a1787	Essex v Gloucestershire
	John Player League 1976
Venue	County Ground, Chelmsford on 15th August 1976 (40-over match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Essex won the toss and decided to field
Result	Gloucestershire won by 18 runs
Points	Essex 0; Gloucestershire 4
Umpires	WE Phillipson, AEG Rhodes

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Gloucestershire innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S-Rate
Sadiq Mohammad	run out	26
AW Stovold	c and b Lever	3
Zaheer Abbas	c Hardie b Acfield	31
AJ Hignell	c East b Lever	16
MJ Procter	lbw b Boyce	5
JC Foat	b Turner	4
*AS Brown	b East	13
DA Graveney	not out	23
+AJ Brassington	b Lever	5
BM Brain	not out	9
JH Childs	did not bat
Extras	(1 b, 9 lb, 7 nb)	17
Total	(8 wickets, innings closed, 40 overs)	152
Fall of wickets:
1-5, 2-62, 3-67, 4-76, 5-88, 6-109, 7-109, 8-138

Essex bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls	S-Rate	Econ
Boyce	8	1	30	1	-	-	48.00	3.75
Lever	8	1	16	3	-	-	16.00	2.00
Acfield	8	1	24	1	-	-	48.00	3.00
Turner	8	1	36	1	-	-	48.00	4.50
East	8	1	29	1	-	-	48.00	3.62

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Essex innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S-Rate
BR Hardie	st Brassington b Childs	16
KS McEwan	b Procter	3
*KWR Fletcher	c Stovold b Sadiq Mohammad	65
GA Gooch	c Graveney b Brown	7
KR Pont	c and b Brown	10
S Turner	lbw b Brown	0
KD Boyce	run out	17
RE East	run out	3
+N Smith	b Sadiq Mohammad	0
JK Lever	not out	8
DL Acfield	c Brassington b Procter	1
Extras	(4 lb)	4
Total	(all out, 37.1 overs)	134
Fall of wickets:
1-9, 2-34, 3-54, 4-68, 5-68, 6-112, 7-124, 8-125, 9-125, 10-134 (37.1 ov)

Gloucestershire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls	S-Rate	Econ
Brain	7	1	24	0	-	-	-	3.43
Procter	6.1	2	11	2	-	-	18.50	1.78
Graveney	8	0	27	0	-	-	-	3.38
Childs	7	0	31	1	-	-	42.00	4.43
Brown	8	1	28	3	-	-	16.00	3.50
Sadiq Mohammad	1	0	9	2	-	-	3.00	9.00

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