| a2374 | |
| Venue | FP Fenner's Ground, Cambridge on 12th May 1979 (55-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Combined Universities won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Northamptonshire won by 9 wickets |
| Points | Combined Universities 0; Northamptonshire 3 |
| Umpires | JVC Griffiths, R Julian |
| Player of the Match | JM Knight |
| Combined Universities innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AM Mubarak | c Willey b Sarfraz Nawaz | 0 | |||||
| NHC Cooper | c Carter b Sarfraz Nawaz | 37 | |||||
| AR Dewes | c Willey b TM Lamb | 0 | |||||
| SM Clements | b Willey | 7 | |||||
| DR Pringle | b Williams | 11 | |||||
| *IA Greig | c AJ Lamb b Williams | 13 | |||||
| NFM Popplewell | c Yardley b Hodgson | 6 | |||||
| +PR Cottrell | lbw b TM Lamb | 4 | |||||
| JM Knight | not out | 54 | |||||
| D Surridge | not out | 11 | |||||
| CJ Ross | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 4 lb) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 55 overs) | 151 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0, 2-19, 3-20, 4-42, 5-64, 6-75, 7-78, 8-93 | |||||||
| Northamptonshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Sarfraz Nawaz | 11 | 6 | 10 | 2 | - | - | 33.00 | 0.91 |
| Hodgson | 9 | 0 | 41 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 4.56 |
| Willey | 11 | 5 | 16 | 1 | - | - | 66.00 | 1.45 |
| TM Lamb | 11 | 3 | 35 | 2 | - | - | 33.00 | 3.18 |
| Williams | 11 | 2 | 26 | 2 | - | - | 33.00 | 2.36 |
| Larkins | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.50 |
| Northamptonshire innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *G Cook | c Knight b Ross | 81 | |||||
| W Larkins | not out | 54 | |||||
| P Willey | not out | 7 | |||||
| RG Williams | did not bat | ||||||
| AJ Lamb | did not bat | ||||||
| TJ Yardley | did not bat | ||||||
| RM Carter | did not bat | ||||||
| +G Sharp | did not bat | ||||||
| A Hodgson | did not bat | ||||||
| TM Lamb | did not bat | ||||||
| Sarfraz Nawaz | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 6 lb, 5 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 52.4 overs) | 154 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-134 (Cook) | |||||||
| Combined Universities bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Surridge | 7 | 1 | 18 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.57 |
| Knight | 4 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.75 |
| Ross | 11 | 2 | 28 | 1 | - | - | 66.00 | 2.55 |
| Cooper | 11 | 2 | 19 | 0 | - | - | - | 1.73 |
| Popplewell | 11 | 2 | 34 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.09 |
| Pringle | 8.4 | 0 | 32 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.69 |