The 1997 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 1997 in England. This was the fifth tournament initiated to help in the development of cricket in British Isles. The tournament was won by Scotland while England Cricket Board XI came second. This tournament was later 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,...

. This was the first appearance for England CB XI who replaced England NCA for future tournaments

Group stage

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	Points
	3	3	0	0	0	6
CB XI	3	2	1	0	0	4
	3	1	2	0	0	2
	3	0	3	0	0	0

Fixtures

CB XI 351-5 defeat 130-10 by 221 Runs 218-6 defeat 199-10 by 19 Runs CB XI 209-10 defeat 190-10 by 19 Runs 246-6 defeat 245-5 by 1 Run 186-9 lost to in a Bowl-Out 0-4 defeat CB XI in a Bowl-Out 3-2

Result

won the tournament winning for a record third time. CB XI came second in the tournament.