2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy
| Administrator(s) | England and Wales Cricket Board | 
|---|---|
| Cricket format | Limited overs cricket (50 overs) | 
| Tournament format(s) | Knockout | 
| Champions | Gloucestershire (4th title) | 
| Participants | 54 | 
| Matches | 57 | 
| Most runs | Vikram Solanki 270 (for Worcestershire)  | 
| Most wickets | Andrew Clarke 11 (for Buckinghamshire)  | 
The 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy was an English county cricket tournament, held between 29 August 2002 and 30 August 2003.[1] The competition was won by Gloucestershire who beat Worcestershire by 7 wickets at Lord's.
Format
The eighteen first-class counties were joined in the tournament by 20 Minor Counties (Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Devon, Dorset, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Wales Minor Counties and Wiltshire), as well as Huntingdonshire. The cricket boards of Durham, Derbyshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire also took part, as did the national teams of Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands and Scotland.
The tournament was a knockout with four rounds before the quarter-final and semi-final stages. The first and second rounds, which did not involve the first-class counties, were played in August and September 2002. The winners of the semi-finals went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 30 August 2003.
Fixtures
First round
 29, 30 August 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Cornwall 
301/8 (50 overs)  | 
v 
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Somerset Cricket Board 
299 all out (50 overs)  | 
- Match extended to 2 days
 
 29 August 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Cumberland 
280/5 (50 overs)  | 
v 
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Nottinghamshire Cricket Board 
194 all out (50 overs)  | 
 29 August 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Surrey Cricket Board 
290/4 (50 overs)  | 
v 
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Gloucestershire Cricket Board 
273/8 (50 overs)  | 
 29 August 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Hampshire Cricket Board 
280/6 (50 overs)  | 
v 
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Wiltshire 
196 all out (41.4 overs)  | 
Damian Shirazi 101 (142)  
James Hibberd 4/48 (10 overs)  | 
 29 August 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Middlesex Cricket Board 
239/9 (50 overs)  | 
v 
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Derbyshire Cricket Board 
201 all out (47.5 overs)  | 
 29 August 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Yorkshire Cricket Board 
233/8 (50 overs)  | 
v 
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Northamptonshire Cricket Board 
176 all out (43.2 overs)  | 
 29 August 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Lancashire Cricket Board 
229/8 (50 overs)  | 
v 
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Oxfordshire 
198 all out (48.2 overs)  | 
 29 August 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Herefordshire 
276/6 (50 overs)  | 
v 
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Warwickshire Cricket Board 
203 all out (47.5 overs)  | 
 29 August 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Dorset 
227 all out (49.4 overs)  | 
v 
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Worcestershire Cricket Board 
228/5 (46 overs)  | 
Second round
 12 September 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Netherlands 
96 all out (34.4 overs)  | 
v 
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Bedfordshire 
97/0 (15.3 overs)  | 
Neil Stanley 56  
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 12 September 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Buckinghamshire 
160 all out (49.5 overs)  | 
v 
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Shropshire 
123/4 (27.1 overs)  | 
 12 September 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Durham Cricket Board 
274/8 (50 overs)  | 
v 
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Herefordshire 
224 all out (47.2 overs)  | 
 12 September 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Essex Cricket Board 
302/8 (50 overs)  | 
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Surrey Cricket Board 
253 all out (45.5 overs)  | 
John Fry 69  
Tauseef Ali 4/66 (9 overs)  | 
 12 September 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Staffordshire 
249/6 (50 overs)  | 
v 
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Hampshire Cricket Board 
144 all out (36.4 overs)  | 
 12 September 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Leicestershire Cricket Board 
175 all (47.4 overs)  | 
v 
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Kent Cricket Board 
176/3 (40.4 overs)  | 
 12 September 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Middlesex Cricket Board 
194 all out (44 overs)  | 
v 
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Cambridgeshire 
200/3 (44.3 overs)  | 
 12 September 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Northumberland 
352 all out (49.4 overs)  | 
v 
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Yorkshire Cricket Board 
226 all out (47.1 overs)  | 
 12 September 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Cornwall 
248/7 (50 overs)  | 
v 
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Wales Minor Counties 
224 all out (48.2 overs)  | 
 12 September 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Sussex Cricket Board 
225 all out (48.5 overs)  | 
v 
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Worcestershire Cricket Board 
227/4 (43.5 overs)  | 
 12, 13 September 2002     
(scorecard)  | 
Scotland 
177/7 (42.4 overs)  | 
v 
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Lancashire Cricket Board 
175/7 (50 overs)  | 
- Match extended to two days
 
Third round
 7 May 2003     
(scorecard)  | 
Worcestershire 
311/4 (50 overs)  | 
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Worcestershire Cricket Board 
141/9 (50 overs)  | 
Fourth round
Quarter-finals
 10, 11 June 2003     
(scorecard)  | 
Worcestershire 
216/8 (50 overs)  | 
v 
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Leicestershire 
141 all out (43.5 overs)  | 
- Reserve day used
 
Semi-finals
Final
 30 August 2003     
(scorecard)  | 
Worcestershire 
149 all out (46.3 overs)  | 
v 
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Gloucestershire 
150/3 (20.3 overs)  | 
References
- ^ "Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, 2003 – Fixtures". Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 October 2009.