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| Venue | County Ground, Northampton on 4th, 6th, 7th June 1977 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Northamptonshire 8 (Batting 4, Bowling 4); Leicestershire 4 (Batting 1, Bowling 3) |
| Umpires | A Jepson, TW Spencer |
| Close of play day 1 | Leicestershire (1) 29/2 (Steele 13*, Booth 1*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Leicestershire (1) 71/6 (Steele 21*, Birkenshaw 3*) |
| Northamptonshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RT Virgin | not out | 105 | |||||
| G Cook | c Dudleston b Higgs | 8 | |||||
| DS Steele | b Higgs | 42 | |||||
| *Mushtaq Mohammad | c Birkenshaw b Higgs | 40 | |||||
| W Larkins | c Shuttleworth b Booth | 16 | |||||
| TJ Yardley | c Shuttleworth b Clift | 2 | |||||
| +G Sharp | b Clift | 16 | |||||
| Sarfraz Nawaz | c Davison b Clift | 41 | |||||
| A Hodgson | not out | 11 | |||||
| BS Bedi | did not bat | ||||||
| JCJ Dye | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 14 lb, 4 nb) | 22 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 100 overs) | 303 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-14, 2-92, 3-154, 4-177, 5-194, 6-228, 7-280 | |||||||
| Leicestershire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Booth | 16 | 1 | 57 | 1 | - | - | |
| Higgs | 25 | 5 | 51 | 3 | - | - | |
| Shuttleworth | 24 | 4 | 53 | 0 | - | - | |
| Clift | 30 | 4 | 105 | 3 | - | - | |
| Birkenshaw | 5 | 2 | 15 | 0 | - | - | |
| Leicestershire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +B Dudleston | c Steele b Sarfraz Nawaz | 4 | |||||
| JF Steele | c Mushtaq Mohammad b Sarfraz Nawaz | 46 | |||||
| JC Balderstone | lbw b Sarfraz Nawaz | 4 | |||||
| P Booth | c Cook b Dye | 1 | |||||
| BF Davison | c Sharp b Dye | 4 | |||||
| DI Gower | c Sharp b Dye | 15 | |||||
| *R Illingworth | c Steele b Dye | 9 | |||||
| J Birkenshaw | c sub b Hodgson | 34 | |||||
| PB Clift | c Virgin b Sarfraz Nawaz | 10 | |||||
| K Shuttleworth | c Sharp b Hodgson | 0 | |||||
| K Higgs | not out | 5 | |||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 18 nb) | 20 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 53.4 overs) | 152 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-12, 2-22, 3-29, 4-33, 5-53, 6-67, 7-121, 8-138, 9-138, 10-152 (53.4 ov) | |||||||
| Northamptonshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Sarfraz Nawaz | 24.4 | 7 | 56 | 4 | - | - | |
| Dye | 18 | 5 | 55 | 4 | - | - | |
| Hodgson | 10 | 2 | 20 | 2 | - | - | |
| Steele | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| Leicestershire second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +B Dudleston | not out | 23 | |||||
| JF Steele | not out | 8 | |||||
| JC Balderstone | did not bat | ||||||
| P Booth | did not bat | ||||||
| BF Davison | did not bat | ||||||
| DI Gower | did not bat | ||||||
| *R Illingworth | did not bat | ||||||
| J Birkenshaw | did not bat | ||||||
| PB Clift | did not bat | ||||||
| K Shuttleworth | did not bat | ||||||
| K Higgs | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 nb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (no wicket, 26.2 overs) | 35 | |||||
| Northamptonshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Sarfraz Nawaz | 7 | 4 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dye | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Hodgson | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| Steele | 5.2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cook | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - | |
| Mushtaq Mohammad | 4 | 3 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| Larkins | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | - | - | |