Gillette Cup Final, 1976
Lancashire v Northamptonshire
Lord's Cricket Ground, London
4 September 1976

Result: Northamptonshire won by 4 wickets

Toss: Lancashire
Umpires: HD Bird and AE Fagg
Scorers: GM Taylor and J Mercer

Man of the Match: P Willey

Lancashire innings
B Wood                retired hurt                         14
+FM Engineer                              b Dye             0
H Pilling             c Cook              b Sarfraz Nawaz   3
FC Hayes                              c & b Hodgson        19
*D Lloyd                                  b Bedi           48
J Abrahams                                b Bedi           46
DP Hughes             not out                              39
J Simmons                                 b Sarfraz Nawaz   1
RM Ratcliffe          c Larkins           b Bedi            4
P Lever               not out                               8
Extras                (b 1, lb 9, w 2, nb 1)               13
TOTAL                 (for 7 wickets, 60 overs)           195

DNB: PG Lee.

FoW: 1-0, 2-17, 3-45, 4-140, 5-143,
     6-148, 7-157.

Bowling           O      M        R      W
Sarfraz Nawaz    12      2       39      2
Dye               7      3        9      1
Hodgson           6      3       10      1
Larkins          12      4       31      0
Willey           12      2       41      0
Bedi             11      0       52      3

Northamptonshire innings
RT Virgin                             c & b Ratcliffe      53
P Willey              c Engineer          b Lee            65
*Mushtaq Mohammad     c Hayes             b Ratcliffe      13
DS Steele             c sub               b Hughes         24
W Larkins             lbw                 b Lever           8
G Cook                c Engineer          b Lee            15
+G Sharp              not out                              10
Sarfraz Nawaz         not out                               3
Extras                (b 5, lb 1, nb 2)                     8
TOTAL                 (for 6 wickets, 58.1 overs)         199

DNB: A Hodgson, BS Bedi, JCJ Dye.

FoW: 1-103, 2-127, 3-143, 4-154, 5-178,
     6-182.

Bowling          O       M       R       W
Lever           12       3      29       1
Lee             12       4      29       2
Simmons         11.1     2      29       0
Ratcliffe       12       2      48       2
Hughes          11       0      56       1

• Man of the Match Adjudicator: MC Cowdrey

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