| a712 | |
| Venue | Garrison A Cricket Ground, Colchester on 4th June 1972 (40-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Essex won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | No result |
| Points | Essex 1; Lancashire 1 |
| Umpires | F Jakeman, A Jepson |
| Lancashire innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| KL Snellgrove | c Turner b Edmeades | 8 | |||||
| B Wood | c East b Lever | 4 | |||||
| H Pilling | c Taylor b Boyce | 3 | |||||
| CH Lloyd | not out | 50 | |||||
| J Sullivan | c Ward b Hobbs | 30 | |||||
| +FM Engineer | not out | 0 | |||||
| *JD Bond | did not bat | ||||||
| DP Hughes | did not bat | ||||||
| J Simmons | did not bat | ||||||
| P Lever | did not bat | ||||||
| K Shuttleworth | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 2 nb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 24.5 overs) | 98 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6, 2-9, 3-28, 4-98 | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Boyce | 4 | 1 | 9 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 2.25 |
| Lever | 4 | 0 | 7 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 1.75 |
| Turner | 4 | 1 | 7 | 0 | - | - | - | 1.75 |
| Edmeades | 8 | 1 | 41 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 5.12 |
| Acfield | 2 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | - | 9.00 |
| Hobbs | 2.5 | 0 | 13 | 1 | - | - | 17.00 | 4.59 |
| Essex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BEA Edmeades | did not bat | ||||||
| *+B Taylor | did not bat | ||||||
| KWR Fletcher | did not bat | ||||||
| B Ward | did not bat | ||||||
| KD Boyce | did not bat | ||||||
| GJ Saville | did not bat | ||||||
| S Turner | did not bat | ||||||
| RNS Hobbs | did not bat | ||||||
| RE East | did not bat | ||||||
| JK Lever | did not bat | ||||||
| DL Acfield | did not bat | ||||||