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County Championship, 1931Essex v Somerset
 County Ground, Leyton
 25,27,28 July 1931 (3-day match)
 
Result: Match drawn 
Toss: SomersetUmpires: RD Burrows and AE Street
 
Close of play:
Day 1: Somerset 224, Essex 54/1 (LG Crawley 27*, DF Pope 1*)
 Day 2: No play 
Somerset 1st innings
EF Longrigg                              b Nichols             10
JW Lee                                   b Nichols             45
FS Lee                                   b O'Connor            12
RA Ingle              run out                                  45
*JC White             c Daer             b Farnes              52
CC Case               lbw                b O'Connor             9
HD Burrough           lbw                b O'Connor             0
AW Wellard                               b Farnes               4
+AG Marshall          lbw                b Smith               10
GE Hunt                                  b Nichols             13
WHR Andrews           not out                                   0
Extras                (b 11, lb 9, w 1, nb 3)                  24
Total                 (all out, 81.5 overs)                   224
FoW: 1-16, 2-55, 3-116, 4-129, 5-142,
     6-146, 7-155, 8-188, 9-224, 10-224.
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Nichols                     19      2     63      3
Farnes                      19.5    7     45      2
Daer                         7      2     20      0
O'Connor                    27      7     56      3
Smith                        9      2     16      1
Essex 1st innings
LG Crawley                           c & b Wellard             86
JA Cutmore                               b Wellard             18
DF Pope                                  b White               44
J O'Connor                               b White               26
C Bray                c Wellard          b White                0
MS Nichols            not out                                  35
*HM Morris            c Andrews          b White                0
+JR Sheffield         not out                                  20
Extras                (b 5, lb 13, w 2)                        20
Total                 (6 wickets declared, 116 overs)         249
DNB: AG Daer, TPB Smith, K Farnes.
FoW: 1-51, 2-150, 3-187, 4-187, 5-198, 6-198.
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Wellard                     31      7     70      2
Andrews                     10      2     35      0
White                       46     19     78      4
JW Lee                      24     11     41      0
Hunt                         3      3      0      0
Longrigg                     2      0      5      0
Somerset 2nd innings
EF Longrigg           not out                                  23
WHR Andrews                              b Cutmore              4
Extras                (lb 1)                                    1
Total                 (1 wicket, 11.5 overs)                   28
DNB: JW Lee, FS Lee, RA Ingle, *JC White, CC Case, HD Burrough,
     AW Wellard, +AG Marshall, GE Hunt.
FoW: 1-28.
Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Bray                         4      1      5      0
Morris                       3      0     10      0
Cutmore                      2.5    0     10      1
Pope                         2      0      2      0
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