2001 Zimbabwe Coca-Cola Cup

The 2001 Zimbabwe Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament held in Zimbabwe in late June 2001.^[1] It was a tri-nation series between the national representative cricket teams of the Zimbabwe, India and West Indies.^[2] West Indies won the tournament by defeating India by 16 runs in the final.^[3]

Zimbabwe Coca-Cola Cup 2001
Part of Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001 West Indian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2001
Date	23 June – 8 July 2001
Location	Zimbabwe
Result	West Indies won the Coca-Cola Cup
Player of the series	Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)
Teams  Zimbabwe  India  West Indies Captains Grant Flower 1st Guy Whittall 3rd ODI Heath Streak 2nd, 4th ODI Sourav Ganguly Carl Hooper Most runs Grant Flower (172) Sachin Tendulkar (282) Darren Ganga (228) Most wickets Grant Flower (6) Zaheer Khan (9) Mervyn Dillon (8)
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Squads

Zimbabwe[4]	India[5]	West Indies[6]
Heath Streak (c) Guy Whittall (vc) Andy Blignaut Alistair Campbell Stuart Carlisle Dion Ebrahim Andy Flower (wk) Grant Flower Travis Friend Brian Murphy Tatenda Taibu (wk) Mluleki Nkala Dirk Viljoen David Mutendera	Sourav Ganguly (c) Rahul Dravid Sachin Tendulkar VVS Laxman Hemang Badani Sameer Dighe Debashish Mohanty Zaheer Khan Harbhajan Singh Reetinder Singh Sodhi Harvinder Singh Ajit Agarkar Dinesh Mongia (wk) Virender Sehwag Ashish Nehra	Carl Hooper (c) Ridley Jacobs (wk) Chris Gayle Daren Ganga Brian Lara Shivnarine Chanderpaul Marlon Samuels Ramnaresh Sarwan Wavell Hinds Cameron Cuffy Mervyn Dillon Reon King Corey Collymore Kerry Jeremy Neil McGarrell Mahendra Nagamootoo

Andy Flower was ruled out of the tournament with a dislocated thumb bone and was replaced with Tatenda Taibu for Zimbabwe.^[7] India's Ashish Nehra, who was to return to India following the Test series, was retained for the series.^[8]

Fixtures

1st ODI

23 June 2001 Scorecard

West Indies  266/5 (50 overs)	v	Zimbabwe 239/9 (50 overs)
Daren Ganga 66 (98) Brian Murphy 2/43 (9 overs)		Alistair Campbell 68 (108) Marlon Samuels 3/28 (5 overs)

West Indies won by 27 runs Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: Kevan Barbour (Zim) and Russell Tiffin (Zim) Player of the match: Cameron Cuffy (Win)

• Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field.
• Tatenda Taibu (Zim) made his ODI debut.
• Points: West Indies 2, Zimbabwe 0.

2nd ODI

24 June 2001 Scorecard

Zimbabwe  133 (41.5 overs)	v	India 137/1 (26.2 overs)
Dion Ebrahim 32 (53) Ajit Agarkar 3/26 (9.5 overs)		Sachin Tendulkar 70* (70) Heath Streak 1/28 (6 overs)

India won by 9 wickets (with 142 balls remaining) Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: Graeme Evans (Zim) and Ian Robinson (Zim) Player of the match: Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• Ashish Nehra (Ind) made his ODI debut.
• Points: India 2, Zimbabwe 0.

3rd ODI

27 June 2001 Scorecard

Zimbabwe  234/6 (50 overs)	v	India 237/6 (49.2 overs)
Guy Whittall 58* (55) Zaheer Khan 4/42 (10 overs)		Saurav Ganguly 85 (125) Grant Flower 4/44 (8 overs)

India won by 4 wickets (with 4 balls remaining) Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo Umpires: Ahmed Esat (Zim) and Jeff Fenwick (Zim) Player of the match: Rahul Dravid (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• Points: India 2, Zimbabwe 0.

4th ODI

30 June 2001 Scorecard

West Indies  169/7 (50 overs)	v	India 170/4 (43.5 overs)
Ridley Jacobs 53* (76) Debashish Mohanty 3/18 (10 overs)		Sachin Tendulkar 81* (110) Wavell Hinds 1/12 (4 overs)

India won by 6 wickets (with 37 balls remaining) Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo Umpires: Charles Coventry (Zim) and Quintin Goosen (Zim) Player of the match: Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• Points: India 2, West Indies 0.

5th ODI

1 July 2001 Scorecard

Zimbabwe 255/5 (50 overs)	v	West Indies  258/5 (49.5 overs)
Grant Flower 94 (107) Cameron Cuffy 2/30 (10 overs)		Chris Gayle 76 (95) Grant Flower 2/46 (10 overs)

West Indies won by 5 wickets (with 1 ball remaining) Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo Umpires: Jeff Fenwick (Zim) and Quintin Goosen (Zim) Player of the match: Grant Flower (Zim)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
• Points: West Indies 2, Zimbabwe 0.

6th ODI

4 July 2001 Scorecard

West Indies  229/5 (50 overs)	v	India 230/4 (48.1 overs)
Wavell Hinds 66 (90) Harvinder Singh 2/65 (10 overs)		Sachin Tendulkar 122* (131) Carl Hooper 2/39 (10 overs)

India won by 6 wickets (with 11 balls remaining) Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: Graeme Evans (Zim) and Kevan Barbour (Zim) Player of the match: Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• Points: India 2, West Indies 0.

Final

7 July 2001 Scorecard

West Indies  290/6 (50 overs)	v	India 274/8 (50 overs)
Darren Ganga 71 (62) Reetinder Sodhi 2/31 (7 overs)		Sameer Dighe 94* (96) Corey Collymore 4/49 (10 overs)

West Indies won by 16 runs Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: Ian Robinson (Zim) and Russell Tiffin (Zim) Player of the match: Corey Collymore (WI)

• India won the toss and elected to field.
• Wavell Hinds (WI) passed 1,000 runs in ODIs.^[9]
• West Indies won the Coca-Cola Cup.