| a17423 | |
| Venue | The Ford County Ground, Chelmsford on 7th May 2006 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Essex won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Essex won by 8 wickets |
| Points | Essex 2; Ireland 0 |
| Umpires | B Leadbeater, JF Steele |
| Scorers | AE Choat (Essex), S Downes (Ireland) |
| Ireland innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| DI Joyce | lbw b Palladino | 16 | 16 | 11 | 3 | - | 100.00 |
| +JP Bray | c Cook b Palladino | 3 | 9 | 22 | - | - | 33.33 |
| D Langford-Smith | c GW Flower b Adams | 1 | 4 | 4 | - | - | 25.00 |
| EJG Morgan | c A Flower b ten Doeschate | 34 | 64 | 83 | 4 | - | 53.12 |
| AC Botha | b Middlebrook | 64 | 100 | 119 | 5 | - | 64.00 |
| Shahid Afridi | c Napier b ten Doeschate | 7 | 4 | 6 | - | 1 | 175.00 |
| PG Gillespie | c Cook b Middlebrook | 7 | 13 | 12 | - | - | 53.85 |
| WK McCallan | b ten Doeschate | 20 | 23 | 33 | 1 | - | 86.96 |
| JF Mooney | c Irani b ten Doeschate | 14 | 16 | 20 | 1 | - | 87.50 |
| Saqlain Mushtaq | run out | 13 | 10 | 11 | 2 | - | 130.00 |
| *DT Johnston | not out | 0 | 0 | 4 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (3 lb, 2 nb, 8 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 43 overs) | 192 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-17 (Joyce), 2-20 (Langford-Smith), 3-20 (Bray), 4-99 (Morgan), 5-107 (Shahid Afridi), 6-122 (Gillespie), 7-149 (Botha), 8-176 (McCallan), 9-182 (Mooney), 10-192 (Saqlain Mushtaq, 43 ov) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Adams | 8 | 4 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 48.00 | 2.75 |
| Palladino | 7 | 1 | 21 | 2 | 1 | - | 21.00 | 3.00 |
| Napier | 5 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.00 |
| Bopara | 5 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.20 |
| ten Doeschate | 9 | 0 | 49 | 4 | 2 | - | 13.50 | 5.44 |
| Middlebrook | 9 | 0 | 46 | 2 | 2 | - | 27.00 | 5.11 |
| Essex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AN Cook | not out | 91 | 106 | 131 | 12 | - | 85.85 |
| *RC Irani | b Mooney | 0 | 6 | 7 | - | - | 0.00 |
| GW Flower | b Botha | 61 | 92 | 104 | 6 | 1 | 66.30 |
| A Flower | not out | 15 | 20 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 75.00 |
| RS Bopara | did not bat | ||||||
| JD Middlebrook | did not bat | ||||||
| +JS Foster | did not bat | ||||||
| RN ten Doeschate | did not bat | ||||||
| GR Napier | did not bat | ||||||
| AR Adams | did not bat | ||||||
| AP Palladino | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (13 lb, 4 nb, 9 w) | 26 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 131 minutes, 37 overs) | 193 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Irani), 2-163 (GW Flower) | |||||||
| Ireland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Johnston | 7 | 1 | 36 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.14 |
| Mooney | 5 | 1 | 16 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.20 |
| Langford-Smith | 5 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 5.60 |
| Botha | 6 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 1 | - | 36.00 | 4.17 |
| Shahid Afridi | 7 | 1 | 34 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | 4.86 |
| Saqlain Mushtaq | 5 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 4.20 |
| McCallan | 2 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | - | 10.00 |