2000 Women's Cricket World Cup

2000 IWCC Women's World Cup
Dates	29 November – 23 December 2000
Administrator(s)	International Women's Cricket Council
Cricket format	Women's ODI
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and Knockout
Host(s)	New Zealand
Champions	New Zealand (1st title)
Participants	8
Matches played	31
Most runs	Karen Rolton 393
Most wickets	Charmaine Mason 17

The 7th IWCC Women's Cricket World Cup was held in New Zealand from 29 November to 23 December 2000.

Teams from New Zealand, Australia, England, India, Ireland, South Africa, Sri Lanka and The Netherlands played each other once in a round robin format to determine the semi finalists.

The tournament was sponsored by Cricinfo, which allowed the tournament to receive ball-by-ball text commentary coverage, as well as streamed audio and video, a first for women's cricket.^[1]

Australia defeated South Africa by 9 wickets and New Zealand beat India by 9 wickets in the semi finals.

New Zealand won the tournament, for the 1st time, beating Australia by 4 runs in the final. The New Zealanders scored 184 all out before bowling Australia out for 180 in 49.1 overs.

Lisa Keightley of Australia was named the player of the tournament.^[2]

Group stage

Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	NRR	Pts
Australia	7	7	0	0	0	+1.984	14
New Zealand	7	6	1	0	0	+2.008	12
India	7	5	2	0	0	+0.711	10
South Africa	7	4	3	0	0	–0.403	8
England	7	3	4	0	0	+0.440	6
Sri Lanka	7	2	5	0	0	–1.572	4
Ireland	7	1	6	0	0	–0.983	2
Netherlands	7	0	7	0	0	–2.098	0

29 November 2000 Scorecard

New Zealand  166/9 (50 overs)

v

Australia 167/4 (47.3 overs)

Australia won by 6 wickets Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln

30 November 2000 Scorecard

England  256/3 (50 overs)

v

Netherlands 116/9 (50 overs)

England won by 140 runs Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln

30 November 2000 Scorecard

South Africa  128/8 (50 overs)

v

India 129/2 (39.4 overs)

India won by 8 wickets Hagley Oval, Christchurch

1 December 2000 Scorecard

Australia  282/3 (50 overs)

v

Sri Lanka 82 (39 overs)

Australia won by 200 runs Hagley Oval, Christchurch

1 December 2000 Scorecard

Ireland  99 (47.4 overs)

v

New Zealand 102/2 (24.5 overs)

New Zealand won by 8 wickets Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln

2 December 2000 Scorecard

England  143 (47.5 overs)

v

South Africa 144/5 (46.5 overs)

South Africa won by 5 wickets Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln

2 December 2000 Scorecard

India  275/4 (50 overs)

v

Netherlands 121/6 (50 overs)

India won by 154 runs Lincoln Green, Lincoln

3 December 2000 Scorecard

Ireland  90 (49.3 overs)

v

Australia 91/0 (20.3 overs)

Australia won by 10 wickets Hagley Park No. 2, Christchurch

3 December 2000 Scorecard

New Zealand  210/4 (50 overs)

v

Sri Lanka 88 (49.3 overs)

New Zealand won by 122 runs Lincoln Green, Lincoln

Knockout stage

Semi finals

18 December 2000 scorecard

South Africa  180/8 (50.0 overs)	v	Australia 181/1 (31.2 overs)
Linda Olivier (41) Charmaine Mason (3/39)		Lisa Keightley (91) Cindy Eksteen (1/39)

Australia Women won by 9 wickets Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln Umpires: Billy Bowden and Steve Dunne Player of the match: Lisa Keightley

20 December 2000 scorecard

India  117 (45.2 overs)	v	New Zealand 121/1 (26.5 overs)
Purnima Rau (67) Kathryn Ramel (2/12)		Anna Smith (50*) Neetu David (1/18)

New Zealand Women won by 9 wickets Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln Umpires: Kathy Cross and Brian Jerling Player of the match: Anna Smith

Final

23 December 2000 scorecard

New Zealand  184 (48.4 overs)	v	Australia 180 (49.1 overs)
Kathryn Ramel (41) Cathryn Fitzpatrick (3/52)		Belinda Clark (91) Katrina Keenan (2/19)

New Zealand Women won by 4 runs Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln Umpires: Peter Parker and Dave Quested Player of the match: Belinda Clark

Statistics

Batting averages

Player	Team	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	Highest Score	100s	50s
Rolton, KarenKaren Rolton	Australia	9	7	393	13100 !131.00	1545 !154*	2	2
Keightley, LisaLisa Keightley	Australia	8	8	375	07500 !75.00	0915 !91*	0	4
Drumm, EmilyEmily Drumm	New Zealand	7	7	339	06780 !67.80	1085 !108*	1	2
Taylor, ClaireClaire Taylor	England	4	4	267	06675 !66.75	1375 !137*	1	1
Clark, BelindaBelinda Clark	Australia	9	9	351	05850 !58.50	0910 !91	0	2
Kaul, ChanderkantaChanderkanta Kaul	India	8	8	260	05200 !52.00	0800 !80	0	2
Smith, AnnaAnna Smith	New Zealand	8	8	308	05133 !51.33	0915 !91*	0	3
Chopra, AnjumAnjum Chopra	India	8	8	267	03814 !38.14	0700 !70	0	3

Qualification: 250 runs. Source: CricketArchive^[3]

Bowling averages

Player	Team	Matches	Balls	Wickets	Average	Economy	BBI	4wi
Keenan, KatrinaKatrina Keenan	New Zealand	9	414	12	7001106600000000000♠10.66	7000185000000000000♠1.85	334 !3/16	0
Mason, CharmaineCharmaine Mason	Australia	9	417	17	7001107600000000000♠10.76	7000263000000000000♠2.63	330 !3/20	0
Taylor, ClareClare Taylor	England	9	384	14	7001108500000000000♠10.85	7000237000000000000♠2.37	425 !4/25	1
Fahey, AvrilAvril Fahey	Australia	9	270	13	7001117600000000000♠11.76	7000340000000000000♠3.40	339 !3/11	0
McGregor, TerryTerry McGregor	Australia	9	378	10	7001156000000000000♠15.60	7000247000000000000♠2.47	432 !4/18	0
Ramel, KarthynKarthyn Ramel	New Zealand	9	327	10	7001175000000000000♠17.50	7000321000000000000♠3.21	238 !2/12	0
Shastri, RupiRupi Shastri	India	9	362	10	7001222000000000000♠22.20	7000367000000000000♠3.67	325 !3/25	0
Fitzpatrick, CathrynCathryn Fitzpatrick	Australia	9	508	11	7001260900000000000♠26.09	7000338000000000000♠3.38	328 !3/22	0
Seneviratne, ChamaniChamani Seneviratne	Sri Lanka	9	414	10	7001261000000000000♠26.10	7000378000000000000♠3.78	427 !4/23	0

See also

Women's Cricket World Cup

References