Gloucestershire 1st innings
RW Rice               c Ayres            b Young                5
H Wrathall                               b Young                6
CL Townsend           not out                                 224
*W Troup              c McGahey          b Mead               115
GL Jessop                                b Mead                 6
+JH Board                                b Young                2
WMcG Hemingway                           b Young               10
WSA Brown             lbw                b Reeves              20
HS Goodwin                               b Mead                 8
AJ Paish              c Fane             b Bull                 4
G Pepall                                 b Young                0
Extras                (b 18, lb 13, w 3, nb 2)                 36
Total                 (all out, 154.3 overs)                  436

FoW: 1-10, 2-31, 3-290, 4-299, 5-308, 6-343, 7-372, 8-397, 9-436, 10-436.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Mead                        52     20    105      3
Young                       41.3    4    123      5
Bull                        26      7     60      1
Reeves                      24      6     70      1
McGahey                      4      1     12      0
Ayres                        2      0     10      0
Carpenter                    3      1      9      0
Perrin                       2      0     11      0

Essex 1st innings
FL Fane                                  b Paish               62
HA Carpenter                             b Jessop              24
PA Perrin                            c & b Townsend            24
CP McGahey                               b Paish               49
AP Lucas                                 b Paish               23
GW Ayres                                 b Brown                1
W Reeves              lbw                b Paish                0
HI Young              lbw                b Paish                0
FG Bull               not out                                  27
W Mead                st Board           b Paish                3
+TM Russell           absent hurt                               -
Extras                (b 10, lb 9, w 1, nb 1)                  21
Total                 (all out, 93.3 overs)                   234

FoW: 1-64, 2-124, 3-132, 4-166, 5-169,
     6-176, 7-176, 8-216, 9-234.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Paish                       38.3   10     98      6
Brown                       21      5     48      1
Pepall                       9      5     17      0
Jessop                      13      1     28      1
Townsend                    12      4     22      1

Essex 2nd innings (following on)
FL Fane               c Board            b Townsend            25
HA Carpenter          c Wrathall         b Paish                5
PA Perrin             st Board           b Paish                0
CP McGahey            st Board           b Paish                0
AP Lucas                             c & b Brown                9
GW Ayres              c Troup            b Townsend             4
W Reeves              c Paish            b Townsend             1
HI Young                                 b Paish               26
FG Bull                              c & b Townsend             3
W Mead                not out                                   6
+TM Russell           absent hurt                               -
Extras                (b 1, w 5)                                6
Total                 (all out, 52.4 overs)                    85

FoW: 1-21, 2-22, 3-22, 4-38, 5-49, 6-50, 7-65, 8-77, 9-85.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Paish                       26     11     47      4
Brown                       14     11     10      1
Pepall                       6      3     12      0
Townsend                     6.4    2     10      4

• Townsend batted for 370 minutes and hit 28 fours in his innings of 224*. Troup's 115 took nearly 4 hours and included 17 fours.