Essex 1st innings
B Ward                c Steele           b Watts               43
BEA Edmeades                             b Watts               31
GJ Saville            c Johnson          b Sarfraz Nawaz       11
G Barker              c Swinburne        b Sarfraz Nawaz      105
*+B Taylor            not out                                 113
KD Boyce              not out                                   6
Extras                (b 5, lb 2, nb 7)                        14
Total                 (4 wickets declared, 91 overs)          323

DNB: ER Presland, S Turner, RNS Hobbs, RE East, JK Lever.

FoW: 1-67, 2-95, 3-95, 4-300.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Sarfraz Nawaz               18      2     71      2
Crump                       23      8     60      0
Willey                      19      1     69      0
Watts                       13      4     29      2
Swinburne                    8      2     34      0
Breakwell                   10      1     46      0

Northamptonshire 1st innings
HM Ackerman                              b Boyce               35
DS Steele             run out                                  20
A Lightfoot                              b Hobbs               96
Mushtaq Mohammad      lbw                b Lever               15
PJ Watts              c Presland         b Boyce               15
P Willey                                 b Boyce                7
D Breakwell           c East             b Hobbs               12
Sarfraz Nawaz                            b East                20
JW Swinburne          st Taylor          b Hobbs                4
+LA Johnson           c Barker           b Boyce               19
*BS Crump             not out                                   3
Extras                (b 6, lb 2, w 1, nb 12)                  21
Total                 (all out, 93.2 overs)                   267

FoW: 1-56, 2-70, 3-94, 4-135, 5-158,
     6-211, 7-239, 8-245, 9-245, 10-267.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Boyce                       23.2    4     80      4
Lever                       23      4     74      1
Turner                      29      6     49      0
Hobbs                       15      4     39      3
East                         3      1      4      1

Essex 2nd innings
B Ward                run out                                   2
BEA Edmeades          c Breakwell        b Sarfraz Nawaz       17
GJ Saville            c sub              b Watts               32
G Barker              c Willey           b Breakwell           31
*+B Taylor            c Breakwell        b Watts               18
KD Boyce              c Lightfoot        b Breakwell           69
ER Presland           c Johnson          b Breakwell            5
S Turner              lbw                b Sarfraz Nawaz        9
RNS Hobbs             not out                                   8
RE East               not out                                   1
Extras                (b 3, lb 3, w 1, nb 10)                  17
Total                 (8 wickets declared, 67 overs)          209

DNB: JK Lever.

FoW: 1-17, 2-24, 3-86, 4-110, 5-124, 6-161, 7-207, 8-207.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Sarfraz Nawaz               22      4     64      2
Willey                      18      4     29      0
Watts                       10      1     54      2
Breakwell                   17      5     45      3

Northamptonshire 2nd innings (target: 266 runs)
HM Ackerman           run out                                  36
DS Steele                            c & b Hobbs               25
A Lightfoot                              b Turner              23
Mushtaq Mohammad      c Taylor           b Turner              14
PJ Watts              not out                                  14
P Willey                                 b Turner               0
D Breakwell           not out                                   0
Extras                (b 4, lb 3, nb 7)                        14
Total                 (5 wickets, 48 overs)                   126

DNB: Sarfraz Nawaz, JW Swinburne, +LA Johnson, *BS Crump.

FoW: 1-62, 2-64, 3-105, 4-113, 5-115.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Boyce                        6      0     19      0
Lever                        4      0     27      0
Turner                      16      4     39      3
Hobbs                       18     10     23      1
East                         4      3      4      0