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| Venue | FP Fenner's Ground, Cambridge on 24th, 25th August 1949 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Cambridgeshire won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Cambridgeshire 5; Essex Second XI 3 |
| Umpires | WE Brown, SA Hipple |
| Scorers | W Cockel, SE Miles |
| Close of play day 1 |
| Essex Second XI first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HP Crabtree | b Smith | 19 | |||||
| GHS West | run out | 27 | |||||
| HA Faragher | c Collins b Smith | 4 | |||||
| C Griffiths | b Royston | 0 | |||||
| FS Unwin | c Collins b Hoyles | 4 | |||||
| WJ Dines | c Collins b Hoyles | 18 | |||||
| EAW Stanley | c Hoyles b White | 50 | |||||
| KC Preston | c Collins b Taylor | 8 | |||||
| JA Hughes | b Taylor | 0 | |||||
| B Taylor | b Royston | 1 | |||||
| KE Sparkes | not out | 3 | |||||
| Extras | (6 b, 3 lb, 5 nb, 1 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 81.5 overs) | 149 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-47 (Crabtree), 2-55 (West), 3-55 (Griffiths), 4-62 (Faragher), 5-64 (Unwin), 6-94 (Dines), 7-111 (Preston), 8-111 (Hughes), 9-114 (Taylor), 10-149 (Stanley, 81.5 ov) | |||||||
| Cambridgeshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Smith | 21 | 7 | 36 | 2 | - | - | |
| Hoyles | 18 | 7 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| Taylor | 28 | 13 | 42 | 2 | - | - | |
| Royston | 13 | 4 | 21 | 2 | - | - | |
| White | 1.5 | 0 | 12 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cambridgeshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CE Coote | b Preston | 75 | 167 | 11 | - | ||
| MA Crouch | not out | 192 | 290 | 24 | - | ||
| WN White | b Preston | 32 | 2 | - | |||
| RA Gautrey | b Preston | 0 | - | - | |||
| RA Lyttleton | b Hughes | 38 | 3 | 1 | |||
| CJ Smith | not out | 23 | 2 | - | |||
| GT Collins | did not bat | ||||||
| SRC Royston | did not bat | ||||||
| J Hoyles | did not bat | ||||||
| RA Taylor | did not bat | ||||||
| JD Cornwell | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (8 b, 1 lb, 1 nb) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, declared, 99 overs) | 370 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-171 (Coote), 2-235 (White), 3-244 (Gautrey), 4-319 (Lyttleton) | |||||||
| Essex Second XI bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Preston | 24 | 1 | 86 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| Crabtree | 11 | 0 | 46 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dines | 26 | 9 | 68 | 0 | - | 1 | |
| Hughes | 20 | 2 | 88 | 1 | - | - | |
| Sparkes | 11 | 1 | 38 | 0 | - | - | |
| Unwin | 4 | 1 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
| Griffiths | 3 | 0 | 22 | 0 | - | - | |
| Essex Second XI second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HP Crabtree | b Hoyles | 9 | 2 | - | |||
| GHS West | st Collins b White | 90 | 203 | 10 | - | ||
| EAW Stanley | c Hoyles b White | 76 | 9 | - | |||
| C Griffiths | st Collins b White | 4 | - | - | |||
| HA Faragher | not out | 21 | 2 | - | |||
| WJ Dines | b White | 6 | 1 | - | |||
| FS Unwin | not out | 3 | - | - | |||
| KC Preston | did not bat | ||||||
| JA Hughes | did not bat | ||||||
| B Taylor | did not bat | ||||||
| KE Sparkes | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (13 b, 1 lb, 1 nb) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 88 overs) | 224 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-10 (Crabtree), 2-151 (Stanley), 3-158 (Griffiths), 4-211 (West), 5-217 (Dines) | |||||||
| Cambridgeshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Smith | 11 | 5 | 24 | 0 | - | - | |
| Hoyles | 11 | 1 | 27 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| Taylor | 14 | 5 | 19 | 0 | - | - | |
| Royston | 14 | 5 | 22 | 0 | - | - | |
| White | 31 | 5 | 88 | 4 | - | - | |
| Crouch | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Coote | 4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |