| a14304 | |
| Venue | County Ground, Chelmsford on 24th May 2002 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Essex won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Essex won by 5 wickets |
| Umpires | MR Benson, P Willey |
| TV umpire | B Dudleston |
| Player of the Match | RC Irani |
| Middlesex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *AJ Strauss | c Flower b Irani | 10 | 21 | 16 | 2 | - | 47.62 |
| SG Koenig | c Clarke b Irani | 116 | 115 | 165 | 9 | 2 | 100.87 |
| Abdul Razzaq | lbw b Dakin | 8 | 32 | 33 | 1 | - | 25.00 |
| OA Shah | c Grayson b Dakin | 20 | 32 | 33 | 2 | - | 62.50 |
| EC Joyce | run out | 10 | 12 | 11 | 1 | - | 83.33 |
| PN Weekes | not out | 76 | 74 | 80 | 6 | - | 102.70 |
| SJ Cook | not out | 39 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 260.00 |
| BL Hutton | did not bat | ||||||
| +DC Nash | did not bat | ||||||
| AW Laraman | did not bat | ||||||
| TF Bloomfield | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 2 nb, 9 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 291 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11 (Strauss), 2-38 (Abdul Razzaq), 3-78 (Shah), 4-99 (Joyce), 5-234 (Koenig) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Irani | 10 | 1 | 47 | 2 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 4.70 |
| Cowan | 10 | 3 | 39 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 3.90 |
| Dakin | 10 | 1 | 51 | 2 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 5.10 |
| Stephenson | 5 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 9.00 |
| Grayson | 6 | 1 | 44 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.33 |
| Middlebrook | 4 | 0 | 27 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.75 |
| Clarke | 5 | 0 | 37 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 7.40 |
| Essex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| N Hussain | b Abdul Razzaq | 96 | 99 | 192 | 12 | 1 | 96.97 |
| DDJ Robinson | b Cook | 17 | 21 | 23 | 3 | - | 80.95 |
| JM Dakin | lbw b Laraman | 4 | 8 | 8 | - | - | 50.00 |
| AP Cowan | c Nash b Cook | 1 | 10 | 45 | - | - | 10.00 |
| +A Flower | lbw b Weekes | 45 | 48 | 53 | 6 | - | 93.75 |
| *RC Irani | not out | 86 | 73 | 87 | 3 | 5 | 117.81 |
| A Habib | not out | 29 | 31 | 38 | 1 | - | 93.55 |
| JP Stephenson | did not bat | ||||||
| AP Grayson | did not bat | ||||||
| JD Middlebrook | did not bat | ||||||
| AJ Clarke | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (13 lb, 2 nb, 2 w) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 48.1 overs) | 295 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-42 (Robinson), 2-51 (Dakin), 3-68 (Cowan), 4-142 (Flower), 5-228 (Hussain) | |||||||
| Middlesex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Abdul Razzaq | 10 | 0 | 58 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 60.00 | 5.80 |
| Cook | 10 | 0 | 48 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.80 |
| Laraman | 10 | 2 | 59 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 5.90 |
| Hutton | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 8.00 |
| Bloomfield | 7.1 | 1 | 51 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.12 |
| Weekes | 9 | 0 | 50 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 5.56 |