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2003 Twenty20 Cup final
Event2003 Twenty20 Cup
Warwickshire
Bears
Surrey
Lions
115 119/1
18.1 overs 10.5 overs
Surrey won by 9 wickets
Date19 July 2003
VenueTrent Bridge, Nottingham
Man of the matchJimmy Ormond (Surrey)
UmpiresBarry Dudleston and John Holder
2004

The 2003 Twenty20 Cup final was a cricket match between Surrey County Cricket Club and Warwickshire County Cricket Club, who were known in one-day competitions as the Surrey Lions and Warwickshire Bears respectively, played on 19 July 2003 at Trent Bridge in London. It was the first final of the Twenty20 Cup, which itself was the first domestic Twenty20 competition between first-class sides.

Background

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The Twenty20 Cup was a 20 overs-per-side competition established in England and Wales in 2003, which replaced the 50 overs-per-side Benson & Hedges Cup.[1] The 20-over format was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board because they believed that a shorter version of the game was needed in order to attract families to matches.[2] In 2003, it was one of four tournaments across three different formats played by first-class county cricket teams.[3]

The competition maintained the regional group structure used by the Benson & Hedges Cup in which the eighteen county teams were split into three groups.[4] Within each group every team played each other once. The top team from each group progressed to the semi-final, along with the best second-placed team. Both semi-finals and the final were played at the same ground on the same day, marketed as "Finals' Day". Writing in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Hugh Chevallier said that it was "paradoxical" that a format designed to over quickly culminated in "the longest day of cricket anyone could remember".[4]

Match

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Summary

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A picture of a cricketer in a light blue and brown cricket kit with their bat in the air after hitting the ball
Surrey's Ali Brown scored the most runs in the match, with a score of 55.

Played on the same day as both the semi-finals,[5] the match was a day/night game. The Warwickshire captain, Knight, won the toss and elected to bat first.[6] On a pitch described by Vic Marks of The Guardian as "never reliable and which deteriorated as the day progressed",[5] Surrey's opening bowlers—Jimmy Ormond and Azhar Mahmood—were immediately in the ascendancy.[7] In the first over of the match, Warwickshire's Neil Carter was dropped by Ian Salisbury before scoring a six. Two overs later, Carter was bowled by Jimmy Ormond after deflecting the ball onto his own stumps,[8] having scored eight runs.[6] Warwickshire's other opening batter, Knight, was bowled by Ormond two overs later, having also scored eight runs. Later in the same over, Ormond collected his third wicket of the match, when Jim Troughton was caught by Ali Brown at slip, leaving the Bears on 22 for three.[a] Although Trevor Penney provided Warwickshire with some positivity in the sixth over by scoring a six, Mahmood also picked up his first wicket of the match, when Ian Bell was caught out. Ormond continued his dominance in the subsequent over, claiming the wicket of Dougie Brown caught behind. During the next five overs, Surrey switched to their slower bowlers, and the Warwickshire pair of Penney and Tony Frost were able to gradually build their run total, until Penney was bowled by Hollioake in the twelfth over for 33 runs, at which point Warwickshire's score was 63 for six.[8]

Scorecard

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Warwickshire Bears batting innings
Batsman Method of dismissal Runs Balls 4s 6s SR
Neil Carter b Jimmy Ormond 8 12 0 1 66.66
Nick Knight * b Jimmy Ormond 8 6 1 0 133.33
Ian Bell c Rikki Clarke b Azhar Mahmood 5 11 0 0 45.45
Jim Troughton c Ali Brown b Jimmy Ormond 1 3 0 0 33.33
Trevor Penney b Adam Hollioake 33 21 2 2 157.14
Dougie Brown c † Jonathan Batty b Jimmy Ormond 0 3 0 0 0.00
Tony Frost c Jimmy Ormond b Saqlain Mushtaq 31 35 1 0 88.57
Graham Wagg b Adam Hollioake 5 6 0 0 83.33
Collins Obuya c Ian Ward b Saqlain Mushtaq 17 11 1 1 154.54
Neil Smith run out 1 2 0 0 50.00
Waqar Younis not out 0 1 0 0 0.00
Extras (4 no balls, 2 wides) 6
Totals (18.1 overs) 115 6.33 runs per over
Surrey Lions bowling
Bowler Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Economy
Jimmy Ormond 4 0 11 4 2.75
Azhar Mahmood 3 0 22 1 7.33
Saqlain Mushtaq 4 0 35 2 8.75
Rikki Clarke 4 0 20 0 5.00
Adam Hollioake 3.1 0 27 2 8.52
Surrey Lions batting innings
Batsman Method of dismissal Runs Balls 4s 6s SR
Ian Ward c Waqar Younis b Graham Wagg 50 28 8 1 178.57
Ali Brown not out 55 34 6 3 161.76
Mark Ramprakash not out 4 5 1 0 80.00
Extras (1 leg bye, 2 wides) 3
Totals (14.1 overs) 118/3 10.98 runs per over
Did not bat: Rikki Clarke, Adam Hollioake *, Azhar Mahmood, Graham Thorpe, Jonathan Batty †, Ian Salisbury, Saqlain Mushtaq, Jimmy Ormond
Warwickshire Bears bowling
Bowler Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Economy
Neil Carter 2 0 20 0 10.00
Waqar Younis 4 0 29 0 7.25
Dougie Brown 2 0 24 0 12.00
Collins Obuya 1 0 18 0 18.00
Graham Wagg 1 0 20 1 20.00
Nick Knight 0.5 0 4 0 4.80

Umpires:

Key

  • * – Captain
  • † – Wicket-keeper
  • c Fielder – Indicates that the batsman was dismissed by a catch by the named fielder
  • b Bowler – Indicates which bowler gains credit for the dismissal

Notes and references

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Notes

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  1. ^ "22 for three" is cricket notation which could also be written 22/3, and signifies that the batting team has scored 22 runs, and has lost three of its ten wickets. See Scoring (cricket) for more information.

References

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  1. ^ Brett, Oliver (13 November 2002). "Pure entertainment beckons". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  2. ^ Brett, Oliver (11 September 2007). "The roots of Twenty20". BBC Sport. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  3. ^ Engel, Matthew (2004). "Notes by the editor". In Engel, Matthew (ed.). Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2004 (141 ed.). Alton, Hampshire: John Wisden & Co. Ltd. p. 23. ISBN 0-947766-83-9.
  4. ^ a b Chevallier, Hugh (2004). "Twenty20 Cup, 2003". In Engel, Matthew (ed.). Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2004 (141 ed.). Alton, Hampshire: John Wisden & Co. Ltd. pp. 826–832. ISBN 0-947766-83-9.
  5. ^ a b Marks, Vic (20 July 2003). "Ward takes it easy". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Warks vs Surr, Twenty20 Cup 2003, Final". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  7. ^ "Surrey lift Twenty20 Cup". BBC Sport. 19 July 2003. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  8. ^ a b "Twenty20 final: As it happened". BBC Sport. 19 July 2003. Retrieved 27 September 2023.

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