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| Venue | The Ford County Ground, Chelmsford on 1st June 2009 (20-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Essex won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Essex won by 36 runs |
| Points | Essex 2; Kent 0 |
| Umpires | NGB Cook, RT Robinson |
| Scorers | AE Choat (Essex), JC Foley (Kent) |
| Player of the Match | GW Flower |
| Essex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *ML Pettini | c McLaren b Tredwell | 40 | 26 | 36 | 5 | - | 153.85 |
| AN Cook | c Joseph b McLaren | 77 | 55 | 66 | 9 | 2 | 140.00 |
| GW Flower | c Jones b Azhar Mahmood | 61 | 30 | 36 | 10 | 1 | 203.33 |
| MJ Walker | run out | 16 | 9 | 12 | 2 | - | 177.78 |
| JD Middlebrook | not out | 1 | 1 | 5 | - | - | 100.00 |
| V Chopra | not out | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| MA Hardinges | did not bat | ||||||
| +AJA Wheater | did not bat | ||||||
| DD Masters | did not bat | ||||||
| Danish Kaneria | did not bat | ||||||
| CJC Wright | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 lb, 2 nb, 5 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, innings closed, 20 overs) | 205 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-90 (Pettini), 2-179 (Cook), 3-193 (Flower), 4-204 (Walker) | |||||||
| Kent bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| McLaren | 4 | 0 | 50 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 24.00 | 12.50 |
| Joseph | 3 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.67 |
| Azhar Mahmood | 4 | 0 | 41 | 1 | 2 | - | 24.00 | 10.25 |
| Cook | 3 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 13.33 |
| Tredwell | 4 | 0 | 33 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 8.25 |
| Kemp | 2 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | - | 9.00 |
| Kent innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| JL Denly | c and b Masters | 32 | 24 | 22 | 7 | - | 133.33 |
| JB Hockley | c Flower b Wright | 0 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| *M van Jaarsveld | b Flower | 33 | 25 | 31 | 5 | - | 132.00 |
| +GO Jones | c Danish Kaneria b Flower | 26 | 18 | 25 | 3 | - | 144.44 |
| DI Stevens | c Flower b Danish Kaneria | 25 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 192.31 |
| JM Kemp | b Flower | 12 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 150.00 |
| Azhar Mahmood | c Flower b Danish Kaneria | 8 | 8 | 10 | 1 | - | 100.00 |
| R McLaren | not out | 21 | 16 | 17 | 2 | - | 131.25 |
| SJ Cook | not out | 8 | 7 | 13 | 1 | - | 114.29 |
| JC Tredwell | did not bat | ||||||
| RH Joseph | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 20 overs) | 169 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5 (Hockley), 2-49 (Denly), 3-88 (van Jaarsveld), 4-117 (Stevens), 5-120 (Jones), 6-139 (Kemp), 7-145 (Azhar Mahmood) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Wright | 4 | 0 | 34 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 8.50 |
| Masters | 4 | 0 | 27 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 6.75 |
| Danish Kaneria | 4 | 0 | 37 | 2 | - | - | 12.00 | 9.25 |
| Hardinges | 3 | 0 | 31 | 0 | - | - | - | 10.33 |
| Middlebrook | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - | - | 10.00 |
| Flower | 4 | 0 | 26 | 3 | - | - | 8.00 | 6.50 |