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| Venue | Southill Park, Southill on 22nd, 23rd July 1978 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Buckinghamshire won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Bedfordshire 1; Buckinghamshire 3 |
| Umpires | MA Cleaver, CL Head |
| Scorers | AJ Pearce (Bedfordshire), HE Perrin (Buckinghamshire) |
| Close of play day 1 | Buckinghamshire (2) 23/2 (Jones 3*; 12.4 overs) |
| Buckinghamshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JB Turner | c and b Abeynaike | 32 | 5 | - | |||
| GA Jones | lbw b Clarke | 11 | 2 | - | |||
| IB Feasey | c Jones b Abeynaike | 30 | 3 | - | |||
| RE Hayward | b Jones | 38 | 7 | - | |||
| DE Smith | st August b Abeynaike | 46 | 7 | 1 | |||
| JKS Edwards | not out | 14 | 1 | - | |||
| *+BW Poll | not out | 7 | - | - | |||
| RR Bailey | did not bat | ||||||
| RE Bond | did not bat | ||||||
| PA Gooch | did not bat | ||||||
| AW Lyon | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 b, 13 lb, 5 nb) | 21 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, declared, 54.5 overs) | 199 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24 (Jones), 2-81 (Turner), 3-97 (Feasey), 4-161 (Hayward), 5-177 (Smith) | |||||||
| Bedfordshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Clarke | 4.5 | 1 | 14 | 1 | - | - | |
| Robinson | 10 | 4 | 22 | 0 | - | - | |
| Jones | 17 | 3 | 61 | 1 | - | - | |
| Abeynaike | 21 | 4 | 70 | 3 | - | - | |
| Hartup | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bedfordshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DM Daniels | c Turner b Lyon | 52 | 7 | - | |||
| TJ Machin | c Turner b Bailey | 17 | 3 | - | |||
| IG Peck | b Bond | 40 | 7 | - | |||
| DW Jarrett | c Poll b Gooch | 0 | - | - | |||
| ME Gear | c Poll b Gooch | 4 | 1 | - | |||
| I Hartup | c Poll b Gooch | 9 | 2 | - | |||
| *KV Jones | c Smith b Bailey | 29 | 5 | - | |||
| RG Abeynaike | b Bond | 25 | 3 | - | |||
| +PGM August | not out | 5 | - | - | |||
| MOC Robinson | b Bond | 0 | - | - | |||
| DP Clarke | not out | 1 | - | - | |||
| Extras | (9 lb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 55 overs) | 191 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-30 (Machin), 2-87 (Daniels), 3-89 (Jarrett), 4-93 (Gear), 5-111 (Hartup), 6-154 (Jones), 7-158 (Peck), 8-190 (Abeynaike), 9-190 (Robinson) | |||||||
| Buckinghamshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Bond | 13 | 0 | 56 | 3 | - | - | |
| Bailey | 15 | 2 | 42 | 2 | - | - | |
| Gooch | 15 | 5 | 54 | 3 | - | - | |
| Lyon | 12 | 4 | 30 | 1 | - | - | |
| Buckinghamshire second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JB Turner | b Abeynaike | 10 | 2 | - | |||
| GA Jones | not out | 3 | - | - | |||
| RR Bailey | run out | 5 | - | - | |||
| IB Feasey | did not bat | ||||||
| RE Hayward | did not bat | ||||||
| DE Smith | did not bat | ||||||
| JKS Edwards | did not bat | ||||||
| *+BW Poll | did not bat | ||||||
| RE Bond | did not bat | ||||||
| PA Gooch | did not bat | ||||||
| AW Lyon | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 3 nb) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 12.4 overs) | 23 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-18 (Turner), 2-23 (Bailey, 12.4 ov) | |||||||
| Bedfordshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Robinson | 5 | 2 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Jones | 4.4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |
| Abeynaike | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | - | |