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| Venue | Highfield, Leek on 23rd, 24th August 1998 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Bedfordshire won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Staffordshire 5; Bedfordshire 5 |
| Umpires | G Lowden, TG Wilson |
| Scorers | P Finlay (Bedfordshire), RG McDuell (Staffordshire) |
| Close of play day 1 | No play |
| Staffordshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *SJ Dean | c Larkins b Fantham | 35 | 29 | 32 | 6 | - | |
| CP Lowndes | run out | 17 | 30 | 42 | 3 | - | |
| L Potter | c Hoare b Trott | 99 | 103 | 102 | 12 | 3 | |
| RJ Mills | c Mercer b Roberts | 45 | 58 | 64 | 2 | 4 | |
| MV Steele | c Hoare b Trott | 8 | 17 | 19 | - | - | |
| RP Harvey | c Hoare b Roberts | 44 | 47 | 1 | 1 | ||
| DR Womble | b Trott | 1 | 11 | 6 | - | - | |
| +MI Humphries | c Panesar b Roberts | 24 | 26 | - | - | ||
| DJ Brock | not out | 2 | 10 | - | - | ||
| RM Jervis | not out | 0 | 5 | - | - | ||
| SD Horsfall | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 5 lb, 4 nb, 4 w) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 56 overs) | 292 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-56 (Dean), 2-63 (Lowndes), 3-189 (Mills), 4-214 (Steele), 5-221 (Potter), 6-225 (Womble), 7-290 (Humphries), 8-291 (Harvey) | |||||||
| Bedfordshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Fantham | 9 | 1 | 53 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Murray | 10 | 0 | 44 | 0 | - | - | |
| Panesar | 7 | 0 | 52 | 0 | - | - | |
| Roberts | 17 | 2 | 67 | 3 | - | - | |
| Trott | 13 | 1 | 67 | 3 | - | - | |
| Bedfordshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| W Larkins | c Steele b Brock | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | |
| JR Page | lbw b Jervis | 4 | 3 | 9 | - | ||
| AR Roberts | c Lowndes b Brock | 13 | 24 | 26 | |||
| DJM Mercer | not out | 50 | 84 | 110 | |||
| *PDB Hoare | not out | 53 | 63 | 95 | |||
| AJ Trott | did not bat | ||||||
| SN Murray | did not bat | ||||||
| RN Dalton | did not bat | ||||||
| IJ Fantham | did not bat | ||||||
| GD Sandford | did not bat | ||||||
| MS Panesar | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 2 lb, 20 nb, 2 w) | 25 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 28 overs) | 145 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Larkins), 2-4 (Page), 3-18 (Roberts) | |||||||
| Staffordshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Brock | 7 | 1 | 12 | 2 | - | - | |
| Jervis | 6 | 1 | 26 | 1 | - | - | |
| Horsfall | 5 | 1 | 41 | 0 | - | - | |
| Womble | 5 | 1 | 30 | 0 | - | - | |
| Harvey | 3 | 1 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Steele | 2 | 1 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |