Tournament format(s) Knockout Matches played 59 | Participants 54 | |
Administrator(s) England and Wales Cricket Board Cricket format Limited overs cricket (50 overs) Champions Gloucestershire (4th title) | ||
The 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy was an English county cricket tournament, held between 29 August 2002 and 30 August 2003. The competition was won by Gloucestershire who beat Worcestershire by 7 wickets at Lord's.
Format
The eighteen first-class counties, joined 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 the additional minor county of Huntingdonshire. They were joined by the cricket boards of Durham, Derbyshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire. They were joined by the national teams of Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands and Scotland. The first and second rounds were played in August and September 2002. Teams who won in the first round progressed to the second round. The winners in the second round then progressed to the third round. The winners in the third round progressed to the quarter-final stage. Winners from the quarter-finals them progressed to the semi-finals from which the winners then went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 30 August 2003.