sec1604	Essex Second XI v Surrey Second XI
	Second Eleven Championship 1973
Venue	John H Burrows Recreation Ground, Hadleigh on 3rd, 4th September 1973 (2-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Surrey Second XI won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Surrey Second XI won by 143 runs
Points	Essex Second XI 9 (Batting 4, Bowling 5); Surrey Second XI 20 (Batting 5, Bowling 5)
Umpires	BE Knight, L Turner
Scorers	HD Ainsworth (Surrey Second XI), H Coyle (Essex Second XI)
Close of play day 1

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Surrey Second XI first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
+LE Skinner	b Stone	54
RM Lewis	run out	20
GP Howarth	c Cox b Pont	54
DR Owen-Thomas	c Tack b Cooke	41
CJ Aworth	c Hardie b Pont	8
AR Butcher	c Cox b Stone	34
DM Smith	c Smith b Stone	10
CE Waller	run out	0
RP Baker	b Tack	6
TW Higginson	c Tack b Stone	4
AH Larkcom	not out	2
Extras	(5 b, 4 lb)	9
Total	(all out, 56.5 overs)	242
Fall of wickets:
1-35 (Lewis), 2-129 (Howarth), 3-133 (Skinner), 4-148 (Aworth), 5-197 (Owen-Thomas), 6-222 (Butcher), 7-225 (Waller), 8-235 (Baker), 9-235 (Smith), 10-242 (Higginson, 56.5 ov)

Essex Second XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Tack	18	4	61	1	-	-
Old	3	0	21	0	-	-
Gooch	7	0	42	0	-	-
Stone	18.5	2	70	4	-	-
Pont	6	1	22	2	-	-
Cooke	4	0	17	1	-	-

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Essex Second XI first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*KW Wallace	b Smith	56
BR Hardie	c Baker b Smith	38
C Stone	c Skinner b Smith	15
RMO Cooke	c Lewis b Baker	35
KR Pont	c Waller b Smith	11
GA Gooch	c Larkcom b Baker	18
MSA McEvoy	c Skinner b Owen-Thomas	17
M Cox	b Baker	0
+N Smith	c Skinner b Smith	12
MA Tack	not out	1
W Old	b Smith	5
Extras	(9 b, 4 lb, 2 nb)	15
Total	(all out, 43.5 overs)	223
Fall of wickets:
1-85 (Hardie), 2-118 (Wallace), 3-119 (Stone), 4-157 (Pont), 5-173 (Cooke), 6-197 (Gooch), 7-197 (Cox), 8-214 (McEvoy), 9-217 (Smith), 10-223 (Old, 43.5 ov)

Surrey Second XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Butcher	6	0	31	0	-	-
Larkcom	4	0	38	0	-	-
Smith	12.5	3	39	6	-	-
Waller	7	3	27	0	-	-
Howarth	6	1	33	0	-	-
Baker	7	0	31	3	-	-
Owen-Thomas	1	0	9	1	-	-

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Surrey Second XI second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
RM Lewis	b Tack	40
+LE Skinner	c Stone b Tack	35
GP Howarth	c Old b Gooch	55
DR Owen-Thomas	c Wallace b Tack	3
CJ Aworth	c and b Stone	16
AR Butcher	c McEvoy b Tack	19
DM Smith	c and b Stone	0
RP Baker	c Old b Cooke	10
CE Waller	c Smith b Gooch	24
TW Higginson	c Hardie b Stone	1
AH Larkcom	not out	14
Extras	(12 b, 5 lb, 3 nb)	20
Total	(all out, 62.5 overs)	237
Fall of wickets:
1-74 (Lewis), 2-81 (Skinner), 3-89 (Owen-Thomas), 4-156 (Howarth), 5-174 (Aworth), 6-174 (Smith), 7-195 (Butcher), 8-203 (Baker), 9-209 (Higginson), 10-237 (Waller, 62.5 ov)

Essex Second XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Tack	16	3	61	4	-	-
Old	6	2	13	0	-	-
Cooke	7	2	19	1	-	-
Pont	2	0	19	0	-	-
Stone	22	6	71	3	-	-
Gooch	9.5	1	34	2	-	-

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Essex Second XI second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*KW Wallace	c Skinner b Larkcom	12
BR Hardie	c Howarth b Smith	52
C Stone	c Higginson b Smith	0
KR Pont	b Larkcom	1
RMO Cooke	c Lewis b Smith	3
GA Gooch	c and b Waller	17
MSA McEvoy	lbw b Butcher	1
+N Smith	c Smith b Waller	0
M Cox	c Skinner b Waller	9
MA Tack	st Skinner b Waller	4
W Old	not out	0
Extras	(8 b, 2 lb, 4 nb)	14
Total	(all out, 32.5 overs)	113
Fall of wickets:
1-18 (Wallace), 2-18 (Stone), 3-19 (Pont), 4-40 (Cooke), 5-73 (Gooch), 6-74 (McEvoy), 7-77 (Smith), 8-105 (Cox), 9-109 (Hardie), 10-113 (Tack, 32.5 ov)

Surrey Second XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Smith	8	0	33	3	-	-
Larkcom	4	0	23	2	-	-
Baker	3	1	5	0	-	-
Butcher	8	3	16	1	-	-
Higginson	1	0	1	0	-	-
Waller	8.5	3	21	4	-	-

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