Administrator(s) | England and Wales Cricket Board |
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Cricket format | Limited overs cricket (50 overs per innings) |
Tournament format(s) | Knockout |
Champions | Gloucestershire (2nd title) |
Participants | 60 |
Matches | 51 |
Most runs | 318 Tim Hancock (Gloucestershire) |
Most wickets | 15 Saqlain Mushtaq (Surrey) |
The 1999 NatWest Trophy was the 19th NatWest Trophy. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 4 May and 29 August 1999. [1] The tournament was won by Gloucestershire who defeated Somerset by 50 runs in the final at Lord's.
For the 1999 season, radical changes were made to the structure and format of the competition. Each side's innings was reduced from 60 overs per side to 50, in order to bring the county one-day game in line with the format of One Day Internationals. This in turn reduced the number of overs a bowler could bowl in an innings, down from 12 to 10.
The number of teams participating was also greatly expanded. The 18 first-class counties were joined by all twenty Minor Counties, plus Huntingdonshire. In a major change to previous tournaments, the cricket boards of Derbyshire, Durham, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire were added to the competition. The Ireland, Scotland and Netherlands teams also participated, as in previous years, while Denmark made its debut in the tournament.
The tournament retained its knockout format, but now with four rounds before the quarter-final and semi-final stages. The winners of the semi-finals went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 29 August 1999.
4 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Huntingdonshire 222/8 (50 overs) | v | Bedfordshire 223/3 (45 overs) |
4 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Warwickshire Cricket Board 149 all out (48 overs) | v | Berkshire 150/4 (45.3 overs) |
4 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Cumberland 314/9 (50 overs) | v | Cornwall 177 all out (44.2 overs) |
4 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Oxfordshire 224/7 (50 overs) | v | Durham Cricket Board 226/8 (48.2 overs) |
4 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Yorkshire Cricket Board 145 all out (40 overs) | v | Gloucestershire Cricket Board 138 all out (49 overs) |
4 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Hertfordshire 323/7 (50 overs) | v | Leicestershire Cricket Board 209/9 (50 overs) |
4 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Kent Cricket Board 227/8 (50 overs) | v | Denmark 169/9 (50 overs) |
4 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Lincolnshire 232/9 (50 overs) | v | Wales Minor Counties 236/6 (47.3 overs) |
4 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Northamptonshire Cricket Board 282/5 (50 overs) | v | Wiltshire 283/8 (48.4 overs) |
4 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Northumberland 253/8 (50 overs) | v | Ireland 255/5 (47.5 overs) |
4 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Suffolk 284/8 (50 overs) | v | Hampshire Cricket Board 290/3 (47.1 overs) |
4 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Surrey Cricket Board 264/8 (50 overs) | v | Norfolk 241/6 (50 overs) |
4 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Nottinghamshire Cricket Board 212 all out (50 overs) | v | Scotland 215/1 (41.4 overs) |
Stephen Crawley 109* |
4 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Cambridgeshire 215/9 (50 overs) | v | Netherlands 219/2 (43.2 overs) |
17 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Somerset Cricket Board 200 all out (50 overs) | v | Bedfordshire 201/6 (43.1 overs) |
19 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Wales Minor Counties 250/9 (50 overs) | v | Derbyshire Cricket Board 198 all out (49.5 overs) |
19 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Devon 267/6 (50 overs) | v | Berkshire 199 all out (44.3 overs) |
19 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Staffordshire 256/8 (50 overs) | v | Durham Cricket Board 257/6 (48.4 overs) |
19 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Herefordshire 211/9 (50 overs) | v | Wiltshire 131 all out (37.5 overs) |
19 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Sussex Cricket Board 209/9 (50 overs) | v | Hertfordshire 213/3 (42.2 overs) |
19 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Kent Cricket Board 250/3 (50 overs) | v | Worcestershire Cricket Board 245/7 (50 overs) |
19 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Lancashire Cricket Board 122 all out (49.2 overs) | v | Netherlands 126/0 (31.2 overs) |
19 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Cumberland 207/9 (50 overs) | v | Middlesex Cricket Board 114 all out (42.2 overs) |
19 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Hampshire Cricket Board 217 all out (49.4 overs) | v | Shropshire 216 all out (50 overs) |
19 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Cheshire 171/9 (50 overs) | v | Surrey Cricket Board 162 all out (45 overs) |
19 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Yorkshire Cricket Board 91 all out (40.5 overs) | v | Buckinghamshire 92/3 (20.4 overs) |
19 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Essex Cricket Board 196/9 (50 overs) | v | Ireland 200/8 (47.3 overs) |
Gerald Dros 51 Arif Saeed 2/36 (10 overs) |
19 May 1999 (scorecard) |
Scotland 245/7 (50 overs) | v | Dorset 169 all out (47 overs) |
23 June 1999 (scorecard) |
Bedfordshire 187/9 (50 overs) | v | Derbyshire 190/4 (40 overs) |
23 June 1999 (scorecard) |
Warwickshire 249/7 (50 overs) | v | Buckinghamshire 136 all out (40 overs) |
23 June 1999 (scorecard) |
Kent 312/7 (50 overs) | v | Cheshire 204/9 (40 overs) |
23 June 1999 (scorecard) |
Cumberland 214/8 (50 overs) | v | Sussex 216/4 (31.4 overs) |
23 June 1999 (scorecard) |
Worcestershire 256/8 (50 overs) | v | Devon 211/8 (40 overs) |
23 June 1999 (scorecard) |
Gloucestershire 271/8 (50 overs) | v | Durham Cricket Board 109 all out (34 overs) |
23 June 1999 (scorecard) |
Glamorgan 245/8 (50 overs) | v | Hampshire Cricket Board 177 all out (47 overs) |
23 June 1999 (scorecard) |
Yorkshire 275/8 (50 overs) | v | Herefordshire 124/5 (40 overs) |
23 June 1999 (scorecard) |
Lancashire 381/3 (50 overs) | v | Hertfordshire 213/6 (50 overs) |
23 June 1999 (scorecard) |
Hampshire 262/7 (50 overs) | v | Kent Cricket Board 132 all out (41 overs) |
23 June 1999 (scorecard) |
Essex 281/6 (50 overs) | v | Northamptonshire 282/5 (48 overs) |
23 June 1999 (scorecard) |
Nottinghamshire 229/8 (50 overs) | v | Middlesex 150 all out (43 overs) |
23 June 1999 (scorecard) |
Somerset 267/5 (50 overs) | v | Wales Minor Counties 129 all out (39.2 overs) |
23 June 1999 (scorecard) |
Durham 194 all out (50 overs) | v | Netherlands 195/5 (45 overs) |
23 June 1999 (scorecard) |
Leicestershire 287 all out (49.5 overs) | v | Ireland 151 all out (48.4 overs) |
23 June 1999 (scorecard) |
Scotland 147 all out (48 overs) | v | Surrey 148/3 (37.3 overs) |
7 July 1999 (scorecard) |
Glamorgan 254/5 (50 overs) | v | Warwickshire 238 all out (49.4 overs) |
7 July 1999 (scorecard) |
Derbyshire 112 all out (41.4 overs) | v | Gloucestershire 116/2 (32.1 overs) |
7 July 1999 (scorecard) |
Hampshire 239/8 (50 overs) | v | Lancashire 243/9 (49.3 overs) |
7 July 1999 (scorecard) |
Northamptonshire 281/6 (50 overs) | v | Nottinghamshire 177 all out (40.5 overs) |
7 July 1999 (scorecard) |
Sussex 192/8 (50 overs) | v | Somerset 195/5 (46.2 overs) |
7 July 1999 (scorecard) |
Worcestershire 204/9 (50 overs) | v | Surrey 206/5 (46.5 overs) |
7 July 1999 (scorecard) |
Leicestershire 229/9 (50 overs) | v | Yorkshire 233/6 (48.3 overs) |
7 July 1999 (scorecard) |
Kent 229 all out (48.5 overs) | v | Netherlands 167 all out (47.5 overs) |
28 July 1999 (scorecard) |
Gloucestershire 274/6 (50 overs) | v | Glamorgan 138 all out (41.1 overs) |
28 July 1999 (scorecard) |
Yorkshire 263/7 (50 overs) | v | Lancashire 208 all out (45.4 overs) |
28 July 1999 (scorecard) |
Northamptonshire 152 all out (35.5 overs) | v | Surrey 156/3 (35.3 overs) |
28 July 1999 (scorecard) |
Kent 264/5 (50 overs) | v | Somerset 266/4 (46.2 overs) |
14 August 1999 (scorecard) |
Somerset 315/8 (50 overs) | v | Surrey 195 all out (43.3 overs) |
14 August 1999 (scorecard) |
Gloucestershire 240/7 (50 overs) | v | Yorkshire 234/6 (50 overs) |
29 August 1999 (scorecard) |
Gloucestershire 230/8 (50 overs) | v | Somerset 180 all out (45.1 overs) |
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