| a2706 | |
| Venue | Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood on 25th, 26th June 1980 (55-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Northamptonshire won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Northamptonshire won by 11 runs |
| Umpires | WL Budd, AGT Whitehead |
| Close of play day 1 | Middlesex 128/5 (Gatting 59*, van der Bijl 0*; 41 overs) |
| Player of the Match | RG Williams |
| Northamptonshire innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| G Cook | c Gatting b Selvey | 17 | |||||
| W Larkins | c Barlow b Emburey | 62 | |||||
| RG Williams | not out | 73 | |||||
| AJ Lamb | c Daniel b Emburey | 1 | |||||
| P Willey | run out | 4 | |||||
| TJ Yardley | b Daniel | 7 | |||||
| +G Sharp | b Gatting | 15 | |||||
| *PJ Watts | b Gatting | 2 | |||||
| Sarfraz Nawaz | c and b Gatting | 1 | |||||
| TM Lamb | did not bat | ||||||
| BJ Griffiths | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (9 b, 5 lb, 7 nb, 3 w) | 24 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 55 overs) | 206 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-62, 2-136, 3-142, 4-152, 5-172, 6-198, 7-204, 8-206 (55 ov) | |||||||
| Middlesex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Daniel | 11 | 2 | 44 | 1 | - | - | 66.00 | 4.00 |
| van der Bijl | 11 | 3 | 21 | 0 | - | - | - | 1.91 |
| Selvey | 11 | 3 | 27 | 1 | - | - | 66.00 | 2.45 |
| Gatting | 11 | 0 | 68 | 3 | - | - | 22.00 | 6.18 |
| Emburey | 11 | 2 | 22 | 2 | - | - | 33.00 | 2.00 |
| Middlesex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *JM Brearley | lbw b Griffiths | 0 | |||||
| WN Slack | st Sharp b Williams | 42 | |||||
| CT Radley | c Sharp b Sarfraz Nawaz | 13 | |||||
| GD Barlow | lbw b Sarfraz Nawaz | 0 | |||||
| MW Gatting | b Sarfraz Nawaz | 91 | |||||
| RO Butcher | c Watts b Williams | 6 | |||||
| VAP van der Bijl | c Yardley b Willey | 18 | |||||
| +IJ Gould | b Sarfraz Nawaz | 8 | |||||
| JE Emburey | c Sharp b Sarfraz Nawaz | 1 | |||||
| MWW Selvey | c Sarfraz Nawaz b Griffiths | 2 | |||||
| WW Daniel | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (12 lb, 1 nb, 1 w) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 53.4 overs) | 195 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1, 2-16, 3-16, 4-114, 5-128, 6-165, 7-185, 8-191, 9-193, 10-195 (53.4 ov) | |||||||
| Northamptonshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Sarfraz Nawaz | 11 | 4 | 21 | 5 | - | - | 13.20 | 1.91 |
| Griffiths | 10.4 | 2 | 25 | 2 | - | - | 32.00 | 2.34 |
| Watts | 7 | 1 | 30 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.29 |
| TM Lamb | 11 | 1 | 31 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.82 |
| Willey | 9 | 0 | 50 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 5.56 |
| Williams | 5 | 0 | 24 | 2 | - | - | 15.00 | 4.80 |