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| Venue | County Ground, Taunton on 27th, 29th, 30th July 1985 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Essex won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Essex won by 7 wickets |
| Points | Somerset 4 (Batting 4); Essex 20 (Bowling 4) |
| Umpires | KJ Lyons, R Palmer |
| Scorers | CF Driver (Essex), DAH Oldam (Somerset) |
| Close of play day 1 | Essex (1) 0/0 (Hardie 0*, Gooch 0*) |
| Close of play day 2 | No play |
| Somerset first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| NFM Popplewell | c East b IL Pont | 27 | 51 | 51 | 4 | - | |
| PM Roebuck | c East b IL Pont | 17 | 61 | 72 | 1 | - | |
| NA Felton | c East b KR Pont | 49 | 94 | 129 | 4 | - | |
| IVA Richards | c East b IL Pont | 5 | 4 | 8 | 1 | - | |
| JG Wyatt | c East b Pringle | 50 | 116 | 110 | 5 | - | |
| *IT Botham | c East b IL Pont | 152 | 121 | 154 | 16 | 4 | |
| VJ Marks | c East b Pringle | 17 | 41 | 53 | 1 | - | |
| +T Gard | not out | 27 | 96 | 104 | 1 | - | |
| MR Davis | c East b Pringle | 7 | 7 | 10 | 1 | - | |
| CH Dredge | b IL Pont | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | - | |
| J Garner | not out | 4 | 9 | 13 | - | - | |
| Extras | (4 lb, 2 nb, 1 w) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 361 minutes, 100 overs) | 363 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-36 (Popplewell), 2-45 (Roebuck), 3-56 (Richards), 4-148 (Felton), 5-162 (Wyatt), 6-246 (Marks), 7-343 (Botham), 8-352 (Davis), 9-353 (Dredge) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Pringle | 30 | 2 | 90 | 3 | - | - | |
| IL Pont | 24 | 2 | 103 | 5 | - | - | |
| Topley | 24 | 3 | 86 | 0 | - | - | |
| KR Pont | 11 | 0 | 45 | 1 | - | - | |
| Acfield | 11 | 1 | 35 | 0 | - | - | |
| Essex first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GA Gooch | c Gard b Wyatt | 19 | |||||
| BR Hardie | not out | 25 | |||||
| PJ Prichard | not out | 18 | |||||
| KS McEwan | did not bat | ||||||
| DR Pringle | did not bat | ||||||
| *KWR Fletcher | did not bat | ||||||
| KR Pont | did not bat | ||||||
| +DE East | did not bat | ||||||
| TD Topley | did not bat | ||||||
| DL Acfield | did not bat | ||||||
| IL Pont | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 2 w) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (1 wicket, declared, 13 overs) | 68 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-25 (Gooch) | |||||||
| Somerset bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Garner | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wyatt | 6 | 0 | 40 | 1 | - | - | |
| Roebuck | 6 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | |
| Somerset second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| NFM Popplewell | did not bat | ||||||
| PM Roebuck | did not bat | ||||||
| NA Felton | did not bat | ||||||
| IVA Richards | did not bat | ||||||
| JG Wyatt | did not bat | ||||||
| *IT Botham | did not bat | ||||||
| VJ Marks | did not bat | ||||||
| +T Gard | did not bat | ||||||
| MR Davis | did not bat | ||||||
| CH Dredge | did not bat | ||||||
| J Garner | did not bat | ||||||
| Innings Forfeited | |||||||
| Essex second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GA Gooch | not out | 173 | 190 | 21 | 2 | ||
| BR Hardie | b Dredge | 20 | |||||
| PJ Prichard | b Dredge | 44 | |||||
| KS McEwan | lbw b Dredge | 0 | |||||
| DR Pringle | not out | 45 | |||||
| *KWR Fletcher | did not bat | ||||||
| KR Pont | did not bat | ||||||
| +DE East | did not bat | ||||||
| TD Topley | did not bat | ||||||
| DL Acfield | did not bat | ||||||
| IL Pont | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (11 lb, 3 nb) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 69 overs) | 296 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-84, 2-165, 3-165 | |||||||
| Somerset bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wyatt | 3 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Botham | 8 | 0 | 61 | 0 | - | - | |
| Davis | 16 | 2 | 65 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dredge | 22 | 0 | 82 | 3 | - | - | |
| Marks | 18 | 2 | 48 | 0 | - | - | |
| Popplewell | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |