2001 Sri Lanka Coca-Cola Cup

Sri Lanka Coca-Cola Cup 2001
Part of Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2001
Date	18 July – 5 August 2001
Location	Sri Lanka
Result	Sri Lanka won the 2001 Sri Lanka Coca-Cola Cup
Player of the series	Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri)
Teams  Sri Lanka  India  New Zealand Captains Sanath Jayasuriya Saurav Ganguly Stephen Fleming Craig McMillan 4th, 6th ODIs Most runs Sanath Jayasuriya (305) Rahul Dravid (259) Nathan Astle (290) Most wickets Dilhara Fernando (11) Harbhajan Singh (11) Chris Harris (9)
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The 2001 Sri Lanka Coca-Cola Cup was a One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament held in Sri Lanka in late June 2001.^[1] It was a tri-nation series between the national representative cricket teams of the Sri Lanka, India and New Zealand. Sri Lanka won the tournament by defeating India by 121 runs in the final.^[2]

Sri Lanka[3]	India[4]	New Zealand[5]
Sanath Jayasuriya (c) Marvan Atapattu Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk) Russel Arnold Mahela Jayawardene Kumar Sangakkara (wk) Avishka Gunawardene Chamara Silva Chaminda Vaas Dulip Liyanage Suresh Perera Nuwan Zoysa Kumar Dharmasena Muttiah Muralitharan Dilhara Fernando	Sourav Ganguly (c) Rahul Dravid Ashish Nehra VVS Laxman Hemang Badani Sameer Dighe (wk) Debashish Mohanty Zaheer Khan Harbhajan Singh Reetinder Singh Sodhi Yuvraj Singh Ajit Agarkar Rahul Sanghvi Virender Sehwag Amay Khurasiya	Stephen Fleming (c) Adam Parore (wk) Nathan Astle Grant Bradburn James Franklin Chris Harris Craig McMillan Kyle Mills Dion Nash Mathew Sinclair Jacob Oram Daryl Tuffey Daniel Vettori Lou Vincent

18 July 2001 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  220 (48.5 overs)	v	New Zealand 204/9 (50 overs)
Sanath Jayasuriya 88 (108) Chris Harris 2/42 (10 overs) Daniel Vettori 2/42 (10 overs)		Adam Parore 51* (83) Dilhara Fernando 2/28 (6 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 16 runs R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Lalith Jayasundara (SL) and Nandasena Pathirana (SL) Player of the match: Sanath Jayasuriya (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: Sri Lanka 2, New Zealand 0.

20 July 2001 (D/N) Scorecard

New Zealand  211/8 (50 overs)	v	India 127 (41.1 overs)
Nathan Astle 117 (150) Harbhajan Singh 2/25 (10 overs)		VVS Laxman 60 (103) Dion Nash 3/13 (6 overs)

New Zealand won by 84 runs R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Gamini Silva (SL) and Nandasena Pathirana (Zim) Player of the match: Nathan Astle (NZ)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: New Zealand 2, India 0.

22 July 2001 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  221/9 (50 overs)	v	India 215/7 (50 overs)
Avishka Gunawardene 63 (107) Harbhajan Singh 3/29 (10 overs)		Saurav Ganguly 69 (105) Suresh Perera 2/26 (6 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 6 runs R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Peter Manuel (SL) and Tyron Wijewardene (SL) Player of the match: Suresh Perera (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: Sri Lanka 2, India 0.

25 July 2001 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  240/5 (48.3 overs)	v	New Zealand 236/8 (50 overs)
Russel Arnold 91* (116) Kyle Mills 2/32 (8 overs)		Nathan Astle 54 (67) Kumar Dharmasena 3/52 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Lalith Jayasundara (SL) and Asoka de Silva (SL) Player of the match: Russel Arnold (SL)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: Sri Lanka 2, New Zealand 0.

26 July 2001 Scorecard

India  133 (39.4 overs)	v	New Zealand 200 (46.4 overs)
Virender Sehwag 33 (54) Chris Harris 2/9 (7 overs)		Dion Nash 42 (58) Saurav Ganguly 3/32 (9 overs)

New Zealand won by 67 runs R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Peter Manuel (SL) and Gamini Silva (Zim) Player of the match: Dion Nash (NZ)

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

28 July 2001 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  183 (46.5 overs)	v	India 184/3 (45.4 overs)
Sanath Jayasuriya 57 (72) Zaheer Khan 2/30 (8 overs)		VVS Laxman 87* (127) Chaminda Vaas 2/47 (10 overs)

India won by 7 wickets R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) and Peter Manuel (SL) Player of the match: VVS Laxman (Ind)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India 2, Sri Lanka 0.

31 July 2001 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  221/6 (36 overs)	v	New Zealand 115/9 (36 overs)
Mahela Jayawardene 58 (46) Craig McMillan 2/17 (2 overs)		Dion Nash 23 (43) Chaminda Vaas 3/20 (7 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 106 runs Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Nandasena Pathirana (SL) and Tyron Wijewardene (SL) Player of the match: Chaminda Vaas (SL)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.
• Points: Sri Lanka 2, New Zealand 0.

1 August 2001 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  181 (45.5 overs)	v	India 227/8 (50 overs)
Mahela Jayawardene 34 (78) Ashish Nehra 3/35 (8.5 overs)		Yuvraj Singh 98* (127) Dilhara Fernando 3/47 (9 overs)

India won by 46 runs Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) and Gamini Silva (SL) Player of the match: Yuvraj Singh (Ind)

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

2 August 2001 Scorecard

New Zealand  264/7 (50 overs)	v	India 267/3 (45.4 overs)
Nathan Astle 108 (143) Ashish Nehra 3/30 (9 overs)		Virender Sehwag 100 (70) Craig McMillan 2/49 (8.4 overs)

India won by 7 wickets R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Lalith Jayasundara (SL) and Tyron Wijewardene (Zim) Player of the match: Virender Sehwag (Ind)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: New Zealand 0, India 2.
• Virender Sehwag (Ind) scored his first century in ODIs.

5 August 2001 (D/N) Scorecard

Sri Lanka  295/5 (50 overs)	v	India 174 (47.2 overs)
Sanath Jayasuriya 99 (102) Harbhajan Singh 2/29 (10 overs)		VVS Laxman 37 (51) Dilhara Fernando 2/32 (10 overs)

Sri Lanka won by 121 runs R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo Umpires: Asoka de Silva (SL) and Tyron Wijewardene (SL) Player of the match: Russel Arnold (SL)

• Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
• Sri Lanka won the Sri Lanka Coca-Cola Cup .

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