 0.

Final

10th ODI

23 June 2001
Scorecard

Pakistan 152 (42.3 overs)	v	Australia 156/1 (26.3 overs)
Saeed Anwar 27 (40) Shane Warne 3/56 (10 overs)		Adam Gilchrist 76* (93)

Australia won by 9 wickets

Lord's Cricket Ground, London
Umpires: David Shepherd (Eng) and Peter Willey

(Eng)

Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
Australia won the 2001 NatWest Series.

Statistics

Most runs^[6]		Most wickets^[7]
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

^ "2001 NatWest Bank Series". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 25 February 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
^ "NatWest Series, Final: Australia v Pakistan at Lord's, Jun 23, 2001". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
^ "England call up Collingwood for NatWest Series". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
^ "Hoggard called up for injured Caddick". Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
^ "Waqar and Razzaq steer Pakistan to a fabulous victory". EPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
^ "Records / NatWest Series, 2001 / Most runs". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
^ "Records / NatWest Series, 2001 / Most wickets". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

External links

2001 NatWest Series at ESPNcricinfo

[1] "2001 NatWest Bank Series". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 25 February 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

[2] "NatWest Series, Final: Australia v Pakistan at Lord's, Jun 23, 2001". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

[Eng-Squad-3] "England call up Collingwood for NatWest Series". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 19 May 2016.

[4] "Hoggard called up for injured Caddick". Cricinfo. Retrieved 11 March 2017.

[5] "Waqar and Razzaq steer Pakistan to a fabulous victory". EPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 March 2017.

[6] "Records / NatWest Series, 2001 / Most runs". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

[7] "Records / NatWest Series, 2001 / Most wickets". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

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Preceding season: International cricket in 2000–01
May 2001	Pakistan in England
June 2001	India in Zimbabwe NatWest Series Zimbabwe Tri-series Australia women in England
July 2001	Australia in England Sri Lanka Tri-series West Indies in Zimbabwe Australia women in Ireland
August 2001	India in Sri Lanka West Indies in Kenya Asian Test Challenge
Following season: International cricket in 2001–02