| a708 | |
| Venue | Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood on 3rd, 5th June 1972 (55-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Middlesex won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Middlesex won by 51 runs |
| Points | Middlesex 3; Essex 0 |
| Umpires | CS Elliott, CG Pepper |
| Close of play day 1 | Essex 80/6 (Saville 36*, Hobbs 1*; 31 overs) |
| Player of the Match | PH Parfitt |
| Middlesex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| WE Russell | b Edmeades | 42 | 83 | 6 | - | ||
| MJ Smith | c Saville b Boyce | 2 | 10 | - | - | ||
| PH Parfitt | c Taylor b Boyce | 110 | 188 | 8 | 2 | ||
| CT Radley | lbw b Edmeades | 4 | 14 | - | - | ||
| *JM Brearley | c Lever b Acfield | 21 | 38 | 2 | 1 | ||
| +JT Murray | c Taylor b Boyce | 27 | 50 | 4 | - | ||
| CJR Black | not out | 2 | 9 | - | - | ||
| KV Jones | not out | 1 | 1 | - | - | ||
| FJ Titmus | did not bat | ||||||
| JSE Price | did not bat | ||||||
| MWW Selvey | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (12 b, 4 lb, 7 nb) | 23 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 201 minutes, 55 overs) | 232 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5, 2-72, 3-92, 4-147, 5-216, 6-231 | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Boyce | 11 | 2 | 56 | 3 | - | - | 22.00 | 5.09 |
| Lever | 10 | 0 | 42 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.20 |
| Edmeades | 11 | 4 | 31 | 2 | - | - | 33.00 | 2.82 |
| Turner | 11 | 0 | 28 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.55 |
| Acfield | 6 | 0 | 35 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 5.83 |
| Hobbs | 6 | 1 | 17 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.83 |
| Essex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BEA Edmeades | c Radley b Price | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| GJ Saville | not out | 85 | |||||
| KWR Fletcher | c Price b Jones | 20 | 58 | 2 | - | ||
| B Ward | run out | 17 | 14 | 3 | - | ||
| KD Boyce | lbw b Jones | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| *+B Taylor | run out | 1 | 12 | - | - | ||
| S Turner | b Titmus | 0 | 4 | - | - | ||
| RNS Hobbs | b Black | 40 | |||||
| RE East | not out | 4 | |||||
| JK Lever | did not bat | ||||||
| DL Acfield | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 5 lb, 4 w) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 55 overs) | 181 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0, 2-47, 3-67, 4-67, 5-71, 6-75, 7-166 | |||||||
| Middlesex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Price | 11 | 2 | 22 | 1 | - | - | 66.00 | 2.00 |
| Selvey | 11 | 1 | 34 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.09 |
| Jones | 11 | 2 | 40 | 2 | - | - | 33.00 | 3.64 |
| Titmus | 11 | 5 | 15 | 1 | - | - | 66.00 | 1.36 |
| Black | 4 | 0 | 17 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 4.25 |
| Parfitt | 4 | 0 | 19 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.75 |
| Smith | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.00 |
| Brearley | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | - | 8.00 |