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| Venue | Alexandra Meadows, Blackburn on 17th August 1940 (1-day single innings match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | Colne won by 87 runs |
| Points | East Lancashire 0; Colne 3 |
| Colne innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| N Ingham | c Shorrock b Warburton | 1 | |||||
| L Sutcliffe | b Warburton | 1 | |||||
| E Brown | c Pickering b Entwistle | 12 | |||||
| *H Hardacre | c Pickering b Entwistle | 7 | |||||
| W Hirst | c Warburton b Robinson | 125 | |||||
| +R Mitchell | b Robinson | 34 | |||||
| E Waddington | b Warburton | 8 | |||||
| E Dyson | b Warburton | 21 | |||||
| A Wharton | c Green b Robinson | 15 | |||||
| A Crabtree | c Edwardson b Warburton | 16 | |||||
| T Lanham | not out | 6 | |||||
| Extras | (5 b, 4 lb, 1 nb) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 35.3 overs) | 256 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1, 2-6, 3-23, 4-23, 5-182, 6-197, 7-198, 8-223, 9-243, 10-256 (35.3 ov) | |||||||
| East Lancashire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Entwistle | 7 | 1 | 30 | 2 | - | ||
| Warburton | 11.3 | 1 | 58 | 5 | - | ||
| Edwardson | 4 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | ||
| Shorrock | 3 | 0 | 42 | 0 | - | ||
| Green | 5 | 0 | 44 | 0 | - | ||
| Robinson | 5 | 0 | 57 | 3 | - | ||
| East Lancashire innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| V Winsor | b Sutcliffe | 14 | |||||
| LJ Pickering | lbw b Sutcliffe | 6 | |||||
| AA Alston | c and b Sutcliffe | 23 | |||||
| *L Warburton | not out | 70 | |||||
| J Reid | b Crabtree | 5 | |||||
| A Entwistle | b Sutcliffe | 0 | |||||
| LK Robinson | b Sutcliffe | 6 | |||||
| TH Edwardson | c Ingham b Sutcliffe | 6 | |||||
| W Green | b Lanham | 29 | |||||
| HL Shorrock | lbw b Sutcliffe | 0 | |||||
| +J Jump | run out | 8 | |||||
| Extras | (2 lb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 36.6 overs) | 169 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-13, 2-24, 3-51, 4-60, 5-61, 6-83, 7-95, 8-129, 9-140, 10-169 (36.6 ov) | |||||||
| Colne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Sutcliffe | 18 | 2 | 49 | 7 | - | - | |
| Hardacre | 5 | 0 | 28 | 0 | - | - | |
| Crabtree | 7 | 0 | 47 | 1 | - | - | |
| Lanham | 6 | 0 | 37 | 1 | - | - | |
| Dyson | 0.6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |