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| Venue | Castle Park Cricket Ground, Colchester on 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th August 2005 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Somerset won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Somerset won by 5 wickets |
| Points | Essex 5 (Batting 5); Somerset 16 (Bowling 2) |
| Umpires | MJ Harris, VA Holder |
| Scorers | AE Choat (Essex), GA Stickley (Somerset) |
| Close of play day 1 | Essex (1) 6/1 (Jefferson 4*, GW Flower 0*; 3 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | Essex (1) 220/5 (Irani 43*, Foster 20*; 73.4 overs) |
| Close of play day 3 | Somerset (1) 112/2 (Francis 31*, Hildreth 76*; 35 overs) |
| Essex first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WI Jefferson | b Blackwell | 93 | 110 | 17 | 1 | ||
| AN Cook | lbw b Woodman | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| GW Flower | c Gazzard b Langeveldt | 5 | 36 | 1 | - | ||
| RS Bopara | b Blackwell | 42 | 139 | 165 | 6 | - | |
| A Flower | lbw b Munday | 14 | 58 | 77 | 1 | - | |
| *RC Irani | run out | 86 | 150 | 220 | 9 | 4 | |
| +JS Foster | not out | 107 | 196 | 292 | 13 | 1 | |
| JD Middlebrook | not out | 42 | 71 | 75 | 6 | - | |
| GR Napier | did not bat | ||||||
| Danish Kaneria | did not bat | ||||||
| A Nel | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 2 lb, 8 nb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, declared, 126.1 overs) | 400 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Cook), 2-33 (GW Flower), 3-124 (Jefferson), 4-156 (A Flower), 5-158 (Bopara), 6-315 (Irani) | |||||||
| Somerset bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Langeveldt | 33 | 12 | 71 | 1 | - | 3 | |
| Woodman | 24 | 8 | 78 | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Parsons | 16.1 | 4 | 56 | 0 | - | - | |
| Blackwell | 38 | 10 | 105 | 2 | - | - | |
| Munday | 14 | 0 | 77 | 1 | - | - | |
| Hildreth | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - | |
| Somerset first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MJ Wood | b Nel | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| JD Francis | not out | 31 | 93 | 127 | 4 | - | |
| AV Suppiah | lbw b Nel | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | |
| JC Hildreth | not out | 76 | 116 | 122 | 12 | - | |
| KA Parsons | did not bat | ||||||
| *ID Blackwell | did not bat | ||||||
| WJ Durston | did not bat | ||||||
| +CM Gazzard | did not bat | ||||||
| CK Langeveldt | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ Woodman | did not bat | ||||||
| MK Munday | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 4 nb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, declared, 35 overs) | 112 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Wood), 2-0 (Suppiah) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Nel | 6 | 2 | 12 | 2 | - | - | |
| Napier | 6 | 3 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Danish Kaneria | 14 | 2 | 46 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bopara | 4 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | 2 | |
| Middlebrook | 5 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Essex second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WI Jefferson | did not bat | ||||||
| AN Cook | did not bat | ||||||
| GW Flower | did not bat | ||||||
| RS Bopara | did not bat | ||||||
| A Flower | did not bat | ||||||
| *RC Irani | did not bat | ||||||
| +JS Foster | did not bat | ||||||
| JD Middlebrook | did not bat | ||||||
| GR Napier | did not bat | ||||||
| Danish Kaneria | did not bat | ||||||
| A Nel | did not bat | ||||||
| Innings Forfeited | |||||||
| Somerset second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MJ Wood | lbw b Nel | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | - | |
| JD Francis | c Nel b Danish Kaneria | 51 | 103 | 154 | 8 | - | |
| AV Suppiah | lbw b Bopara | 29 | 27 | 41 | 5 | - | |
| JC Hildreth | not out | 125 | 186 | 211 | 16 | 2 | |
| WJ Durston | c Foster b Nel | 0 | 4 | 4 | - | - | |
| *ID Blackwell | c Cook b GW Flower | 59 | 63 | 77 | 7 | 3 | |
| KA Parsons | not out | 12 | 13 | 18 | 2 | - | |
| +CM Gazzard | did not bat | ||||||
| CK Langeveldt | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ Woodman | did not bat | ||||||
| MK Munday | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 5 lb, 4 nb, 2 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 66.1 overs) | 292 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Wood), 2-49 (Suppiah), 3-147 (Francis), 4-147 (Durston), 5-256 (Blackwell) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Nel | 17 | 1 | 76 | 2 | - | - | |
| Napier | 6 | 1 | 21 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bopara | 10 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Danish Kaneria | 24 | 4 | 80 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Middlebrook | 7.1 | 0 | 39 | 0 | - | - | |
| GW Flower | 2 | 0 | 26 | 1 | - | - | |