| a2638 | |
| Venue | County Ground, Taunton on 17th May 1980 (55-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Middlesex won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Middlesex won by 1 run |
| Points | Somerset 0; Middlesex 2 |
| Umpires | DJ Halfyard, PB Wight |
| Player of the Match | PH Edmonds |
| Middlesex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *JM Brearley | c Denning b Dredge | 6 | |||||
| MJ Smith | c Botham b Jennings | 13 | |||||
| CT Radley | lbw b Dredge | 0 | |||||
| GD Barlow | c Slocombe b Moseley | 93 | |||||
| MW Gatting | not out | 95 | |||||
| +IJ Gould | c Denning b Moseley | 7 | |||||
| PH Edmonds | c Denning b Moseley | 32 | |||||
| JE Emburey | not out | 5 | |||||
| VAP van der Bijl | did not bat | ||||||
| MWW Selvey | did not bat | ||||||
| WW Daniel | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 21 lb, 1 nb, 5 w) | 31 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 55 overs) | 282 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11, 2-11, 3-45, 4-208, 5-218, 6-264 | |||||||
| Somerset bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Moseley | 11 | 2 | 39 | 3 | - | - | 22.00 | 3.55 |
| Dredge | 11 | 0 | 59 | 2 | - | - | 33.00 | 5.36 |
| Popplewell | 8 | 1 | 42 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.25 |
| Jennings | 11 | 2 | 39 | 1 | - | - | 66.00 | 3.55 |
| Breakwell | 7 | 1 | 31 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.43 |
| Marks | 7 | 0 | 41 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.86 |
| Somerset innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| SM Gavaskar | st Gould b Edmonds | 123 | |||||
| PW Denning | c Daniel b Edmonds | 42 | |||||
| PA Slocombe | c Emburey b Edmonds | 42 | |||||
| *IT Botham | c Edmonds b Selvey | 3 | |||||
| D Breakwell | c Daniel b Edmonds | 4 | |||||
| VJ Marks | c Radley b Daniel | 10 | |||||
| +DJS Taylor | run out | 21 | |||||
| NFM Popplewell | not out | 13 | |||||
| KF Jennings | run out | 0 | |||||
| CH Dredge | not out | 3 | |||||
| HR Moseley | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 b, 6 lb, 8 nb, 3 w) | 20 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 55 overs) | 281 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-120, 2-217, 3-220, 4-227, 5-229, 6-254, 7-268, 8-273 | |||||||
| Middlesex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Daniel | 11 | 3 | 32 | 1 | - | - | 66.00 | 2.91 |
| van der Bijl | 11 | 1 | 54 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.91 |
| Emburey | 11 | 0 | 49 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.45 |
| Selvey | 8 | 0 | 64 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 8.00 |
| Edmonds | 11 | 0 | 45 | 4 | - | - | 16.50 | 4.09 |
| Gatting | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.67 |