The NatWest Series is an annual one day international cricket tournament held in England involving the home side and two of the season's touring teams. A One-day International (ODI) cricket match is a one-day cricket match played between two international teams each representing a particular country. ... The English cricket team is a cricket team which nominally represents England and Wales, operating under the auspices of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). ...
A series of usually nine matches are played across England at the six test match grounds plus county grounds such as Canterbury, Cardiff and Bristol, with a final at Lord's. The St Lawrence Ground is a cricket ground in Canterbury, Kent and is the home of Kent County Cricket Club. ... An venue within Cardiff, home to the Glamorgan County Cricket Club and proposed future home of the Cardiff Devils. ... The County Cricket Ground, (also known as Nevil Road), is a cricket venue in Bristol, England. ... The Media Centre at Lords Cricket Ground Lords Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in St Johns Wood in London. ...
The first NatWest Series was held in 2000 a year after England held the World Cup. The West Indies and Zimbabwe were the other two teams and it was Zimbabwe who actually got through the first final. England won by 6 wickets, with Darren Gough taking 3-20 and Alec Stewart scoring 97. The 1999 Cricket World Cup was held in England, Scotland and Netherlands and won by Australia. ... For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ... Darren Gough (born September 18, 1970, Monk Bretton, Barnsley, Yorkshire) is an English cricketer. ... Alec James Stewart OBE (born 8 April 1963) is a retired English cricketer, a right-handed wicketkeeper-batsman and former captain of the English cricket team. ...
NatWest's relationship with the sport began at the start of the 1980s with its first One Day sponsorship and the bank enjoyed a subsequent involvement with County Cricket before turning its attentions to internationals.
The prizes are 24 pairs of tickets (one adult and one child) to the last match in the NatWest Challenge (a series of three one-day matches between England and India) at Lord's Cricket Ground in London on 5 September 2004.
While NatWest understandably does not want to reveal total traffic figures until the end of the 2004 NatWest Challenge, the site recorded over 1m registered hits in an 8-week timeframe during the 2003 events, over 7,000 unique users per day and achieved a 75% click through to parent site natwest.com.
Feeds |
Contact