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| Venue | The Cloudfm County Ground, Chelmsford on 25th, 26th March 2021 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Players | Essex: 12 (11 to bat and field); Lancashire: 13 (11 to bat and field) |
| Toss | No toss made |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | NL Bainton, NJ Llong |
| Scorers | AE Choat (Essex), P Parkinson (Lancashire) |
| Close of play day 1 | Lancashire (1) 71/4 (Lavelle 0*, Bailey 9*; 20 overs) |
| Essex first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| NLJ Browne | lbw b Jennings | 24 | 76 | 107 | 5 | - | |
| V Chopra | lbw b Bohannon | 26 | 46 | 61 | 4 | - | |
| +MS Pepper | retired out | 40 | 81 | 99 | 8 | - | |
| *DW Lawrence | b Hartley | 34 | 43 | 60 | 6 | - | |
| RN ten Doeschate | run out (Jones) | 0 | 1 | 10 | - | - | |
| JS Rymell | retired out | 12 | 22 | 20 | 3 | - | |
| WEL Buttleman | not out | 20 | 38 | 46 | 4 | - | |
| RN ten Doeschate | lbw b Bohannon | 9 | 18 | 22 | 2 | - | |
| AP Beard | not out | 0 | 5 | 8 | - | - | |
| JH Plom | did not bat | ||||||
| S Snater | did not bat | ||||||
| SJ Cook | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 3 lb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, declared, 218 minutes, 55 overs) | 170 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-43 (Chopra, 14.4 ov), 2-72 (Browne, 26.4 ov), 3-124 (Pepper, 39.6 ov), 4-129 (Lawrence, 41.1 ov), 5-129 (ten Doeschate, 41.5 ov), 6-145 (Rymell, 46.6 ov), 7-169 (ten Doeschate, 52.6 ov) | |||||||
| Lancashire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Hurt | 10 | 1 | 25 | 0 | - | - | |
| Blatherwick | 11 | 4 | 40 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bohannon | 7 | 4 | 14 | 2 | - | - | |
| Lamb | 11 | 4 | 33 | 0 | - | - | |
| Jennings | 5 | 3 | 7 | 1 | - | - | |
| Morley | 3 | 0 | 25 | 0 | - | - | |
| Hartley | 8 | 2 | 21 | 1 | - | - | |
| Lancashire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| KK Jennings | b Plom | 18 | 50 | 76 | 3 | - | |
| +AL Davies | lbw b Snater | 38 | 53 | 70 | 7 | 1 | |
| JJ Bohannon | lbw b Snater | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | |
| GID Lavelle | c Buttleman b Beard | 0 | 4 | 19 | - | - | |
| DJ Lamb | c Chopra b Snater | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | - | |
| TE Bailey | lbw b Cook | 11 | 20 | 32 | 2 | - | |
| SMO Shah | not out | 39 | 94 | 121 | 5 | 2 | |
| RP Jones | lbw b Cook | 0 | 8 | 10 | - | - | |
| *DJ Vilas | c Pepper b Snater | 0 | 2 | 8 | - | - | |
| TW Hartley | c Buttleman b Snater | 8 | 22 | 29 | 1 | - | |
| LJ Hurt | not out | 19 | 42 | 51 | 4 | - | |
| JM Blatherwick | did not bat | ||||||
| JP Morley | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 2 lb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, 213 minutes, 50 overs) | 141 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-57 (Davies, 16.4 ov), 2-57 (Bohannon, 16.5 ov), 3-57 (Jennings, 17.3 ov), 4-62 (Lamb, 18.1 ov), 5-71 (Lavelle, 20.3 ov), 6-93 (Bailey, 25.3 ov), 7-97 (Jones, 27.5 ov), 8-99 (Vilas, 29.2 ov), 9-113 (Hartley, 35.6 ov) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Cook | 12 | 6 | 30 | 2 | - | - | |
| Beard | 11 | 1 | 36 | 1 | - | - | |
| Snater | 10 | 3 | 19 | 5 | - | - | |
| Plom | 12 | 4 | 41 | 1 | - | - | |
| ten Doeschate | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | - | - | |
| Lawrence | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |