NatWest Series prizes up for grabs
Three awards are up for grabs in this year's NatWest Series: The Player of The NatWest Series, Catch of The NatWest Series and Fans' Player of The NatWest Series, in addition to the presentation of the trophy to the winning side
Media Release
21-Jun-2001
Three awards are up for grabs in this year's NatWest Series: The Player of The NatWest Series, Catch of The NatWest Series and Fans' Player of The NatWest Series, in addition to the presentation of the trophy to the winning side.
The winning team will receive a cheque for £20,000 and each winning player
will be presented with a specially commissioned black stump with an engraved
silver brace.
The Player of The NatWest Series will be selected by a media panel to
include representatives from each of the three competing nations, England,
Australia and Pakistan. The winner will be presented with an engraved gold
medal and a cheque for £3,000.
Sky Sports selected the following six outstanding catches in The
NatWest Series, and today awarded Catch of The NatWest Series to Shahid
Afridi (Pakistan) v England at Lord's on 12th June. Shahid will be
presented with his medal and cheque for £2,000 on Saturday at Lord's.
Shoaib Malik (Pakistan) v England Edgbaston Thursday 7 June Saeed Anwar (Pakistan) v England Edgbaston Thursday 7 June Shane Warne (Australia) v England Bristol Sunday 10 June Shahid Afridi (Pakistan) v England Lord's Tuesday 12 June Nick Knight (England) v Australia Manchester Thursday 14 June Andrew Symonds (Australia) v England Manchester Thursday 14 June
Fans will also have a chance to vote for their Player of The NatWest
Series this week by logging on to the official NatWest Series website,
www.natwestseries.com. The Fans Player of The NatWest Series will be
presented with a cheque of £1,000 and an engraved medal.
The NatWest Series is the triangular One-Day International tournament
involving England and the two visiting Test teams. All matches running from
7 June through to the final at Lords on 23 June are broadcast live on Sky
TV.
NatWest has been a major sponsor of cricket since 1981 when the bank began
20 years of sponsorship of The NatWest Trophy. In 2000, following a
successful sponsorship of the Cricket World Cup, NatWest became the first
title sponsor of the new international, one-day triangular competition, The
NatWest Series.
NatWest, now part of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group, is one of the largest
banks in the UK. NatWest provides a whole range of financial services to
over 7 million personal and business customers. NatWest has over 1,640
branches and operates nearly 3,800 cash machines.