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| Venue | The Ford County Ground, Chelmsford on 18th June 2008 (20-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Kent won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Essex won by 1 run |
| Points | Essex 2; Kent 0 |
| Umpires | NA Mallender, G Sharp |
| Scorers | AE Choat (Essex), JC Foley (Kent) |
| Player of the Match | JS Foster |
| Essex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| V Chopra | lbw b Yasir Arafat | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| JER Gallian | b Tredwell | 44 | 30 | 42 | 6 | 1 | 146.67 |
| GR Napier | b Azhar Mahmood | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | - | 180.00 |
| GW Flower | run out | 18 | 24 | 25 | 2 | - | 75.00 |
| *+JS Foster | not out | 41 | 35 | 39 | 3 | - | 117.14 |
| RN ten Doeschate | c Yasir Arafat b Tredwell | 6 | 8 | 6 | - | - | 75.00 |
| JD Middlebrook | not out | 17 | 18 | 21 | - | - | 94.44 |
| A Roberts | did not bat | ||||||
| DD Masters | did not bat | ||||||
| Danish Kaneria | did not bat | ||||||
| MA Chambers | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 2 lb, 4 nb, 2 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 20 overs) | 147 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Chopra), 2-9 (Napier), 3-57 (Flower), 4-81 (Gallian), 5-91 (ten Doeschate) | |||||||
| Kent bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Yasir Arafat | 3.1 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 19.00 | 9.47 |
| Azhar Mahmood | 4 | 0 | 21 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 5.25 |
| McLaren | 2.5 | 0 | 26 | 0 | - | - | - | 9.18 |
| Cook | 4 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.25 |
| Stevens | 2 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | - | 9.00 |
| Tredwell | 4 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 1 | - | 12.00 | 6.25 |
| Kent innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| JL Denly | b Masters | 24 | 29 | 46 | 3 | - | 82.76 |
| *RWT Key | b Napier | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| M van Jaarsveld | b Danish Kaneria | 32 | 27 | 25 | 5 | - | 118.52 |
| JM Kemp | b ten Doeschate | 15 | 13 | 10 | 2 | - | 115.38 |
| DI Stevens | c Masters b Flower | 14 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 175.00 |
| +GO Jones | c ten Doeschate b Flower | 15 | 17 | 19 | - | 1 | 88.24 |
| Azhar Mahmood | c Middlebrook b Flower | 20 | 12 | 15 | - | 2 | 166.67 |
| R McLaren | b ten Doeschate | 3 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 150.00 |
| Yasir Arafat | not out | 14 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 175.00 |
| JC Tredwell | not out | 2 | 4 | 6 | - | - | 50.00 |
| SJ Cook | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 2 nb, 1 w) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 20 overs) | 146 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9 (Key), 2-57 (van Jaarsveld), 3-76 (Kemp), 4-85 (Denly), 5-93 (Stevens), 6-119 (Jones), 7-130 (Azhar Mahmood), 8-132 (McLaren) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Napier | 4 | 0 | 27 | 1 | - | 1 | 24.00 | 6.75 |
| Masters | 4 | 1 | 24 | 1 | 1 | - | 24.00 | 6.00 |
| Chambers | 1 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | - | 16.00 |
| ten Doeschate | 4 | 0 | 20 | 2 | - | - | 12.00 | 5.00 |
| Danish Kaneria | 4 | 0 | 25 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 6.25 |
| Middlebrook | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | - | - | 9.00 |
| Flower | 2 | 0 | 21 | 3 | - | - | 4.00 | 10.50 |