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
Man of the Series	Lisa Keightley
Most runs	Karen Rolton 393
Most wickets	Charmaine Mason 17
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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.

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.

Group stage

Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts
Australia	7	7	0	0	0	14
New Zealand	7	6	1	0	0	12
India	7	5	2	0	0	10
South Africa	7	4	3	0	0	8
England	7	3	4	0	0	6
Sri Lanka	7	2	5	0	0	4
Ireland	7	1	6	0	0	2
Netherlands	7	0	7	0	0	0

Knockout stage

Semi finals

18 December 2000 scorecard	South Africa  180/8 (50.0 overs)	v	Australia 181/1 (31.2 overs)	Australia Women won by 9 wickets Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln Umpires: Billy Bowden and Steve Dunne Player of the match: Lisa Keightley
	Linda Olivier (41) Charmaine Mason (3/39)		Lisa Keightley (91) Cindy Eksteen (1/39)

20 December 2000 scorecard	India  117 (45.2 overs)	v	New Zealand 121/1 (26.5 overs)	New Zealand Women won by 9 wickets Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln Umpires: Kathy Cross and Brian Jerling Player of the match: Anna Smith
	Purnima Rau (67) Kathryn Ramel (2/12)		Anna Smith (50*) Neetu David (1/18)

Final

23 December 2000 scorecard	New Zealand  184 (48.4 overs)	v	Australia 180 (49.1 overs)	New Zealand Women won by 4 runs Bert Sutcliffe Oval, Lincoln Umpires: Peter Parker and Dave Quested Player of the match: Belinda Clark
	Kathryn Ramel (41) Cathryn Fitzpatrick (3/52)		Belinda Clark (91) Katrina Keenan (2/19)

Stats

Batting

Most runs^[1]

Player	Matches	Runs	Avg	HS
Karen Rolton	9	393	131.00	154*
Lisa Keightley	8	375	75.00	91*
Belinda Clark	9	351	58.50	91
Emily Drumm	7	339	67.80	108*
Anna Smith	8	308	51.33	91*

Bowling

Most wickets^[2]

Player	Matches	Wickets	Econ	BBI
Charmaine Mason	??	17	2.63	3/20
Clare Taylor	??	14	2.37	4/25
Avril Fahey	??	13	3.40	3/11
Katrina Keenan	??	12	1.85	3/16
Cathryn Fitzpatrick	?/	11	3.38	3/22

See also

Women's Cricket World Cup

References

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