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| Venue | County Ground, Chelmsford on 30th June, 1st, 2nd July 1990 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealanders won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | PJ Eele, KE Palmer |
| Scorers | PN Culpan (New Zealanders), CF Driver (Essex) |
| Close of play day 1 | New Zealanders (1) 388/4 (MD Crowe 123*, JJ Crowe 9*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Essex (1) 306/2 (Stephenson 107*, Waugh 55*) |
| Player of the Match | JG Wright |
| New Zealanders first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| TJ Franklin | c Gooch b Topley | 74 | 118 | 146 | 12 | - | |
| *JG Wright | lbw b Childs | 121 | 146 | 178 | 21 | - | |
| AH Jones | c Garnham b Topley | 3 | 13 | 15 | - | - | |
| MD Crowe | not out | 123 | 175 | 179 | 17 | 2 | |
| KR Rutherford | st Garnham b Stephenson | 42 | 95 | 116 | 6 | - | |
| JJ Crowe | not out | 9 | 30 | 44 | 1 | - | |
| +AC Parore | did not bat | ||||||
| MW Priest | did not bat | ||||||
| SA Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| C Pringle | did not bat | ||||||
| DK Morrison | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 3 lb, 10 nb, 1 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, declared, 94 overs) | 388 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-169, 2-180, 3-205, 4-322 | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Andrew | 14 | 3 | 45 | 0 | - | - | |
| Pringle | 9 | 4 | 25 | 0 | - | - | |
| Thomas | 16 | 3 | 76 | 0 | - | - | |
| Topley | 12 | 2 | 57 | 2 | - | - | |
| Childs | 23 | 6 | 76 | 1 | - | - | |
| Hussain | 7 | 1 | 28 | 0 | - | - | |
| Waugh | 5 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | |
| Stephenson | 8 | 0 | 52 | 1 | - | - | |
| Essex first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *GA Gooch | retired hurt | 102 | 114 | 146 | 16 | 1 | |
| JP Stephenson | c Thomson b Priest | 147 | 332 | 426 | 20 | 3 | |
| PJ Prichard | c MD Crowe b Priest | 15 | 43 | 46 | 2 | - | |
| N Hussain | c MD Crowe b Jones | 1 | 17 | 16 | - | - | |
| ME Waugh | c Priest b Pringle | 63 | 103 | 118 | 7 | 1 | |
| DR Pringle | c Thomson b Priest | 67 | 129 | 112 | 9 | 1 | |
| +MA Garnham | lbw b Pringle | 0 | 3 | 4 | - | - | |
| TD Topley | not out | 23 | 46 | 46 | 3 | - | |
| KO Thomas | c Priest b Thomson | 2 | 19 | 16 | - | - | |
| SJW Andrew | b Thomson | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| JH Childs | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (25 lb, 3 nb, 1 w) | 29 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 130.4 overs) | 449 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-209, 2-218, 3-315, 4-404, 5-408, 6-438, 7-449, 8-449 (130.4 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Morrison | 19 | 2 | 57 | 0 | - | - | |
| Pringle | 42 | 15 | 103 | 2 | - | - | |
| Thomson | 25.4 | 6 | 84 | 2 | - | - | |
| Priest | 38 | 7 | 155 | 3 | - | - | |
| Jones | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| Rutherford | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | |
| New Zealanders second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JJ Crowe | c Hussain b Topley | 15 | 65 | 78 | 2 | - | |
| +AC Parore | lbw b Pringle | 4 | 9 | 14 | 1 | - | |
| AH Jones | not out | 66 | 129 | 136 | 9 | 1 | |
| KR Rutherford | not out | 40 | 57 | 72 | 7 | - | |
| TJ Franklin | did not bat | ||||||
| *JG Wright | did not bat | ||||||
| MD Crowe | did not bat | ||||||
| MW Priest | did not bat | ||||||
| SA Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| C Pringle | did not bat | ||||||
| DK Morrison | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 12 nb, 2 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 41 overs) | 141 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9, 2-53 | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Andrew | 8 | 1 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Pringle | 6 | 0 | 15 | 1 | - | - | |
| Thomas | 2.2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Topley | 10 | 0 | 45 | 1 | - | - | |
| Childs | 5.4 | 0 | 22 | 0 | - | - | |
| Hussain | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Waugh | 3 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Stephenson | 5 | 1 | 15 | 0 | - | - | |