Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Grant Flower	c †Nixon b Masters	4	28	41	0	0	14.28
Alastair Cook	lbw b Willoughby	62	139	167	8	0	44.60
Ravi Bopara	c Cummins b Masters	17	36	41	2	0	47.22
Andy Flower	c Maddy b Cummins	3	5	3	0	0	60.00
Ronnie Irani (c)	b Masters	97	167	220	5	6	58.08
James Foster †	c †Nixon b Cummins	32	82	86	4	0	39.02
James Middlebrook	c †Nixon b Cummins	12	26	27	1	0	46.15
Andre Adams	c Ackerman b Henderson	36	40	68	4	2	90.00
Darren Gough	c Mongia b Masters	2	11	9	0	0	18.18
Tony Palladino	lbw b Willoughby	17	32	34	3	0	53.12
Danish Kaneria	not out	0	0	3	0	0	-
Extras	(b 6, lb 6, nb 2, w 1)	15
Total	94.1 Ov (RR: 3.15)	297
Fall of wickets: 1-21 (Grant Flower), 2-54 (Ravi Bopara), 3-57 (Andy Flower), 4-113 (Alastair Cook), 5-191 (James Foster), 6-213 (James Middlebrook), 7-247 (Ronnie Irani), 8-253 (Darren Gough), 9-288 (Andre Adams), 10-297 (Tony Palladino)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Charl Willoughby	28.1	8	73	2	2.59	-	-	-	1	0
David Masters	25	11	65	4	2.60	-	-	-	0	1
Ryan Cummins	12	2	49	3	4.08	-	-	-	0	0
Darren Maddy	7	1	27	0	3.85	-	-	-	0	0
Claude Henderson	13	3	32	1	2.46	-	-	-	0	0
Dinesh Mongia	4	0	22	0	5.50	-	-	-	0	0
John Maunders	5	0	17	0	3.40	-	-	-	0	0

Leicestershire 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Darren Robinson	c †Foster b Gough	5	15	26	1	0	33.33
Darren Maddy	c Middlebrook b Gough	3	7	9	0	0	42.85
David Masters	c GW Flower b Palladino	2	22	20	0	0	9.09
John Maunders	c Middlebrook b Adams	46	116	167	7	0	39.65
Dinesh Mongia	lbw b Palladino	4	9	9	1	0	44.44
HD Ackerman (c)	c †Foster b Adams	9	29	40	1	0	31.03
Aftab Habib	not out	153	300	438	19	1	51.00
Paul Nixon †	c †Foster b Danish Kaneria	85	154	266	14	0	55.19
Claude Henderson	c GW Flower b Adams	36	43	48	5	0	83.72
Ryan Cummins	not out	4	5	8	1	0	80.00
Extras	(b 3, lb 8, nb 24)	35
Total	115 Ov (RR: 3.32)	382/8d
Did not bat: Charl Willoughby
Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Darren Maddy), 2-12 (Darren Robinson), 3-14 (David Masters), 4-20 (Dinesh Mongia), 5-36 (HD Ackerman), 6-123 (John Maunders), 7-301 (Paul Nixon), 8-366 (Claude Henderson)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	NB
Darren Gough	31	11	81	2	2.61	-	-	-	8
Tony Palladino	25	6	80	2	3.20	-	-	-	1
Danish Kaneria	18	3	72	1	4.00	-	-	-	1
Andre Adams	27	7	83	3	3.07	-	-	-	0
Ravi Bopara	5	0	21	0	4.20	-	-	-	0
James Middlebrook	9	2	34	0	3.77	-	-	-	0

Essex 2nd Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Grant Flower	c Masters b Cummins	24	79	86	3	0	30.37
Alastair Cook	lbw b Masters	4	8	14	1	0	50.00
Ravi Bopara	not out	48	77	81	6	1	62.33
Andy Flower	not out	0	10	7	0	0	0.00
Extras	(b 1, lb 3)	4
Total	29 Ov (RR: 2.75)	80/2
Did not bat: Ronnie Irani (c), James Foster †, James Middlebrook, Andre Adams, Darren Gough, Tony Palladino, Danish Kaneria
Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Alastair Cook), 2-72 (Grant Flower)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s
Charl Willoughby	6	1	15	0	2.50	-	-	-
David Masters	5	2	9	1	1.80	-	-	-
Claude Henderson	9	1	33	0	3.66	-	-	-
Darren Maddy	5	2	16	0	3.20	-	-	-
Ryan Cummins	4	2	3	1	0.75	-	-	-

Close of Play

Tue, 26 Jul - day 1 - Leics 1st innings 12/2 (David Masters 2*, 6.4 ov)

Wed, 27 Jul - day 2 - Leics 1st innings 132/6 (Aftab Habib 48*, Paul Nixon 3*, 55 ov)

Thu, 28 Jul - day 3 - no play

Fri, 29 Jul - day 4 - Essex 2nd innings 80/2 (29 ov) - end of match

Match Flow

Day 4

Match Details

Grace Road, Leicester
Toss	Leicestershire, elected to field first
Series	County Championship Division Two
Season	2005
Match days	day (4-day match)
Umpires	John Hampshire Peter Hartley
Points	Essex 8, Leicestershire 11

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Essex Innings

Player Name	O	M	R	W	Econ
CM Willoughby	6	1	15	0	2.5
DD Masters	5	2	9	1	1.8
CW Henderson	9	1	33	0	3.66
DL Maddy	5	2	16	0	3.2
RAG Cummins	4	2	3	1	0.75

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