| a16661 | |
| Venue | Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood on 5th June 2005 (45-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Middlesex won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Essex won by 1 wicket |
| Points | Middlesex 0; Essex 4 |
| Umpires | NGC Cowley, MJ Harris |
| Scorers | AE Choat (Essex), DK Shelley (Middlesex) |
| Middlesex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| PN Weekes | b GW Flower | 66 | 103 | 103 | 7 | 1 | 64.08 |
| ET Smith | run out | 41 | 56 | 80 | 6 | - | 73.21 |
| IK Pathan | c Foster b Middlebrook | 3 | 6 | 4 | - | - | 50.00 |
| OA Shah | c Tudor b Gough | 8 | 17 | 25 | - | - | 47.06 |
| EC Joyce | c Tudor b GW Flower | 10 | 18 | 16 | - | - | 55.56 |
| SB Styris | b Gough | 71 | 43 | 46 | 3 | 7 | 165.12 |
| JWM Dalrymple | not out | 23 | 26 | 40 | 2 | - | 88.46 |
| *BL Hutton | not out | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 200.00 |
| +BJM Scott | did not bat | ||||||
| MM Betts | did not bat | ||||||
| A Richardson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 4 lb, 14 w) | 19 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 45 overs) | 243 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-101 (Smith), 2-109 (Pathan), 3-131 (Weekes), 4-137 (Shah), 5-144 (Joyce), 6-241 (Styris) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Gough | 9 | 1 | 37 | 2 | 1 | - | 27.00 | 4.11 |
| Tudor | 5 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 7.20 |
| Adams | 7 | 0 | 46 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.57 |
| Bopara | 4 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 4.50 |
| Middlebrook | 9 | 1 | 33 | 1 | 1 | - | 54.00 | 3.67 |
| GW Flower | 9 | 0 | 38 | 2 | 1 | - | 27.00 | 4.22 |
| Cook | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.00 |
| ten Doeschate | 1 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 25.00 |
| Essex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| WI Jefferson | c Scott b Pathan | 15 | 18 | 22 | 1 | - | 83.33 |
| AN Cook | lbw b Dalrymple | 29 | 39 | 69 | 4 | - | 74.36 |
| RS Bopara | c Scott b Pathan | 4 | 18 | 16 | 1 | - | 22.22 |
| GW Flower | c and b Weekes | 12 | 19 | 13 | 2 | - | 63.16 |
| A Flower | c Hutton b Styris | 46 | 59 | 84 | 2 | - | 77.97 |
| JD Middlebrook | run out | 34 | 32 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 106.25 |
| +JS Foster | b Richardson | 6 | 13 | 11 | - | - | 46.15 |
| RN ten Doeschate | not out | 51 | 41 | 52 | 7 | 1 | 124.39 |
| AJ Tudor | lbw b Styris | 7 | 10 | 7 | 1 | - | 70.00 |
| AR Adams | c Smith b Pathan | 13 | 13 | 13 | 1 | - | 100.00 |
| *D Gough | not out | 4 | 7 | 7 | - | - | 57.14 |
| Extras | (1 b, 8 lb, 9 w, 6 pen) | 24 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, 44.4 overs) | 245 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-31 (Jefferson), 2-49 (Bopara), 3-63 (GW Flower), 4-75 (Cook), 5-137 (Middlebrook), 6-152 (Foster), 7-182 (A Flower), 8-195 (Tudor), 9-219 (Adams) | |||||||
| Middlesex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pathan | 8.4 | 0 | 42 | 3 | 3 | - | 17.33 | 4.85 |
| Richardson | 9 | 0 | 49 | 1 | 1 | - | 54.00 | 5.44 |
| Betts | 8 | 1 | 43 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.38 |
| Weekes | 5 | 0 | 19 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.80 |
| Dalrymple | 5 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 4 | - | 30.00 | 6.60 |
| Styris | 9 | 0 | 44 | 2 | 1 | - | 27.00 | 4.89 |