| Essex innings (50 overs maximum) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| ML Pettini* | c Dippenaar b Kruger | 18 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 120.00 | ||
| JER Gallian | c Ackerman b Kruger | 9 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | ||
| V Chopra | b du Preez | 6 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 46.15 | ||
| RS Bopara | not out | 201 | 138 | 18 | 10 | 145.65 | ||
| RN ten Doeschate | b Allenby | 27 | 31 | 4 | 0 | 87.09 | ||
| JS Foster† | c Dippenaar b du Preez | 61 | 76 | 3 | 0 | 80.26 | ||
| JD Middlebrook | not out | 13 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 144.44 | ||
| Extras | (lb 9, w 6) | 15 | ||||||
| Total | (5 wickets; 50 overs; 165 mins) | 350 | (7.00 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat GR Napier, DD Masters, Danish Kaneria, AJ Tudor |
| Fall of wickets1-28 (Pettini), 2-34 (Gallian), 3-37 (Chopra), 4-104 (ten Doeschate), 5-294 (Foster) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| D du Preez | 10 | 0 | 60 | 2 | 6.00 | (1w) | ||
| GJP Kruger | 10 | 0 | 70 | 2 | 7.00 | (2w) | ||
| MN Malik | 8 | 0 | 68 | 0 | 8.50 | (2w) | ||
| J Allenby | 10 | 0 | 61 | 1 | 6.10 | |||
| CW Henderson | 10 | 0 | 59 | 0 | 5.90 | (1w) | ||
| JN Snape | 2 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 11.50 |
| Leicestershire innings (target: 351 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| HD Ackerman | c †Foster b Tudor | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 200.00 | |
| MAG Boyce | c †Foster b Masters | 57 | 106 | 69 | 5 | 0 | 82.60 | |
| HH Dippenaar | c †Foster b Tudor | 18 | 21 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 72.00 | |
| J Allenby | c Gallian b Napier | 6 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 | |
| PA Nixon*† | b Middlebrook | 62 | 78 | 64 | 5 | 0 | 96.87 | |
| J du Toit | c Pettini b ten Doeschate | 35 | 35 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 134.61 | |
| JN Snape | b Napier | 21 | 32 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 87.50 | |
| D du Preez | not out | 9 | 22 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 64.28 | |
| CW Henderson | b Bopara | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| MN Malik | b Bopara | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| GJP Kruger | c Chopra b ten Doeschate | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Extras | (lb 2, w 14) | 16 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 41 overs) | 232 | (5.65 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-4 (Ackerman), 2-32 (Dippenaar), 3-53 (Allenby), 4-157 (Boyce), 5-162 (Nixon), 6-217 (du Toit), 7-220 (Snape), 8-228 (Henderson), 9-228 (Malik), 10-232 (Kruger) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AJ Tudor | 6 | 0 | 38 | 2 | 6.33 | |||
| GR Napier | 8 | 0 | 48 | 2 | 6.00 | (2w) | ||
| DD Masters | 8 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 4.37 | |||
| RS Bopara | 6 | 0 | 34 | 2 | 5.66 | (1w) | ||
| Danish Kaneria | 3 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 8.33 | |||
| RN ten Doeschate | 7 | 0 | 32 | 2 | 4.57 | (7w) | ||
| JD Middlebrook | 3 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 6.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss Essex, who chose to bat Series Essex advanced |
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Player of the match
RS Bopara (Essex) |
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Umpires
RJ Bailey and IJ Gould |
| Match notes |
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Jun 4, 2008 James Foster prepares to sweep © Getty Images |
Jun 4, 2008 Ravi Bopara clubbed an unbeaten 201 off 138 balls against Leicestershire © Getty Images |
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