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| Venue | Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood on 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th September 1997 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Middlesex won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Middlesex won by 10 wickets |
| Points | Middlesex 23 (Batting 3, Bowling 4); Nottinghamshire 3 (Batting 1, Bowling 2) |
| Umpires | GI Burgess, B Leadbeater |
| Close of play day 1 | Middlesex (1) 283/5 (Shah 21*, Brown 0*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Nottinghamshire (1) 116/4 (Afzaal 8*, Tolley 23*) |
| Close of play day 3 | Nottinghamshire (2) 93/2 (Welton 33*, Johnson 18*) |
| Middlesex first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JC Pooley | st Noon b Bates | 98 | |||||
| JH Kallis | lbw b Tolley | 34 | |||||
| *MR Ramprakash | run out | 55 | |||||
| MW Gatting | b Franks | 33 | |||||
| OA Shah | not out | 104 | |||||
| DC Nash | b Bowen | 6 | |||||
| +KR Brown | c Tolley b Evans | 14 | |||||
| JP Hewitt | c Johnson b Afzaal | 13 | |||||
| ARC Fraser | st Noon b Afzaal | 27 | |||||
| PCR Tufnell | not out | 7 | |||||
| TF Bloomfield | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 6 lb, 28 nb) | 39 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 160 overs) | 430 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-66, 2-184, 3-225, 4-269, 5-283, 6-319, 7-376, 8-410 | |||||||
| Nottinghamshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Bowen | 25 | 4 | 75 | 1 | - | - |
| Franks | 25 | 3 | 95 | 1 | - | - |
| Tolley | 23 | 4 | 70 | 1 | - | - |
| Evans | 33 | 10 | 70 | 1 | - | - |
| Bates | 42 | 11 | 80 | 1 | - | - |
| Afzaal | 12 | 2 | 29 | 2 | - | - |
| Nottinghamshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MP Dowman | lbw b Tufnell | 28 | |||||
| RT Robinson | c Brown b Tufnell | 35 | |||||
| GE Welton | c Brown b Tufnell | 14 | |||||
| *P Johnson | c Pooley b Kallis | 1 | |||||
| U Afzaal | b Kallis | 14 | |||||
| CM Tolley | c Brown b Kallis | 42 | |||||
| +WM Noon | run out | 39 | |||||
| PJ Franks | c Gatting b Kallis | 1 | |||||
| KP Evans | c Shah b Tufnell | 13 | |||||
| RT Bates | not out | 8 | |||||
| MN Bowen | c Nash b Tufnell | 3 | |||||
| Extras | (8 lb, 4 nb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 91.1 overs) | 210 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-69, 2-72, 3-73, 4-91, 5-123, 6-148, 7-152, 8-179, 9-207, 10-210 (91.1 ov) | |||||||
| Middlesex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Fraser | 14 | 7 | 24 | 0 | - | - |
| Hewitt | 17 | 5 | 48 | 0 | - | - |
| Tufnell | 32.1 | 6 | 61 | 5 | - | - |
| Kallis | 18 | 5 | 39 | 4 | - | - |
| Bloomfield | 4 | 1 | 12 | 0 | - | - |
| Ramprakash | 6 | 3 | 18 | 0 | - | - |
| Nottinghamshire second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| MP Dowman | c Brown b Tufnell | 13 | |||||
| RT Robinson | lbw b Bloomfield | 19 | |||||
| GE Welton | b Bloomfield | 47 | |||||
| *P Johnson | lbw b Bloomfield | 44 | |||||
| U Afzaal | run out | 21 | |||||
| CM Tolley | lbw b Fraser | 2 | |||||
| +WM Noon | b Kallis | 7 | |||||
| PJ Franks | c Shah b Kallis | 19 | |||||
| KP Evans | lbw b Kallis | 14 | |||||
| RT Bates | not out | 6 | |||||
| MN Bowen | retired hurt | 3 | |||||
| Extras | (7 b, 12 lb, 12 nb, 2 w) | 33 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 115 overs) | 228 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-30, 2-47, 3-129, 4-136, 5-148, 6-168, 7-184, 8-200, 9-221 | |||||||
| Middlesex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Fraser | 20 | 10 | 34 | 1 | - | - |
| Hewitt | 7 | 1 | 25 | 0 | - | - |
| Bloomfield | 17 | 6 | 33 | 3 | - | - |
| Kallis | 25 | 6 | 58 | 3 | - | - |
| Tufnell | 40 | 15 | 57 | 1 | - | - |
| Ramprakash | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | - | - |
| Middlesex second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| ARC Fraser | not out | 12 | |||||
| JP Hewitt | not out | 0 | |||||
| JC Pooley | did not bat | ||||||
| JH Kallis | did not bat | ||||||
| *MR Ramprakash | did not bat | ||||||
| MW Gatting | did not bat | ||||||
| OA Shah | did not bat | ||||||
| +KR Brown | did not bat | ||||||
| DC Nash | did not bat | ||||||
| TF Bloomfield | did not bat | ||||||
| PCR Tufnell | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (no wicket, 1 overs) | 12 | |||||
| Nottinghamshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Noon | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - |
Notes
--> Middlesex score at 120 overs in the first innings was 321-6
--> JC Pooley (1) passed 3000 runs in County Championship matches when he reached 80
--> MW Gatting (1) passed 1000 runs in first-class matches for the season when he reached 21
--> OA Shah (1) passed his previous highest score of 77 in County Championship matches
--> OA Shah (1) passed his previous highest score of 77 in first-class matches
--> JP Hewitt (1) passed 500 runs in first-class matches when he reached 12
--> GE Welton (2) passed his previous highest score of 40 in County Championship matches
--> GE Welton (2) passed his previous highest score of 40 in first-class matches
--> PCR Tufnell reached 50 wickets in first-class matches for the season when taking his 3rd wicket in the Nottinghamshire first innings
--> PCR Tufnell reached 550 wickets in County Championship matches when taking his 1st wicket in the Nottinghamshire first innings
--> TF Bloomfield achieved his best innings bowling analysis in first-class matches in the Nottinghamshire second innings (previous best was 2-13)
--> TF Bloomfield achieved his best innings bowling analysis in County Championship matches in the Nottinghamshire second innings (previous best was 2-13)
--> MN Bowen retired hurt in the Nottinghamshire second innings having scored 3 (team score 228/9)