f43208 cc18917	Nottinghamshire v Essex
	Britannic Assurance County Championship 1997
Venue	Town Ground, Worksop on 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd August 1997 (4-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Essex won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Points	Nottinghamshire 9 (Batting 4, Bowling 2); Essex 8 (Batting 4, Bowling 1)
Umpires	DJ Constant, JW Holder
Close of play day 1	Essex (1) 319/4 (Grayson 35*, DR Law 13*)
Close of play day 2	Essex (1) 440/7 (Napier 35*, Cowan 6*)
Close of play day 3	Essex (2) 10/1 (Prichard 6*, Ilott 1*)

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Essex first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*PJ Prichard	c Noon b Oram	46
DDJ Robinson	c Astle b Evans	40
TP Hodgson	lbw b Astle	44
SG Law	c Noon b Afzaal	115
AP Grayson	c Metcalfe b Evans	44
DR Law	c Oram b Tolley	59
+RJ Rollins	c Johnson b Tolley	19
GR Napier	not out	35
AP Cowan	not out	6
MC Ilott	did not bat
PM Such	did not bat
Extras	(14 b, 8 lb, 6 nb, 4 w)	32
Total	(7 wickets, declared, 137 overs)	440
Fall of wickets:
1-94, 2-101, 3-194, 4-288, 5-329, 6-380, 7-421

Nottinghamshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Oram	22	8	71	1	-	-
Evans	23	8	48	2	-	-
Tolley	30	7	102	2	-	-
Bowen	26	6	84	0	-	-
Astle	15	4	29	1	-	-
Afzaal	17	4	64	1	-	-
Dowman	4	0	20	0	-	-

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Nottinghamshire first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
MP Dowman	lbw b Napier	27
RT Robinson	not out	143
NJ Astle	c DR Law b Cowan	100
*P Johnson	c Grayson b Such	41
AA Metcalfe	did not bat
U Afzaal	did not bat
CM Tolley	did not bat
+WM Noon	did not bat
KP Evans	did not bat
MN Bowen	did not bat
AR Oram	did not bat
Extras	(4 b, 12 lb, 10 nb, 14 w)	40
Total	(3 wickets, declared, 99.3 overs)	351
Fall of wickets:
1-61, 2-254, 3-351 (99.3 ov)

Essex bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Ilott	16	6	49	0	-	-
Cowan	13	3	59	1	-	-
Such	26.3	4	78	1	-	-
SG Law	10	3	28	0	-	-
Grayson	24	5	71	0	-	-
Napier	8	3	40	1	-	-
DR Law	2	0	10	0	-	-

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Essex second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*PJ Prichard	c Metcalfe b Astle	46
DDJ Robinson	c Johnson b Oram	0
MC Ilott	c Oram b Afzaal	33
TP Hodgson	c Oram b Tolley	21
DR Law	c Evans b Afzaal	0
+RJ Rollins	c and b Tolley	42
AP Cowan	b Afzaal	15
GR Napier	not out	4
SG Law	not out	4
AP Grayson	did not bat
PM Such	did not bat
Extras	(4 b, 8 lb, 6 w)	18
Total	(7 wickets, declared, 81 overs)	183
Fall of wickets:
1-2, 2-79, 3-89, 4-90, 5-120, 6-171, 7-173

Nottinghamshire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Bowen	11	4	23	0	-	-
Oram	4	3	2	1	-	-
Johnson	13	5	32	0	-	-
Afzaal	30	10	83	3	-	-
Astle	7	3	10	1	-	-
Tolley	16	5	21	2	-	-

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Notes
--> Essex score at 120 overs in the first innings was 373-5
--> PJ Prichard (1) passed 1000 runs in first-class matches for the season when he reached 8
--> TP Hodgson (1) passed his previous highest score of 15 in first-class matches
--> TP Hodgson (1) passed his previous highest score of 15 in County Championship matches
--> SG Law (1) passed 1000 runs in County Championship matches for the season when he reached 4
--> SG Law (1) passed 1000 runs in first-class matches for the season when he reached 4
--> DR Law (1) passed 1000 runs in County Championship matches when he reached 32
--> GR Napier made his debut in County Championship matches
--> NJ Astle (1) equalled his previous highest score of 100 in County Championship matches
--> NJ Astle (1) passed 2500 runs in first-class matches when he reached 4

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