| a15945 | |
| Venue | County Ground, Chelmsford on 18th June 2004 (50-over match) (day/night) | 
| Balls per over | 6 | 
| Toss | New Zealanders won the toss and decided to field | 
| Result | New Zealanders won by 5 wickets | 
| Umpires | RK Illingworth, JF Steele | 
| Scorers | AE Choat (New Zealanders), DJ Norris (Essex) | 
| Essex innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| WI Jefferson | c Hopkins b Tuffey | 14 | 21 | 30 | 3 | - | 66.67 | 
| A Habib | lbw b Oram | 42 | 61 | 77 | 8 | - | 68.85 | 
| AP Grayson | run out | 57 | 85 | 96 | 5 | - | 67.06 | 
| *RC Irani | not out | 72 | 92 | 113 | 6 | - | 78.26 | 
| RS Bopara | not out | 40 | 47 | 63 | 3 | - | 85.11 | 
| +ML Pettini | did not bat | ||||||
| JD Middlebrook | did not bat | ||||||
| AP Cowan | did not bat | ||||||
| RN ten Doeschate | did not bat | ||||||
| AJ Clarke | did not bat | ||||||
| SA Brant | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 lb, 6 nb, 9 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 243 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-27 (Jefferson), 2-74 (Habib), 3-143 (Grayson) | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ | 
| Tuffey | 9 | 1 | 38 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 4.22 | 
| Butler | 8 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 2 | 3 | - | 6.00 | 
| Cairns | 8 | 0 | 40 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 5.00 | 
| Oram | 10 | 1 | 51 | 1 | - | 1 | 60.00 | 5.10 | 
| Harris | 9 | 1 | 41 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 4.56 | 
| Styris | 6 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 3.67 | 
| New Zealanders innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *SP Fleming | c Pettini b Brant | 2 | 3 | 5 | - | - | 66.67 | 
| NJ Astle | b ten Doeschate | 41 | 51 | 66 | 4 | 1 | 80.39 | 
| HJH Marshall | b Clarke | 111 | 97 | 128 | 15 | - | 114.43 | 
| SB Styris | b Bopara | 5 | 6 | 13 | 1 | - | 83.33 | 
| CD McMillan | not out | 52 | 56 | 77 | 6 | - | 92.86 | 
| JDP Oram | b Cowan | 4 | 12 | 9 | 1 | - | 33.33 | 
| CL Cairns | not out | 19 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 237.50 | 
| CZ Harris | did not bat | ||||||
| +GJ Hopkins | did not bat | ||||||
| DR Tuffey | did not bat | ||||||
| IG Butler | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 2 nb, 8 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 38.3 overs) | 246 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5 (Fleming), 2-98 (Astle), 3-125 (Styris), 4-207 (Marshall), 5-213 (Oram) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ | 
| Cowan | 9 | 0 | 56 | 1 | 3 | - | 54.00 | 6.22 | 
| Brant | 7 | 0 | 43 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 6.14 | 
| Clarke | 10 | 0 | 51 | 1 | 2 | - | 60.00 | 5.10 | 
| ten Doeschate | 7.3 | 0 | 68 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 45.00 | 9.07 | 
| Bopara | 5 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 5.20 |