2001 British Isles Championship

2001 British Isles Championship or 2001 Triple Crown Tournament

Administrator(s)	English Cricket Board
Cricket format	Limited overs cricket
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin
Host(s)	England
Champions	[England] CB XI (2nd title)
Participants	4
Matches played	6
Official website	Cricket Europe

The 2001 British Isles Championship is a cricket tournament that took place in 2001 in England.^[1] This was the last of the nine tournaments initiated to help in the development of cricket in British Isles. This tournament was later replaced with European Cricket Championship. The tournament marked the comeback of England Cricket Board XI who won it after the previous tournament when they came last. Scotland came second. The busy schedule for Scotland and Ireland who now were ICC members meant that having future tournaments was not possible. ECB initiated the process where these teams could play in the county championship besides the ICC-Europe tournaments.

Teams

•  England Cricket Board XI
•  Ireland
•  Scotland
•  Wales^[2]

Group stage

Team P W L T NR Points  England CB XI 3 3 0 0 0 6  Scotland 3 2 1 0 0 4  Wales 3 1 2 0 0 2  Ireland 3 0 3 0 0 0 Fixtures  England CB XI beat  Scotland by 32 runs 14 August, Arundel Castle ECB XI 214-10 (P Bryson 66, S Chapman 56, R Howitt 54, P Hoffmann 5-34) Scotland 182-10 (C Smith 42, B Patterson 39, I Parkin 3-60)  Wales beat  Ireland by 2 wickets 14 August, Horsham Ireland 149-10 (A Patterson 39, P Jenkins 3-24, K Bell 3-29) Wales 150-8 (A Jones 45)  Scotland beat  Wales by 6 wickets 15 August Wales 120-10 (S Morris 28, P Hoffmann 2-15, G Maiden 2-24, C Wright 2-26) Scotland 121-4 (C Smith 35, C Wright 21*)  England CB XI beat  Ireland by 6 wickets 15 August, Stirlands Ireland 109-10 (D Joyce 43, C Batt 3-14, M Sharp 3-15) ECB XI 111-4  Scotland beat  Ireland by 3 wickets 16 August, East Grinstead Ireland 211 (P Davy 53, A Patterson 36, C Wright 3-35) Scotland 214-7 (G Maiden 79*, C Wright 45*, A McCoubrey 3-17, J McGonigle 3-22)  England CB XI beat  Wales by 102 runs 16 August, Brighton ECB XI 213-6 (C Amos 65, P Bryson 50, S Foster 38) Wales 111-10 (M Sharp 3-15, S Chapman 3-18, I Parkin 3-19) Result  England CB XI won the tournament winning for second time making a comeback from the disastrous last tournament where they were win less.  Scotland came second in the tournament. References http://www.cricketeurope4.net/CRICKETEUROPE/DATABASE/1997/TOURNAMENTS/TRIPLECROWN/about.shtml