Format: CricInfo Version 2

Refuge Assurance League, 1985
Somerset v Essex
County Ground, Taunton
28 July 1985 (40-overs match)

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

Toss: Essex
Umpires: KJ Lyons and R Palmer

Somerset innings
PM Roebuck                               b Pont                 0
NFM Popplewell        c McEwan           b Turner              33
NA Felton             lbw                b Pont                 3
IVA Richards                             b Topley               5
JG Wyatt              c East             b Topley               4
*IT Botham            c Prichard         b Gooch               58
VJ Marks              c Gooch            b Acfield             19
J Garner              c Gooch            b Pringle             26
MR Davis              run out                                   1
+T Gard               not out                                  11
CH Dredge             not out                                   3
Extras                (lb 5, w 4, nb 1)                        10
Total                 (9 wickets, 40 overs)                   173

FoW: 1-8, 2-14, 3-29, 4-48, 5-50, 6-116, 7-144, 8-146, 9-161.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Pringle                      7      0     36      1
Pont                         5      0     18      2
Topley                       8      1     26      2
Turner                       8      0     37      1
Gooch                        8      0     33      1
Acfield                      4      0     18      1

Essex innings
*GA Gooch             c Garner           b Botham              37
PJ Prichard           st Gard            b Marks               15
KS McEwan             not out                                  54
DR Pringle            c Gard             b Davis               14
BR Hardie             c Botham           b Richards             9
AW Lilley                                b Botham              12
+DE East              not out                                  14
Extras                (lb 13, w 4, nb 2)                       19
Total                 (5 wickets, 38.5 overs)                 174

DNB: IL Pont, S Turner, TD Topley, DL Acfield.

FoW: 1-39, 2-57, 3-105, 4-126, 5-157.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Garner                       8      1     26      0
Botham                       7      0     35      2
Marks                        7      0     34      1
Dredge                       5      0     17      0
Davis                        5      0     19      1
Richards                     6.5    2     30      1

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