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| Venue | Old Trafford, Manchester on 4th, 6th, 7th August 1979 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Lancashire won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Lancashire 6 (Batting 2, Bowling 4); Somerset 8 (Batting 4, Bowling 4) |
| Umpires | DGL Evans, CT Spencer |
| Close of play day 1 | Somerset (1) 50/0 (Rose 31*, Slocombe 15*; 15 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | Lancashire (2) 67/3 (Hayes 32*, Lyon 3*) |
| Lancashire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| B Wood | c Roebuck b Garner | 12 | |||||
| D Lloyd | b Popplewell | 10 | |||||
| *FC Hayes | c Garner b Jennings | 65 | |||||
| CH Lloyd | c Taylor b Popplewell | 15 | |||||
| BW Reidy | c Slocombe b Jennings | 13 | |||||
| J Simmons | c Taylor b Garner | 0 | |||||
| DP Hughes | lbw b Garner | 0 | |||||
| +J Lyon | c Richards b Popplewell | 18 | |||||
| RM Ratcliffe | not out | 43 | |||||
| PJW Allott | b Jennings | 0 | |||||
| PG Lee | not out | 6 | |||||
| Extras | (1 b, 9 lb, 5 nb, 3 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 100 overs) | 200 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-17, 2-33, 3-50, 4-52, 5-52, 6-81, 7-149, 8-150, 9-193 | |||||||
| Somerset bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Garner | 25 | 7 | 51 | 3 | - | - | |
| Popplewell | 24 | 10 | 43 | 3 | - | - | |
| Jennings | 30 | 9 | 62 | 3 | - | - | |
| Richards | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| Breakwell | 17 | 10 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Marks | 3 | 2 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
| Somerset first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *BC Rose | c Lyon b Wood | 87 | |||||
| PA Slocombe | c CH Lloyd b Ratcliffe | 33 | |||||
| IVA Richards | lbw b Ratcliffe | 36 | |||||
| PM Roebuck | b Wood | 11 | |||||
| PW Denning | c Hayes b Simmons | 106 | |||||
| VJ Marks | c D Lloyd b Lee | 60 | |||||
| D Breakwell | lbw b Simmons | 21 | |||||
| NFM Popplewell | lbw b Simmons | 0 | |||||
| +DJS Taylor | not out | 10 | |||||
| KF Jennings | lbw b Simmons | 0 | |||||
| J Garner | not out | 0 | |||||
| Extras | (12 b, 6 lb, 4 nb, 2 w) | 24 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 100 overs) | 388 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-119, 2-146, 3-172, 4-178, 5-299, 6-353, 7-355, 8-388, 9-388 | |||||||
| Lancashire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lee | 15 | 2 | 78 | 1 | - | - | |
| Allott | 16 | 3 | 63 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ratcliffe | 30 | 5 | 113 | 2 | - | - | |
| Wood | 19 | 3 | 48 | 2 | - | - | |
| Simmons | 13 | 1 | 35 | 4 | - | - | |
| Hughes | 7 | 2 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| Lancashire second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| D Lloyd | b Garner | 23 | |||||
| *FC Hayes | not out | 48 | |||||
| CH Lloyd | c Richards b Marks | 2 | |||||
| BW Reidy | c Taylor b Garner | 6 | |||||
| +J Lyon | not out | 8 | |||||
| B Wood | did not bat | ||||||
| J Simmons | did not bat | ||||||
| DP Hughes | did not bat | ||||||
| RM Ratcliffe | did not bat | ||||||
| PJW Allott | did not bat | ||||||
| PG Lee | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 1 nb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 39 overs) | 90 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-32, 2-45, 3-55 | |||||||
| Somerset bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Garner | 18 | 3 | 42 | 2 | - | - | |
| Popplewell | 5 | 2 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Jennings | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Richards | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| Breakwell | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |
| Marks | 6 | 2 | 11 | 1 | - | - | |
Notes
--> The first innings of the match was limited to 100 overs; the total overs for both teams first innings was limited to 200 overs
--> FC Hayes (1) passed 10000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 49
--> J Lyon (1) passed 1000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 14
--> BC Rose (1) passed 7500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 47
--> PW Denning (1) passed 7500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 44
--> D Breakwell (1) passed 4000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 16
--> NFM Popplewell achieved his best innings bowling analysis in County Championship matches in the Lancashire first innings (previous best was 0-1)
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