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| Venue | Wellingborough School Ground, Wellingborough on 11th, 13th, 14th August 1979 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Northamptonshire won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Northamptonshire 7 (Batting 4, Bowling 3); Leicestershire 4 (Batting 2, Bowling 2) |
| Umpires | HD Bird, BJ Meyer |
| Close of play day 1 | Leicestershire (1) 54/1 (Dudleston 21*, Balderstone 12*; 21 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | Leicestershire (1) 211/7 (Birkenshaw 33*, Shuttleworth 0*; 77.2 overs) |
| Northamptonshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| G Cook | c Birkenshaw b Higgs | 1 | |||||
| W Larkins | c Balderstone b Steele | 115 | |||||
| RG Williams | c Dudleston b Clift | 27 | |||||
| AJ Lamb | b Clift | 77 | |||||
| P Willey | c Briers b Shuttleworth | 17 | |||||
| TJ Yardley | not out | 17 | |||||
| +G Sharp | run out | 20 | |||||
| *PJ Watts | not out | 10 | |||||
| Sarfraz Nawaz | did not bat | ||||||
| TM Lamb | did not bat | ||||||
| BJ Griffiths | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (11 b, 5 lb) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 100 overs) | 300 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-30, 2-80, 3-214, 4-248, 5-254, 6-282 | |||||||
| Leicestershire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Higgs | 17 | 6 | 30 | 1 | - | - | |
| Shuttleworth | 19 | 3 | 73 | 1 | - | - | |
| Clift | 29 | 7 | 65 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cook | 11 | 3 | 33 | 0 | - | - | |
| Steele | 12 | 2 | 43 | 1 | - | - | |
| Birkenshaw | 12 | 2 | 40 | 0 | - | - | |
| Leicestershire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +B Dudleston | c AJ Lamb b Williams | 60 | |||||
| JF Steele | c Yardley b Griffiths | 11 | |||||
| JC Balderstone | c Yardley b Griffiths | 33 | |||||
| BF Davison | lbw b Williams | 3 | |||||
| DI Gower | b Griffiths | 0 | |||||
| PB Clift | b Sarfraz Nawaz | 35 | |||||
| NE Briers | c Cook b Willey | 13 | |||||
| J Birkenshaw | not out | 33 | |||||
| K Shuttleworth | not out | 0 | |||||
| *K Higgs | did not bat | ||||||
| NGB Cook | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 7 lb, 11 nb) | 23 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 77.2 overs) | 211 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-23, 2-107, 3-119, 4-120, 5-126, 6-158, 7-211 | |||||||
| Northamptonshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Sarfraz Nawaz | 12.2 | 5 | 29 | 1 | - | - | |
| Griffiths | 17 | 4 | 38 | 3 | - | - | |
| Willey | 25 | 6 | 77 | 1 | - | - | |
| Williams | 21 | 9 | 43 | 2 | - | - | |
| TM Lamb | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |