Coca-Cola Cup 2001 (Zimbabwe)

The Coca-Cola Cup 2001 was a three-nation tournament that was held from June 23 to July 7, 2001 in Zimbabwe in one-day cricket . In the tournament, which was part of the 2001 international cricket season, teams from India and the West Indies took part alongside the host . In the final, the West Indies were able to prevail against India with 16 runs.

prehistory

The competition took place between the India tour to Zimbabwe and the West Indies tour to Zimbabwe . Shortly before the tournament, Zimbabwean captain Heath Streak resigned as he opposed political interference in the squad selection. After further discussions, he resigned from his resignation.

format

In a preliminary round, each team played against each other three times. There were two points for a win and one point for a draw or no result. The first two of the group qualified for the final and played for the tournament victory.

Stadion

Bulawayo Harare

Venues of the competition

The following stages were designated for the competition.

Stadion	city	capacity	Games
Queens Sports Club	Bulawayo	9,000	3rd - 5th game
Harare Sports Club	Harare	10,000	1st, 2nd & 6th game; final

Squad lists

The West Indies named their roster on June 8, 2001. India named their roster on June 13, 2001. Zimbabwe named their roster on June 20, 2001.

ODI
Zimbabwe	India	West Indies
Heath Streak ( K ) Grant Flower ( UK ) Guy Whittall ( UK ) Andy Blignaut Alistair Campbell Stuart Carlisle Dilon Ebrahim Travis Friend Brian Murphy David Mutendera Mluleki Nkala Bryan Strand Tatenda Taibu ( wk ) Dirk Viljoen Craig Wishart	Sourav Ganguly ( K ) Ajit Afarkar Hemang Badani Sameer Dighe ( wk ) Rahul Dravid Harbhajan Singh Harvinder Singh Zaheer Khan VVS Laxman Debasis Mohanty Dinesh Mongia Ashish Nehra Virender Sehwag Reetinder Sodhi Sachin Tendulkar	Carl Hooper ( K ) Shiv Chanderpaul Corey Collymore Cameron Cuffy Mervyn Dillon Daren Ganga Chris Gayle Wavell Hinds Carl Hooper Ridley Jacobs ( wk ) Reon King Neil McGarrell Mahendra Nagamootoo Marlon Samuels Ramnaresh Sarwan Colin Stuart

Games

Preliminary round

table

Teams	Sp.	S.	N	U	R.	NO	Points	NRR
India	4th	4th	0	0	0	0	8th	+0.791
West Indies	4th	2	2	0	0	0	4th	-0.042
Zimbabwe	4th	0	4th	0	0	0	0	-0.812

Win: 2 points; Draw: 1 point

Games

June 23 scorecard	Harare	West Indies 266-5 (50)	-	Zimbabwe 239-9 (50)
		West Indies wins by 27 runs

June 24th scorecard	Harare	Zimbabwe 133 (41.5)	-	India 137-1 (26.2)
		India wins with 9 wickets

June 27th scorecard	Bulawayo	Zimbabwe 234-6 (50)	-	India 237-6 (49.2)
		India wins with 4 wickets

June 30th scorecard	Bulawayo	West Indies 169-7 (50)	-	India 170-4 (43.5)
		India wins with 6 wickets

July 1st scorecard	Bulawayo	Zimbabwe 255-5 (50)	-	West Indies 258-5 (49.5)
		West Indies wins with 5 wickets

July 4th scorecard	Harare	West Indies 229-5 (50)	-	India 230-4 (48.1)
		India wins with 6 wickets

final

July 7th scorecard	Harare	West Indies 290-6 (50)	-	India 274-8 (50)
		West Indies wins by 16 runs

Web links

• Contest on Cricinfo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Ward: Why Streak resigned as captain - and then changed his mind ( English ) Cricinfo. June 24, 2001. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
2. ↑ Coca-Cola Cup (Zimbabwe) 2008/09 Table ( English ) Cricket Archive. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
3. ↑ Derrick Nicholas: West Indies name squads for African tour ( English ) Cricinfo. June 8, 2001. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
4. ↑ Sehwag, Dinesh Mongia, Harvinder Singh Sodhi in Indian squad for triangular ( English ) Cricinfo. June 13, 2001. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
5. ↑ Nkala in Zimbabwe team for first ODI ( English ) Cricinfo. June 20, 2001. Retrieved January 8, 2017.