Format: CricInfo Version 2

John Player's League, 1980
Essex v Somerset
Valentine's Park, Ilford
4 May 1980 (40-overs match)

Result: Somerset won by 5 wickets
Points: Essex 0, Somerset 4

Toss: Essex
Umpires: RS Herman and AGT Whitehead

Essex innings
GA Gooch              c Taylor           b Garner              10
AW Lilley             c Taylor           b Botham              10
KS McEwan             run out                                  75
*KWR Fletcher                            b Dredge              34
BR Hardie                                b Richards            15
S Turner              c Richards         b Botham              23
N Phillip             c Dredge           b Garner              25
RE East               not out                                   7
+N Smith              not out                                   1
Extras                (b 2, lb 7, w 5)                         14
Total                 (7 wickets, 40 overs)                   214

DNB: JK Lever, DL Acfield.

FoW: 1-21, 2-21, 3-110, 4-143, 5-164, 6-205, 7-210.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Garner                       8      2     26      2
Botham                       8      0     42      2
Jennings                     8      0     37      0
Dredge                       8      0     40      1
Breakwell                    2      0     14      0
Richards                     6      0     41      1

Somerset innings
*BC Rose              not out                                 112
PW Denning            c Hardie           b Phillip             28
IVA Richards          lbw                b Turner              23
PM Roebuck            c Hardie           b Lever               15
IT Botham                            c & b Acfield              4
VJ Marks                                 b Lever                9
D Breakwell           not out                                   7
Extras                (lb 11, w 8)                             19
Total                 (5 wickets, 38.1 overs)                 217

DNB: +DJS Taylor, CH Dredge, KF Jennings, J Garner.

FoW: 1-99, 2-151, 3-181, 4-190, 5-199.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Lever                        7.1    1     34      2
Phillip                      8      0     48      1
Acfield                      8      0     38      1
Turner                       8      0     41      1
East                         7      0     37      0

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