| a20681 | |
| Venue | County Ground, Northampton on 25th July 2010 (40-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Northamptonshire won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Essex won by 9 wickets |
| Points | Northamptonshire 0; Essex 2 |
| Umpires | NA Mallender, RT Robinson |
| Scorers | AE Choat (Essex), AC Kingston (Northamptonshire) |
| Northamptonshire innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| RA White | b Wright | 5 | 12 | 14 | 1 | - | 41.67 |
| RI Newton | c Masters b Flower | 66 | 78 | 88 | 7 | - | 84.62 |
| AG Wakely | b Westley | 29 | 25 | 35 | 5 | - | 116.00 |
| DJG Sales | c Pettini b Phillips | 23 | 23 | 27 | - | 1 | 100.00 |
| SD Peters | lbw b Flower | 7 | 17 | 12 | - | - | 41.18 |
| E Chigumbura | c Flower b Masters | 24 | 30 | 46 | - | 1 | 80.00 |
| *AJ Hall | lbw b Carter | 10 | 19 | 16 | 1 | - | 52.63 |
| +D Murphy | c Pettini b Masters | 4 | 9 | 13 | - | - | 44.44 |
| JD Middlebrook | not out | 14 | 16 | 22 | - | - | 87.50 |
| DJ Willey | lbw b Carter | 6 | 8 | 8 | - | - | 75.00 |
| LM Daggett | not out | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 33.33 |
| Extras | (3 lb, 6 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 40 overs) | 198 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-15 (White, 4 ov), 2-76 (Wakely, 13.1 ov), 3-123 (Sales, 21.5 ov), 4-135 (Newton, 24.2 ov), 5-138 (Peters, 26.1 ov), 6-161 (Hall, 31.2 ov), 7-174 (Murphy, 34.5 ov), 8-180 (Chigumbura, 36.5 ov), 9-194 (Willey, 39.1 ov) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Masters | 8 | 0 | 38 | 2 | - | - | 24.00 | 4.75 |
| Phillips | 7 | 0 | 41 | 1 | 2 | - | 42.00 | 5.86 |
| Wright | 3 | 0 | 20 | 1 | - | - | 18.00 | 6.67 |
| Carter | 8 | 0 | 31 | 2 | 2 | - | 24.00 | 3.88 |
| Westley | 6 | 0 | 34 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 5.67 |
| Flower | 8 | 0 | 31 | 2 | 2 | - | 24.00 | 3.88 |
| Essex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ML Pettini | c Peters b Chigumbura | 58 | 61 | 60 | 9 | 1 | 95.08 |
| RS Bopara | not out | 88 | 89 | 117 | 8 | 2 | 98.88 |
| GW Flower | not out | 35 | 51 | 54 | 1 | - | 68.63 |
| MJ Walker | did not bat | ||||||
| *+JS Foster | did not bat | ||||||
| T Westley | did not bat | ||||||
| AJA Wheater | did not bat | ||||||
| TJ Phillips | did not bat | ||||||
| DD Masters | did not bat | ||||||
| CJC Wright | did not bat | ||||||
| A Carter | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (7 lb, 2 nb, 9 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 33.2 overs) | 199 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-99 (Pettini, 16.4 ov) | |||||||
| Northamptonshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Daggett | 5 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.20 |
| Willey | 8 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 4 | - | - | 5.88 |
| Chigumbura | 7.2 | 0 | 44 | 1 | - | 1 | 44.00 | 6.00 |
| Hall | 5 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 6.00 |
| Middlebrook | 8 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 6.25 |