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| Venue | Hoffman's Sports and Social Club Ground, Chelmsford on 25th May 1979 (40-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Essex Under-25s won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Leicestershire Under-25s won by 7 wickets (Run rate) |
| Points | Essex Under-25s 0; Leicestershire Under-25s 4 |
| Umpires | MAP Key, P Robson |
| Scorers | L Biddell (Essex), SG Chamberlain (Leicestershire) |
| Essex Under-25s innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +AW Lilley | c Parsons b Briers | 15 | 32 | - | - | ||
| MSA McEvoy | not out | 22 | 59 | 1 | - | ||
| R Herbert | c Schepens b Cook | 5 | 9 | - | - | ||
| C Gladwin | b Newman | 3 | 10 | - | - | ||
| CS Heyburn | not out | 6 | 5 | - | - | ||
| MJ Daniels | did not bat | ||||||
| NA Foster | did not bat | ||||||
| N King | did not bat | ||||||
| KJ Grant | did not bat | ||||||
| SJ Malone | did not bat | ||||||
| *GJ Saville | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 2 lb, 2 nb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, innings closed, 18.1 overs) | 56 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-29 (Lilley), 2-41 (Herbert), 3-47 (Gladwin) | |||||||
| Leicestershire Under-25s bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Agnew | 4 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | 1 | |
| Parsons | 4 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Briers | 3 | 0 | 10 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cook | 5 | 1 | 15 | 1 | - | - | |
| Newman | 2.1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Leicestershire Under-25s innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| NE Briers | c Lilley b Foster | 22 | 29 | 2 | - | ||
| RA Cobb | c Foster b Daniels | 6 | 18 | - | - | ||
| M Schepens | not out | 24 | 28 | 1 | - | ||
| +IP Butcher | run out | 0 | 3 | - | - | ||
| JE Smith | not out | 4 | 13 | - | - | ||
| NGB Cook | did not bat | ||||||
| GJ Parsons | did not bat | ||||||
| WD Munden | did not bat | ||||||
| PG Newman | did not bat | ||||||
| JP Agnew | did not bat | ||||||
| *B Dudleston | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 1 w) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 13.4 overs) | 58 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-20 (Cobb), 2-35 (Briers), 3-42 (Butcher) | |||||||
| Essex Under-25s bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Malone | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | - | |
| Daniels | 4 | 0 | 22 | 1 | - | - | |
| Foster | 4 | 1 | 16 | 1 | - | - | |
| Herbert | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |
| King | 0.4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | - | |