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| Venue | Boughton Hall Avenue, Chester on 6th, 7th August 1978 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Cheshire won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn (single innings match) |
| Points | Cheshire 2; Durham 2 |
| Umpires | WA Cooke, JE Lawton |
| Scorers | CM Davis (Cheshire), AD Reed (Durham) |
| Close of play day 1 | No play |
| Durham innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| PW Romaines | c Hodson b Gemmell | 10 | 21 | 1 | - | ||
| SR Atkinson | c Gemmell b O'Brien | 15 | 62 | - | - | ||
| Wasim Raja | c Hodson b Robinson | 0 | 2 | - | - | ||
| S Greensword | c Hardstaff b Robinson | 83 | 144 | 8 | 1 | ||
| NA Riddell | c Bailey b Robinson | 45 | 93 | 7 | - | ||
| PJ Kippax | not out | 6 | 11 | - | - | ||
| DD Parsana | not out | 2 | 8 | - | - | ||
| C Thomas | did not bat | ||||||
| +RAD Mercer | did not bat | ||||||
| *BR Lander | did not bat | ||||||
| IA Wishart | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 w) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, declared, 178 minutes, 50 overs) | 162 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-13, 2-14, 3-44, 4-152, 5-158 | |||||||
| Cheshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Robinson | 12 | 3 | 36 | 3 | 1 | - | |
| Gemmell | 18 | 3 | 49 | 1 | - | - | |
| O'Brien | 8 | 2 | 25 | 1 | - | - | |
| Sutton | 4 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bailey | 8 | 1 | 40 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cheshire innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| D Bailey | b Wishart | 8 | 10 | 1 | - | ||
| *JA Sutton | c Mercer b Greensword | 37 | 80 | 4 | 1 | ||
| RMO Cooke | c Parsana b Greensword | 30 | 108 | 2 | 1 | ||
| NT O'Brien | c Greensword b Kippax | 8 | 23 | - | - | ||
| SL Wood | b Kippax | 14 | 35 | 2 | - | ||
| IJ Gemmell | c Wishart b Greensword | 2 | 3 | - | - | ||
| ND Barker | b Kippax | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| JRA Cragg | not out | 0 | 21 | - | - | ||
| GC Hardstaff | not out | 0 | 6 | - | - | ||
| +T Hodson | did not bat | ||||||
| PA Robinson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 3 lb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 147 minutes, 46 overs) | 106 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-8, 2-64, 3-85, 4-94, 5-97, 6-97, 7-106 | |||||||
| Durham bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wishart | 9 | 3 | 17 | 1 | - | - | |
| Lander | 5 | 1 | 24 | 0 | - | - | |
| Greensword | 15 | 5 | 43 | 3 | - | - | |
| Kippax | 14 | 8 | 14 | 3 | - | - | |
| Parsana | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |