Format: CricInfo Version 2

John Player's League, 1981
Somerset v Essex
County Ground, Taunton
10 May 1981 (40-overs match)

Result: Essex won by 9 runs

Toss: Somerset
Umpires:

Essex innings
GA Gooch              c Dredge           b Botham               2
BR Hardie             c Rose             b Dredge              17
KS McEwan             c Botham           b Breakwell           43
N Phillip             c Roebuck          b Richards            24
S Turner              run out                                  28
KR Pont                                  b Botham              14
*KWR Fletcher                            b Botham               3
AW Lilley             run out                                   1
+N Smith              not out                                   0
Extras                (lb 4, w 2, nb 1)                         7
Total                 (8 wickets, 30 overs)                   139

DNB: RE East, JK Lever.

FoW: 1-5, 2-33, 3-90, 4-93, 5-127, 6-137, 7-139, 8-139.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Garner                       6      0     26      0
Botham                       6      1     11      3
Dredge                       6      0     25      1
Moseley                      6      0     22      0
Richards                     3      0     21      1
Breakwell                    3      0     27      1

Somerset innings
*BC Rose              lbw                b Phillip              0
PW Denning            c Fletcher         b Phillip              3
IVA Richards          c McEwan           b Turner              14
PM Roebuck            c Lever            b Gooch               20
IT Botham             c McEwan           b East                32
D Breakwell                              b Gooch                6
VJ Marks                                 b Lever               15
J Garner              not out                                  13
+DJS Taylor           not out                                   5
Extras                (b 1, lb 19, w 2)                        22
Total                 (7 wickets, 30 overs)                   130

DNB: CH Dredge, HR Moseley.

FoW: 1-5, 2-6, 3-29, 4-66, 5-89, 6-95, 7-118.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Lever                        6      3     12      1
Phillip                      6      0     29      2
Pont                         6      1     24      0
Turner                       6      1     17      1
Gooch                        3      0     15      2
East                         3      0     11      1

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