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| Venue | The Essex County Ground, Chelmsford on 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th April 2013 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Essex won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Essex 8 (Batting 4, Bowling 1); Gloucestershire 9 (Batting 4, Bowling 2) |
| Umpires | RK Illingworth, MJ Saggers |
| Scorers | AJ Bull (Gloucestershire), AE Choat (Essex) |
| Close of play day 1 | Gloucestershire (1) 300/3 (Housego 124*, Marshall 120*; 96 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | Essex (1) 30/2 (Westley 19*, Bopara 3*; 7.1 overs) |
| Close of play day 3 | Essex (1) 177/3 (Westley 82*, Pettini 18*; 51 overs) |
| Gloucestershire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *M Klinger | c Foster b Masters | 18 | 28 | 47 | 1 | - | |
| CDJ Dent | c Foster b Masters | 8 | 25 | 26 | - | - | |
| DM Housego | lbw b Bopara | 150 | 341 | 434 | 18 | - | |
| APR Gidman | lbw b Bopara | 12 | 50 | 72 | 2 | - | |
| HJH Marshall | c Quiney b Mills | 149 | 235 | 308 | 19 | 1 | |
| BAC Howell | not out | 37 | 52 | 57 | 4 | - | |
| WRS Gidman | not out | 10 | 17 | 24 | 1 | - | |
| +CL Herring | did not bat | ||||||
| JK Fuller | did not bat | ||||||
| DA Payne | did not bat | ||||||
| LC Norwell | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (8 b, 7 lb, 8 nb, 2 w) | 25 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, declared, 124 overs) | 409 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-17 (Dent, 6.3 ov), 2-34 (Klinger, 10.6 ov), 3-71 (APR Gidman, 29.3 ov), 4-351 (Marshall, 107.3 ov), 5-378 (Housego, 115.4 ov) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Masters | 27 | 7 | 65 | 2 | - | 4 | |
| Mills | 21 | 5 | 63 | 1 | - | - | |
| Chambers | 22 | 1 | 89 | 0 | - | - | |
| Napier | 25 | 5 | 79 | 0 | 1 | - | |
| Bopara | 16 | 2 | 56 | 2 | 1 | - | |
| Westley | 13 | 2 | 42 | 0 | - | - | |
| Essex first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| T Westley | c Herring b WRS Gidman | 163 | 284 | 369 | 23 | - | |
| RJ Quiney | b Fuller | 4 | 6 | 9 | 1 | - | |
| BT Foakes | c Dent b Fuller | 4 | 13 | 14 | - | - | |
| RS Bopara | lbw b Howell | 64 | 115 | 136 | 7 | - | |
| ML Pettini | lbw b Norwell | 35 | 77 | 107 | 4 | - | |
| *+JS Foster | c Fuller b Howell | 51 | 92 | 127 | 6 | - | |
| GM Smith | not out | 19 | 27 | 33 | 3 | - | |
| GR Napier | not out | 0 | 0 | 3 | - | - | |
| DD Masters | did not bat | ||||||
| MA Chambers | did not bat | ||||||
| TS Mills | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 4 lb, 4 nb, 1 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 102 overs) | 353 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11 (Quiney, 2.3 ov), 2-23 (Foakes, 6.1 ov), 3-139 (Bopara, 41.4 ov), 4-234 (Pettini, 70.1 ov), 5-307 (Westley, 94.6 ov), 6-349 (Foster, 101.2 ov) | |||||||
| Gloucestershire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Fuller | 26 | 4 | 77 | 2 | - | 1 | |
| WRS Gidman | 30 | 4 | 88 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Payne | 19 | 3 | 79 | 0 | - | 1 | |
| Norwell | 11 | 2 | 57 | 1 | - | - | |
| Howell | 15 | 6 | 42 | 2 | - | - | |
| APR Gidman | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - | |