sec2237	Middlesex Second XI v Essex Second XI
	Second Eleven Championship 1979
Venue	Barclays Bank Sports Ground, Ealing on 1st, 2nd August 1979 (2-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Essex Second XI won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Essex Second XI won by 125 runs
Points	Middlesex Second XI 1 (Bowling 1); Essex Second XI 11 (Bowling 1)
Umpires	GR Axworthy, AE Bishop
Close of play day 1	Middlesex Second XI (1) 52/1

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Essex Second XI first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AW Lilley	c Fisher b Hughes	49
DS Rathie	c Tomlins b Hughes	3
R Herbert	c Fisher b Hughes	45
DR Pringle	not out	10
C Gladwin	did not bat
+RJ Andrews	did not bat
GC Stephenson	did not bat
C Stone	did not bat
GE Sainsbury	did not bat
MJ Daniels	did not bat
*B Taylor	did not bat
Extras	(1 b, 2 lb, 9 nb)	12
Total	(3 wickets, declared, 36 overs)	119
Fall of wickets:
1-12 (Rathie), 2-83 (Lilley), 3-119 (Herbert)

Middlesex Second XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Herkes	12	1	33	0	-	-
Hughes	12	3	38	3	-	6
Tomlins	11	2	34	0	-	3
Patel	1	0	2	0	-	-

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Middlesex Second XI first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
SJ Poulter	run out	13
*WN Slack	c Pringle b Herbert	50
KP Tomlins	c Gladwin b Herbert	15
RP Moulding	not out	18
TS Bishop	not out	2
KD James	did not bat
AS Patel	did not bat
CFE Goldie	did not bat
+PB Fisher	did not bat
SP Hughes	did not bat
R Herkes	did not bat
Extras	(3 b, 2 lb)	5
Total	(3 wickets, declared, 33 overs)	103
Fall of wickets:
1-24 (Poulter), 2-61 (Tomlins), 3-92 (Slack)

Essex Second XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Sainsbury	4	1	8	0	-	-
Stone	16	6	36	0	-	-
Herbert	13	2	54	2	-	-

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Essex Second XI second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AW Lilley	c and b Hughes	9
DS Rathie	lbw b Hughes	75
R Herbert	c James b Hughes	1
DR Pringle	b Patel	4
C Gladwin	c Moulding b James	4
GC Stephenson	lbw b Patel	9
C Stone	c Fisher b Herkes	7
+RJ Andrews	c and b Hughes	2
GE Sainsbury	b Hughes	0
MJ Daniels	not out	6
*B Taylor	c Moulding b Herkes	4
Extras	(4 b, 9 lb, 4 nb)	17
Total	(all out, 53.2 overs)	138
Fall of wickets:
1-27 (Lilley), 2-33 (Herbert), 3-54 (Pringle), 4-69 (Gladwin), 5-88 (Stephenson), 6-122 (Rathie), 7-124 (Andrews), 8-124 (Sainsbury), 9-132 (Stone), 10-138 (Taylor)

Middlesex Second XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Herkes	13.2	3	29	2	-	-
Hughes	13	5	23	5	-	4
Patel	16	2	40	2	-	-
James	11	4	29	1	-	-

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Middlesex Second XI second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
SJ Poulter	b Sainsbury	1
*WN Slack	b Daniels	2
KP Tomlins	b Sainsbury	2
RP Moulding	b Sainsbury	1
TS Bishop	lbw b Sainsbury	0
AS Patel	c Taylor b Sainsbury	5
KD James	b Sainsbury	0
CFE Goldie	b Sainsbury	11
+PB Fisher	c Andrews b Daniels	1
SP Hughes	c Pringle b Sainsbury	1
R Herkes	not out	0
Extras	(1 b, 1 lb, 3 nb)	5
Total	(all out, 17 overs)	29
Fall of wickets:
1-4 (Slack), 2-4 (Poulter), 3-8 (Tomlins), 4-8 (Bishop), 5-13 (Moulding), 6-13 (James), 7-20 (Patel), 8-26 (Goldie), 9-29 (Fisher), 10-29 (Hughes)

Essex Second XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Sainsbury	9	7	8	8	-	-
Daniels	8	2	16	2	-	3

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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

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Play did not begin on the first day until 3.15pm.