Triple Crown Tournament

The Triple Crown Tournament was a cricket competition staged annually from 1993 to 2001 between the Home Nations; that is to say Ireland, Scotland, Wales and a team representing England.

Although internationals, they are considered minor matches, that is, games without the List A status granted to more important one-day competitions.

The venue for the tournament rotated around the four competing nations, with England hosting the first competition.

[1][2] In the nine years of the competition, Scotland were by some way the most successful team, winning five titles compared with three for England, one for Ireland and none for Wales.

England CB XI won the tournament winning on Run Rate for the first time.

[10] It was a continuation of the initiative to help in the development of cricket in British Isles and first time hosted by Ireland.

The tournaments which was later replaced with European Cricket Championship was won by Scotland for a record fourth time.

[7] It was second time hosted by Wales as a continuation of the initiative to help in the development of cricket in British Isles.

The tournament which was later replaced with European Cricket Championship was won by Scotland for a record fifth time.

It was the worst performance for a team representing  England who finished at the bottom without winning any matches.

The busy schedule for Scotland and Ireland who now were ICC members meant that having future tournaments was not possible.

ECB initiated the process where these teams could play in the county championship besides the ICC-Europe tournaments.

16 August, East Grinstead Ireland 211 (P Davy 53, A Patterson 36, C Wright 3-35) Scotland 214-7 (G Maiden 79*, C Wright 45*, A McCoubrey 3-17, J McGonigle 3-22) 16 August, Brighton ECB XI 213-6 (C Amos 65, P Bryson 50, S Foster 38) Wales 111-10 (M Sharp 3-15, S Chapman 3-18, I Parkin 3-19) England CB XI won the tournament winning for second time making a comeback from the disastrous last tournament where they were win less.