| a17601 | |
| Venue | The Ford County Ground, Chelmsford on 7th September 2006 (40-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Essex won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Essex won by 31 runs |
| Points | Essex 2; Lancashire 0 |
| Umpires | GI Burgess, PJ Hartley |
| TV umpire | B Dudleston |
| Scorers | AE Choat (Essex), A West (Lancashire) |
| Player of the Match | JS Foster |
| Essex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ML Pettini | c Croft b Hogg | 5 | 6 | 6 | 1 | - | 83.33 |
| *RC Irani | c Kartik b Cork | 0 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 0.00 |
| AJ Bichel | c Sutton b Kartik | 41 | 52 | 65 | 2 | 2 | 78.85 |
| RS Bopara | b Kartik | 22 | 35 | 59 | 2 | - | 62.86 |
| A Flower | c Chilton b Marshall | 33 | 42 | 45 | 2 | - | 78.57 |
| +JS Foster | run out | 67 | 62 | 81 | 3 | 2 | 108.06 |
| RN ten Doeschate | not out | 37 | 35 | 44 | 2 | - | 105.71 |
| JD Middlebrook | b Chapple | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | 166.67 |
| GR Napier | not out | 7 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | 233.33 |
| TJ Phillips | did not bat | ||||||
| GW Flower | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (14 lb, 2 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 40 overs) | 233 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5 (Irani), 2-5 (Pettini), 3-76 (Bopara), 4-79 (Bichel), 5-142 (A Flower), 6-218 (Foster), 7-225 (Middlebrook) | |||||||
| Lancashire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Cork | 8 | 1 | 42 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 5.25 |
| Hogg | 5 | 1 | 22 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.40 |
| Chapple | 8 | 0 | 50 | 1 | 1 | - | 48.00 | 6.25 |
| Croft | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - | - | 10.00 |
| Kartik | 8 | 0 | 37 | 2 | 1 | - | 24.00 | 4.62 |
| Marshall | 8 | 0 | 39 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 4.88 |
| Astle | 2 | 0 | 19 | 0 | - | - | - | 9.50 |
| Lancashire innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| MB Loye | c Bopara b Phillips | 71 | 63 | 63 | 9 | 2 | 112.70 |
| NJ Astle | c Foster b Bichel | 1 | 3 | 7 | - | - | 33.33 |
| DG Cork | c and b Phillips | 24 | 22 | 39 | 4 | - | 109.09 |
| *MJ Chilton | st Foster b Phillips | 43 | 55 | 72 | 2 | - | 78.18 |
| PJ Horton | st Foster b Phillips | 2 | 5 | 6 | - | - | 40.00 |
| SJ Croft | c Foster b Bichel | 19 | 39 | 32 | 2 | - | 48.72 |
| +LD Sutton | lbw b Bopara | 1 | 4 | 5 | - | - | 25.00 |
| G Chapple | run out | 11 | 13 | 20 | 1 | - | 84.62 |
| KW Hogg | c and b Phillips | 2 | 6 | 4 | - | - | 33.33 |
| SJ Marshall | b Bichel | 9 | 9 | 13 | 1 | - | 100.00 |
| M Kartik | not out | 10 | 7 | 8 | - | 1 | 142.86 |
| Extras | (3 lb, 2 nb, 4 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 37.3 overs) | 202 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-8 (Astle), 2-88 (Cork), 3-105 (Loye), 4-112 (Horton), 5-154 (Croft), 6-159 (Sutton), 7-175 (Chilton), 8-179 (Hogg), 9-186 (Chapple), 10-202 (Marshall, 37.3 ov) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Napier | 4 | 0 | 33 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 8.25 |
| Bichel | 6.3 | 0 | 33 | 3 | - | - | 13.00 | 5.08 |
| Bopara | 3 | 0 | 29 | 1 | - | - | 18.00 | 9.67 |
| Middlebrook | 8 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.25 |
| Phillips | 8 | 0 | 34 | 5 | 2 | - | 9.60 | 4.25 |
| GW Flower | 8 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 3.50 |