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| Venue | Old Trafford, Manchester on 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th July 2005 (4-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Essex won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Lancashire 10 (Batting 4, Bowling 2); Essex 9 (Batting 5) |
| Umpires | NJ Llong, JW Lloyds |
| Scorers | AE Choat (Essex), A West (Lancashire) |
| Close of play day 1 | Essex (1) 279/4 (A Flower 62*, Irani 24*; 85 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | Lancashire (1) 126/1 (Sutcliffe 37*, Loye 75*; 49 overs) |
| Close of play day 3 | Lancashire (1) 443/4 (Symonds 54*, Crook 0*; 159 overs) |
| Essex first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WI Jefferson | c Horton b Cork | 1 | 7 | 5 | - | - | |
| AN Cook | c Cork b Chapple | 32 | 56 | 70 | 5 | - | |
| GW Flower | c Hegg b Keedy | 115 | 238 | 269 | 19 | - | |
| RS Bopara | c and b Cork | 17 | 65 | 102 | 2 | - | |
| A Flower | c Hegg b Crook | 138 | 262 | 397 | 22 | - | |
| *RC Irani | c Symonds b Chapple | 59 | 76 | 138 | 8 | 1 | |
| +JS Foster | c Anderson b Cork | 24 | 31 | 40 | 4 | - | |
| JD Middlebrook | c Chapple b Crook | 64 | 80 | 97 | 6 | 3 | |
| AR Adams | b Crook | 48 | 24 | 24 | 3 | 5 | |
| AP Palladino | not out | 0 | 4 | 7 | - | - | |
| Danish Kaneria | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (10 b, 21 lb, 6 nb, 1 w) | 38 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 140 overs) | 536 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Jefferson), 2-57 (Cook), 3-129 (Bopara), 4-225 (GW Flower), 5-323 (Irani), 6-363 (Foster), 7-478 (Middlebrook), 8-505 (A Flower), 9-536 (Adams, 140 ov) | |||||||
| Lancashire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Anderson | 36 | 4 | 140 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cork | 29 | 8 | 91 | 3 | - | 1 | |
| Chapple | 30 | 13 | 55 | 2 | - | 1 | |
| Symonds | 20 | 4 | 62 | 0 | - | - | |
| Keedy | 15 | 0 | 86 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Crook | 10 | 2 | 71 | 3 | - | - | |
| Lancashire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *MJ Chilton | c Foster b Adams | 4 | 32 | 35 | 1 | - | |
| IJ Sutcliffe | c and b Bopara | 66 | 191 | 223 | 10 | - | |
| MB Loye | c Cook b GW Flower | 194 | 416 | 460 | 25 | 2 | |
| PJ Horton | c Adams b GW Flower | 99 | 257 | 327 | 16 | - | |
| A Symonds | b Middlebrook | 134 | 211 | 262 | 22 | - | |
| AR Crook | c and b GW Flower | 43 | 105 | 110 | 3 | 1 | |
| DG Cork | not out | 57 | 84 | 117 | 3 | 3 | |
| G Chapple | not out | 19 | 33 | 24 | 3 | - | |
| +WK Hegg | did not bat | ||||||
| JM Anderson | did not bat | ||||||
| G Keedy | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (12 b, 4 lb, 12 nb, 11 w) | 39 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, declared, 220.3 overs) | 655 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-15 (Chilton), 2-166 (Sutcliffe), 3-376 (Loye), 4-443 (Horton), 5-525 (Crook), 6-629 (Symonds) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Palladino | 16 | 4 | 45 | 0 | - | 5 | |
| Adams | 19 | 6 | 65 | 1 | - | - | |
| Danish Kaneria | 70.2 | 10 | 208 | 0 | 1 | - | |
| Bopara | 18 | 3 | 64 | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Middlebrook | 41.4 | 11 | 119 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Cook | 4 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| GW Flower | 47.3 | 17 | 112 | 3 | 3 | - | |
| Jefferson | 4 | 1 | 15 | 0 | - | - | |
Notes
--> Essex score at 130 overs in the first innings was 460-6
--> Lancashire score at 130 overs in the first innings was 354-2
--> GW Flower (1) passed his previous highest score of 75 in County Championship matches
--> GW Flower (1) made his first century in County Championship matches
--> GW Flower (1) 100 in 212 balls, 241 minutes with 16 fours
--> GW Flower (1) passed 9500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 34
--> A Flower (1) 100 in 195 balls, 278 minutes with 17 fours
--> A Flower (1) passed 1000 runs in First-Class matches for the season when he reached 105
--> A Flower (1) passed 14500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 111
--> JD Middlebrook (1) passed 2500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 23
--> MB Loye (1) 100 in 200 balls, 225 minutes with 14 fours and 1 six
--> MB Loye (1) passed 10000 runs in County Championship matches when he reached 166
--> PJ Horton (1) passed his previous highest score of 41 in County Championship matches
--> PJ Horton (1) passed his previous highest score of 84 in First-Class matches
--> A Symonds (1) 100 in 160 balls, 195 minutes with 17 fours
--> AR Crook (1) passed his previous highest score of 27 in County Championship matches
--> A Symonds made his debut for Lancashire in County Championship matches
--> A Symonds made his debut for Lancashire in First-Class matches
--> AR Crook achieved his best innings bowling analysis in First-Class matches when he dismissed A Flower in the Essex first innings (previous best was 1-8)
--> AR Crook achieved his best innings bowling analysis in County Championship matches when he dismissed A Flower in the Essex first innings (previous best was 1-8)
--> JD Middlebrook reached 200 wickets in First-Class matches when he dismissed A Symonds, his 1st wicket in the Lancashire first innings
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