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| Venue | County Ground, Northampton on 29th, 31st July, 1st August 1978 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Gloucestershire won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Northamptonshire 4 (Bowling 4); Gloucestershire 3 (Batting 2, Bowling 1) |
| Umpires | R Aspinall, JG Langridge |
| Close of play day 1 | Northamptonshire (1) 39/3 (Larkins 22*, TM Lamb 4*; 16 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | Northamptonshire (1) 96/4 (Larkins 61*, Willey 15*; 42 overs) |
| Gloucestershire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AW Stovold | c Willey b Sarfraz Nawaz | 20 | |||||
| Sadiq Mohammad | b Watts | 45 | |||||
| Zaheer Abbas | lbw b TM Lamb | 34 | |||||
| DR Shepherd | c Yardley b Griffiths | 20 | |||||
| *MJ Procter | b Griffiths | 11 | |||||
| JC Foat | c Steele b Watts | 14 | |||||
| DA Graveney | c Sharp b Watts | 11 | |||||
| +AJ Brassington | lbw b Sarfraz Nawaz | 20 | |||||
| BM Brain | c Steele b TM Lamb | 10 | |||||
| J Davey | c and b Sarfraz Nawaz | 20 | |||||
| JH Childs | not out | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (4 b, 13 lb, 2 nb, 3 w) | 22 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 92.5 overs) | 228 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-40, 2-95, 3-120, 4-142, 5-149, 6-162, 7-181, 8-196, 9-219, 10-228 (92.5 ov) | |||||||
| Northamptonshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Sarfraz Nawaz | 26.5 | 8 | 50 | 3 | - | - | |
| Griffiths | 26 | 6 | 64 | 2 | - | - | |
| TM Lamb | 23 | 6 | 59 | 2 | - | - | |
| Watts | 15 | 4 | 32 | 3 | - | - | |
| Willey | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| Northamptonshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| G Cook | lbw b Brain | 3 | |||||
| W Larkins | not out | 61 | |||||
| DS Steele | c Brassington b Brain | 5 | |||||
| AJ Lamb | lbw b Brain | 4 | |||||
| TM Lamb | c Zaheer Abbas b Procter | 4 | |||||
| P Willey | not out | 15 | |||||
| TJ Yardley | did not bat | ||||||
| *PJ Watts | did not bat | ||||||
| +G Sharp | did not bat | ||||||
| Sarfraz Nawaz | did not bat | ||||||
| BJ Griffiths | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 2 nb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 42 overs) | 96 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4, 2-26, 3-30, 4-51 | |||||||
| Gloucestershire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Brain | 18 | 2 | 60 | 3 | - | - | |
| Procter | 8 | 2 | 13 | 1 | - | - | |
| Davey | 9 | 3 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Childs | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |