Format: CricInfo Version 1t

County Championship, 1968
Essex v Hampshire
Chalkwell Park, Westcliff
20,21,22 July 1968

Result: Hampshire won by an innings and 14 runs

Toss: Not known
Umpires: AE Fagg and PB Wight

Close of Play:

Essex 1st innings
G Barker                                 b White               30
MJ Bear               c Lewis            b Shackleton           3
B Ward                c Timms            b Shackleton           0
KWR Fletcher          c Timms            b Cottam              20
BL Irvine             c Turner           b Cottam               9
KD Boyce              c Timms            b Cottam               0
BEA Edmeades          c Jesty            b Shackleton          15
*+B Taylor            c Richards         b Shackleton           5
RNS Hobbs                                b White               10
RE East               lbw                b Shackleton           0
JK Lever              not out                                   0
Extras                (w 1, nb 2)                               3
Total                 (all out, 45.2 overs)                    95

FoW: 1-10, 2-10, 3-35, 4-55, 5-55, 6-79, 7-83, 8-89, 9-95, 10-95.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Shackleton                  20     13     17      5
White                       13.2    1     35      2
Cottam                       7      1     34      3
Jesty                        5      1      6      0

Hampshire 1st innings
BA Richards                              b East               176
BL Reed               lbw                b Boyce                0
RV Lewis              c Irvine           b Lever                7
*RE Marshall          c Hobbs            b Edmeades            60
PJ Sainsbury          not out                                  46
DR Turner             not out                                   6
Extras                (b 1, lb 3, nb 2)                         6
Total                 (4 wickets declared, 84 overs)          301

DNB: TE Jesty, +BSV Timms, D Shackleton, DW White, RMH Cottam.

FoW: 1-6, 2-21, 3-144, 4-288.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Boyce                       21      1    100      1
Lever                       26      2     77      1
Edmeades                    11      3     19      1
East                        19      4     51      1
Hobbs                        7      0     48      0

Essex 2nd innings
G Barker              run out                                  11
MJ Bear               c Lewis            b Shackleton          19
JK Lever              lbw                b White                0
B Ward                                   b White               19
KWR Fletcher          c Timms            b Shackleton          51
BL Irvine             c Richards         b White               53
KD Boyce                                 b White               10
BEA Edmeades          c Timms            b Cottam               3
RNS Hobbs             hit wicket         b Cottam               6
*+B Taylor            c Turner           b Cottam               4
RE East               not out                                   0
Extras                (b 4, lb 4, nb 8)                        16
Total                 (all out, 91.4 overs)                   192

FoW: 1-30, 2-33, 3-33, 4-106, 5-110,
     6-155, 7-162, 8-174, 9-192, 10-192.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Shackleton                  22     13     44      2
White                       27.4   10     61      4
Cottam                      18      8     29      3
Jesty                        5      1     16      0
Sainsbury                   13      8     17      0
Richards                     6      4      9      0

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