| a2765 | |
| Venue | Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood on 3rd August 1980 (40-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Essex won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Essex won by 57 runs |
| Points | Middlesex 0; Essex 4 |
| Umpires | D Shackleton, PB Wight |
| Essex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| GA Gooch | c Butcher b Gatting | 86 | |||||
| +N Smith | c Butcher b Daniel | 60 | |||||
| KS McEwan | st Downton b Selvey | 14 | |||||
| *KWR Fletcher | not out | 34 | |||||
| N Phillip | c Emburey b Tomlins | 32 | |||||
| BR Hardie | b Hughes | 8 | |||||
| KR Pont | not out | 1 | |||||
| DR Pringle | did not bat | ||||||
| S Turner | did not bat | ||||||
| JK Lever | did not bat | ||||||
| DL Acfield | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 9 lb, 6 w) | 20 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 38 overs) | 255 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-116, 2-156, 3-189, 4-237, 5-254 | |||||||
| Middlesex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Daniel | 8 | 0 | 39 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 4.88 |
| Selvey | 8 | 0 | 32 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 4.00 |
| Hughes | 7 | 1 | 54 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 7.71 |
| Gatting | 6 | 0 | 48 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 8.00 |
| Emburey | 8 | 0 | 46 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.75 |
| Tomlins | 1 | 0 | 16 | 1 | - | - | 6.00 | 16.00 |
| Middlesex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| CT Radley | b Lever | 81 | |||||
| *JM Brearley | st Smith b Turner | 44 | |||||
| MW Gatting | b Turner | 16 | |||||
| RO Butcher | c and b Gooch | 2 | |||||
| IJ Gould | c Acfield b Pont | 10 | |||||
| WW Daniel | b Turner | 0 | |||||
| JE Emburey | c Gooch b Turner | 5 | |||||
| KP Tomlins | run out | 8 | |||||
| +PR Downton | b Lever | 12 | |||||
| MWW Selvey | c Lever b Pringle | 4 | |||||
| SP Hughes | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (10 lb, 6 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 35.1 overs) | 198 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-79, 2-113, 3-118, 4-135, 5-136, 6-152, 7-175, 8-183, 9-198, 10-198 (35.1 ov) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Lever | 7 | 1 | 26 | 2 | - | - | 21.00 | 3.71 |
| Phillip | 4 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.00 |
| Gooch | 8 | 0 | 45 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 5.62 |
| Acfield | 2 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | - | 10.00 |
| Turner | 7 | 0 | 33 | 4 | - | - | 10.50 | 4.71 |
| Pont | 5 | 0 | 29 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 5.80 |
| Pringle | 2.1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | - | - | 13.00 | 4.15 |