The

West Indies cricket team The West Indies cricket team, nicknamed the Windies, is a multi-national men's cricket team representing the mainly Commonwealth Caribbean, English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region and administered by Cricket West I ...

toured Zimbabwe in June and July 2001 to play 2

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against

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. The series was named

Clive Lloyd Trophy The Clive Lloyd Trophy is a cricket trophy that is awarded to the winner of Test series between West Indies and Zimbabwe. The Trophy was first contested in a two-Test series in Zimbabwe in 2001, though the two sides did play one series before the ...

, in honor of former West Indian great

Clive Lloyd Sir Clive Hubert Lloyd (born 31 August 1944) is a Guyanese-British former cricketer who played for the West Indies cricket team. As a boy he went to Chatham High School in Georgetown. At the age of 14 he was captain of his school cricket team ...

. West Indies won the first title of the trophy by 1-0. Before the Test series, West Indies participated to a triangular

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competition with Zimbabwe and

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. The West Indies tour consisted 3 List A matches and 2 First-class matches as well.

Squads

Tour matches

List A: CFX Academy vs West Indians

List A: Zimbabwe Country vs West Indians

List A: Zimbabwe A vs West Indians

First-class: Zimbabwe President's XI vs West Indians

First-class: Zimbabwe A vs West Indians

Test series

1st Test

2nd Test

Coca-Cola Cup

The Coca-Cola Cup was a

(ODI) tournament that was held between 23 June and 8 July 2001 in Zimbabwe. It was held after the Test series between Zimbabwe and India.

were the third team that competed in addition to Zimbabwe and West Indies for the Coca-Cola Cup. After six games between the three sides in the round-robin group stage, West Indies and India qualified for the final. India entered as favorites into the final having defeated West Indies in each of the two group-stage games. However, in the final played on 7 July at the

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, West Indies defeated India by 16 runs. After having been put in to bat upon losing the toss, openers

Chris Gayle Christopher Henry Gayle, OD (born 21 September 1979) is a Jamaican cricketer who has been playing international cricket for the West Indies since 1999. A destructive batter, Gayle is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen to have play ...

and

Daren Ganga Daren Ganga (born 14 January 1979) is a former Trinidadian cricketer. He was a right-handed top order batsman and part-time right-arm offbreak bowler. After debuting as a 19-year-old he has found himself in and out of the West Indian cricket t ...

started off strongly for West Indies scoring 96 runs in the first 15 overs. Setting India a target of 291,

Corey Collymore Corey Dalanelo Collymore (born 21 December 1977) is a former Barbadian cricketer, who represented the West Indies team in both Tests and ODIs cricket as seam bowler. Collymore also played for Barbados, Warwickshire, Sussex and Middlesex ...

, picking the crucial wickets of

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Sourav Ganguly Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (; natively spelled as Gangopadhyay; born 8 July 1972), affectionately known as Dada (meaning ''"elder brother"'' in Bengali), is an Indian cricket administrator, commentator and former national cricket team captain w ...

and

VVS Laxman Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman (; born 1 November 1974) is a former Indian international cricketer and a former cricket commentator and pundit. A right-hand batsman known for his elegant stroke play, Laxman played as a middle-order batsman in T ...

, returned figures of 4/49, and was named the player of the match.

References

External links

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