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1997 NatWest Trophy

Cricket tournament

Field	Value
administrator	England and Wales Cricket Board
cricket format	Limited overs cricket(60 overs per innings)
tournament format	Knockout
champions	Essex
count	2
participants	32
matches	30
most runs	333 Stuart Law (Essex)
most wickets	15 Allan Donald (Warwickshire)
previous_year	1996
previous_tournament	1996 NatWest Trophy
next_year	1998
next_tournament	1998 NatWest Trophy

The 1997 NatWest Trophy was the 17th NatWest Trophy. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 24 June and 7 September 1997. The tournament was won by Essex County Cricket Club who defeated Warwickshire County Cricket Club by 9 wickets in the final at Lord's.

Format and highlights

The 18 first-class counties, were joined by eleven Minor Counties: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cumberland, Devon, Herefordshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Shropshire and Staffordshire.

The Ireland, Scotland and Netherlands teams also participated. There was some controversy in the semi-final at the County Ground, Chelmsford, when in a tense contest Mark Ilott of Essex and Robert Croft of Glamorgan had an on-field confrontation.

The final at Lord's which was held on 7 September 1997 and was won by Essex with Stuart Law scoring 80 and collecting the Man of the Match medal.

First round

Second round

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

References

"NatWest Trophy, 1997 – Fixtures". CricketArchive.
[http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/15388.html Mark Ilott – Cricinfo]

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