The 2000 English cricket season was marked by the dominance of Surrey in first-class cricket and Gloucestershire in limited overs.

Honours

• County Championship - Surrey
• NatWest Trophy - Gloucestershire
• National League - Gloucestershire
• Benson & Hedges Cup - Gloucestershire
• Minor Counties Championship - Dorset
  Dorset County Cricket Club
  Dorset County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Dorset and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...
  
  
• MCCA Knockout Trophy - Herefordshire
  Herefordshire County Cricket Club
  Herefordshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Herefordshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...
  
  
• Second XI Championship - Middlesex II
• Wisden - Mark Alleyne
  Mark Alleyne
  Mark Wayne Alleyne MBE is an English all-round cricketer who made ten One Day International appearances for England between 1998/99 and 2000/01...
  
  , Martin Bicknell
  Martin Bicknell
  Martin Paul Bicknell is a former English cricketer. He played only four Test matches, but the last two, against South Africa in 2003, came ten years after the first two in the 1993 Ashes series. England had played 114 matches between his appearances, a record...
  
  , Andrew Caddick
  Andrew Caddick
  Andrew Richard Caddick is a retired cricketer who played for England as a fast-medium bowler. At 6 ft 5in, Caddick was a successful bowler for England for a decade, taking 13 five-wicket hauls in Test matches...
  
  , Justin Langer
  Justin Langer
  Justin Lee Langer AM is a former international cricketer who represented Australia in 105 Test matches and the current Assistant Coach and Batting Coach of the Australian cricket team. A left-handed batsman, his opening partnership with Matthew Hayden was one of the most successful of all time...
  
  , Darren Lehmann
  Darren Lehmann
  Darren Scott Lehmann is a former Australian cricketer, who made his ODI debut in 1996 and Test debut in 1998. He was on the fringes of national selection for the entirety of the 1990s, and only became a regular in the ODI team in 2001 and Test team in late 2002, before being dropped in early 2005...
  
  

Test series

England played five Tests against West Indies following two against Zimbabwe.

Leading batsmen

Michael Bevan

Michael Bevan

Michael Gwyl Bevan is a former Australian left-handed cricket batsman and a slow left arm chinaman bowler. He played 232 ODI matches for Australia, and was a part of the 1999 and 2003 teams that won the World Cup...

 topped the averages with 1124 runs @ 74.93

The top runscorer was Darren Lehmann

Darren Lehmann

Darren Scott Lehmann is a former Australian cricketer, who made his ODI debut in 1996 and Test debut in 1998. He was on the fringes of national selection for the entirety of the 1990s, and only became a regular in the ODI team in 2001 and Test team in late 2002, before being dropped in early 2005...

 with 1477 @ 67.13

Leading bowlers

Courtney Walsh

Courtney Walsh

Courtney Andrew Walsh is a former international cricketer who represented the West Indies from 1984 to 2001, captaining the West Indies in 22 Test matches...

 topped the averages with 40 wickets @ 11.42

The leading wicket taker was Glenn McGrath

Glenn McGrath

Glenn Donald McGrath AM , nicknamed "Pigeon", is a former Australian cricket player. He is one of the most highly regarded fast-medium pace bowlers in cricketing history, and a leading contributor to Australia's domination of world cricket from the mid-1990s to the early 21st century...

, playing for Worcestershire, who took 80 @ 13.21

External sources

• CricketArchive – season and tournament itineraries

Annual reviews

• Playfair Cricket Annual
  Playfair Cricket Annual
  Playfair Cricket Annual is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. Its main purposes are to review the previous English season and to provide detailed career records and potted biographies of current...
  
   2001
• Wisden Cricketers Almanack 2001