| Essex innings (20 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ML Pettini* | b Brown | 17 | 33 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 85.00 | |
| RS Bopara | st †O'Brien b Boje | 47 | 29 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 180.76 | |
| GW Flower | c †O'Brien b van der Wath | 33 | 28 | 31 | 3 | 0 | 106.45 | |
| JS Foster† | b Boje | 26 | 22 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 185.71 | |
| GR Napier | c Klusener b Hall | 40 | 23 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 200.00 | |
| RN ten Doeschate | c Sales b Louw | 10 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 142.85 | |
| JD Middlebrook | run out (Louw) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |
| NJ Dexter | run out (Klusener) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| DD Masters | lbw b Hall | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Danish Kaneria | not out | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |
| MA Chambers | not out | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 200.00 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 7, w 3, nb 2) | 16 | ||||||
| Total | (9 wickets; 20 overs) | 192 | (9.60 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-68 (Bopara), 2-72 (Pettini), 3-134 (Foster), 4-134 (Flower), 5-188 (ten Doeschate), 6-188 (Middlebrook), 7-190 (Dexter), 8-190 (Napier), 9-190 (Masters) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| JJ van der Wath | 4 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 8.25 | |||
| AJ Hall | 4 | 0 | 44 | 2 | 11.00 | (1nb, 2w) | ||
| J Louw | 3 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 13.33 | |||
| N Boje | 4 | 0 | 29 | 2 | 7.25 | |||
| JF Brown | 4 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 6.00 | (1w) | ||
| L Klusener | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 11.00 |
| Northamptonshire innings (target: 175 runs from 18 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RA White | c †Foster b Masters | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| NJ O'Brien† | b Masters | 6 | 28 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 46.15 | |
| AJ Hall | c †Foster b Napier | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| DJG Sales | b Napier | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| MH Wessels | c †Foster b Napier | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| N Boje* | not out | 58 | 60 | 43 | 8 | 0 | 134.88 | |
| SP Crook | b Chambers | 10 | 19 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 71.42 | |
| L Klusener | c Masters b Napier | 23 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 95.83 | |
| Extras | (lb 8, w 1, nb 4) | 13 | ||||||
| Total | (7 wickets; 18 overs) | 115 | (6.38 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat JJ van der Wath, J Louw, JF Brown |
| Fall of wickets1-0 (White), 2-3 (Hall), 3-3 (Sales), 4-11 (Wessels), 5-27 (O'Brien), 6-54 (Crook), 7-115 (Klusener) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DD Masters | 4 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 4.25 | |||
| GR Napier | 4 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 2.50 | |||
| MA Chambers | 3 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 8.33 | (2nb, 1w) | ||
| Danish Kaneria | 4 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 6.50 | |||
| JD Middlebrook | 3 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 9.66 |
| Match details |
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Toss Essex, who chose to bat Series Essex advanced |
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Player of the match
GR Napier (Essex) |
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Umpires
RA Kettleborough and NJ Llong TV umpire NL Bainton |
| Match notes |
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Jul 7, 2008 Grant Flower brings out the reverse-sweep © Getty Images |
Jul 7, 2008 Graham Napier celebrates one of his four wickets © Getty Images |
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