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| Venue | Castle Park Cricket Ground, Colchester on 20th, 21st, 22nd August 2003 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sussex won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sussex won by an innings and 120 runs |
| Points | Essex 5 (Batting 2, Bowling 3); Sussex 22 (Batting 5, Bowling 3) |
| Umpires | A Clarkson, NJ Llong |
| Scorers | AE Choat (Essex), JF Hartridge (Sussex) |
| Close of play day 1 | Sussex (1) 521/8 (Prior 104*, Lewry 37*; 104 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | Essex (1) 23/0 (Robinson 11*, Jefferson 6*; 7 overs) |
| Sussex first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| RR Montgomerie | b Palladino | 97 | 133 | 169 | 15 | - | |
| MW Goodwin | b Mohammad Akram | 210 | 270 | 362 | 30 | 2 | |
| PA Cottey | run out | 23 | 47 | 53 | 3 | - | |
| *CJ Adams | b Mohammad Akram | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| +TR Ambrose | c Flower b Mohammad Akram | 4 | 20 | 18 | - | - | |
| RSC Martin-Jenkins | c Foster b Middlebrook | 10 | 17 | 17 | 1 | - | |
| MJ Prior | not out | 153 | 134 | 207 | 19 | 3 | |
| MJG Davis | b Mohammad Akram | 8 | 16 | 18 | 1 | - | |
| Mushtaq Ahmed | b Mohammad Akram | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | |
| JD Lewry | c sub b Middlebrook | 70 | 65 | 76 | 12 | 1 | |
| BV Taylor | b Dakin | 3 | 19 | 19 | - | - | |
| Extras | (9 lb, 20 nb, 5 pen) | 34 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 119 overs) | 612 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-202 (Montgomerie), 2-270 (Cottey), 3-270 (Adams), 4-303 (Ambrose), 5-325 (Martin-Jenkins), 6-438 (Goodwin), 7-452 (Davis), 8-454 (Mushtaq Ahmed), 9-595 (Lewry), 10-612 (Taylor, 119 ov) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Mohammad Akram | 29 | 2 | 130 | 5 | - | 5 | |
| Dakin | 20 | 1 | 120 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| Napier | 24 | 5 | 149 | 0 | - | 2 | |
| Palladino | 16 | 6 | 40 | 1 | - | - | |
| Middlebrook | 26 | 1 | 126 | 2 | - | - | |
| Robinson | 4 | 0 | 33 | 0 | - | 1 | |
| Essex first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DDJ Robinson | c Cottey b Mushtaq Ahmed | 64 | 116 | 133 | 9 | - | |
| WI Jefferson | c Goodwin b Mushtaq Ahmed | 55 | 64 | 82 | 12 | - | |
| A Flower | c Ambrose b Lewry | 50 | 101 | 136 | 8 | - | |
| A Habib | lbw b Mushtaq Ahmed | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| *RC Irani | c Adams b Taylor | 3 | 17 | 26 | - | - | |
| +JS Foster | c Montgomerie b Davis | 31 | 57 | 65 | 4 | - | |
| JM Dakin | lbw b Davis | 6 | 14 | 18 | 1 | - | |
| JD Middlebrook | c Lewry b Martin-Jenkins | 33 | 49 | 63 | 6 | - | |
| GR Napier | c Prior b Mushtaq Ahmed | 34 | 47 | 49 | 3 | 1 | |
| Mohammad Akram | not out | 0 | 2 | 4 | - | - | |
| AP Palladino | absent hurt | ||||||
| Extras | (5 lb, 2 nb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 77.5 overs) | 283 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-101 (Jefferson), 2-144 (Robinson), 3-144 (Habib), 4-163 (Irani), 5-208 (Flower), 6-214 (Foster), 7-219 (Dakin), 8-281 (Napier), 9-283 (Middlebrook, 77.5 ov) | |||||||
| Sussex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lewry | 12 | 4 | 46 | 1 | - | - | |
| Taylor | 17 | 3 | 52 | 1 | - | - | |
| Mushtaq Ahmed | 25 | 2 | 87 | 4 | - | - | |
| Martin-Jenkins | 11.5 | 2 | 32 | 1 | - | - | |
| Davis | 12 | 0 | 61 | 2 | - | 1 | |
| Essex second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DDJ Robinson | run out | 12 | 19 | 30 | 2 | - | |
| WI Jefferson | c and b Martin-Jenkins | 59 | 120 | 144 | 9 | 1 | |
| A Flower | c Prior b Mushtaq Ahmed | 32 | 102 | 140 | 3 | - | |
| A Habib | b Mushtaq Ahmed | 11 | 36 | 42 | 2 | - | |
| *RC Irani | c Ambrose b Taylor | 38 | 49 | 59 | 5 | 1 | |
| +JS Foster | lbw b Mushtaq Ahmed | 3 | 26 | 36 | - | - | |
| JM Dakin | c Goodwin b Taylor | 7 | 20 | 38 | 1 | - | |
| JD Middlebrook | c Davis b Taylor | 5 | 15 | 14 | 1 | - | |
| GR Napier | not out | 21 | 20 | 23 | 2 | 2 | |
| Mohammad Akram | lbw b Taylor | 10 | 7 | 8 | 2 | - | |
| AP Palladino | absent hurt | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 3 lb, 6 nb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 68.3 overs) | 209 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24 (Robinson), 2-109 (Jefferson), 3-123 (Flower), 4-130 (Habib), 5-164 (Foster), 6-164 (Irani), 7-172 (Middlebrook), 8-185 (Dakin), 9-209 (Mohammad Akram, 68.3 ov) | |||||||
| Sussex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Taylor | 16.3 | 6 | 50 | 4 | - | 3 | |
| Lewry | 8 | 1 | 28 | 0 | - | - | |
| Mushtaq Ahmed | 28 | 7 | 83 | 3 | - | - | |
| Davis | 4 | 1 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Martin-Jenkins | 12 | 4 | 30 | 1 | - | - | |