The 1998 British Isles Championship is a cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 tournament that took place in 1998 in Scotland. It was second time Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 hosted this initiative to help in the development of cricket in British Isles. The tournament was won by England CB XI while Scotland came second. It was the first win for ECB XI who had replaced England NCA in the last tournament.This tournament after 2001 was replaced with European Cricket Championship

European Cricket Championship

The European Cricket Championship is a group of various tournaments in which national cricket sides throughout Europe compete. The tournament is designed to encourage and develop the best players in countries where cricket is not a major sport and Europe's only Test cricket playing country,...

Group stage

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	Points
CB XI	3	2	1	0	0	4
	3	2	1	0	0	4
	3	2	1	0	0	4
	3	0	3	0	0	0

Fixtures

160-9 defeat 151-10 by 9 Runs CB XI 271-5 defeat 127-10 by 144 Runs 164-9 lost to 167-7 by 3 Wickets 171-9 defeat CB XI 167-9 by 4 Runs CB XI 204-8 defeat 202-8 by 2 Runs 224-6 defeat 207-10 by 17 Runs

Result

CB XI won the tournament winning on Run Rate for the first time. came second in the tournament