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| Venue | Castle Park Cricket Ground, Colchester on 10th, 12th, 13th August 1985 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Derbyshire won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Essex won by 36 runs |
| Points | Essex 17 (Batting 1); Derbyshire 4 (Bowling 4) |
| Umpires | DS Thompsett, AGT Whitehead |
| Scorers | CF Driver (Essex), SW Tacey (Derbyshire) |
| Close of play day 1 | No play |
| Close of play day 2 | Derbyshire (1) 1/0 (Anderson 1*, Roberts 0*) |
| Essex first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GA Gooch | b Warner | 43 | 38 | 32 | 8 | - | |
| BR Hardie | c Marples b Newman | 17 | 32 | 50 | 1 | - | |
| PJ Prichard | c Roberts b Warner | 3 | 18 | 24 | - | - | |
| KS McEwan | c Hill b Newman | 26 | 108 | 104 | 1 | - | |
| DR Pringle | lbw b Warner | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| *KWR Fletcher | c Anderson b Miller | 52 | 145 | 184 | 7 | - | |
| AW Lilley | c Marples b Miller | 28 | 40 | 43 | 3 | 1 | |
| +DE East | c Hill b Miller | 2 | 21 | 19 | - | - | |
| NA Foster | c Marples b Warner | 12 | 35 | 30 | - | 1 | |
| JK Lever | c Anderson b Warner | 4 | 6 | 12 | - | - | |
| DL Acfield | not out | 3 | 10 | 6 | - | - | |
| Extras | (4 lb, 5 nb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 257 minutes, 74.4 overs) | 199 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-54 (Gooch), 2-66 (Hardie), 3-66 (Prichard), 4-66 (Pringle), 5-118 (McEwan), 6-163 (Lilley), 7-171 (East), 8-190 (Fletcher), 9-194 (Foster), 10-199 (Lever, 74.4 ov) | |||||||
| Derbyshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Warner | 17.4 | 4 | 51 | 5 | - | - | |
| Newman | 23 | 4 | 75 | 2 | - | 5 | |
| Miller | 27 | 6 | 60 | 3 | - | - | |
| Finney | 6.5 | 3 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Barnett | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | |
| Derbyshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IS Anderson | not out | 1 | 7 | 8 | - | - | |
| B Roberts | not out | 0 | 11 | 8 | - | - | |
| A Hill | did not bat | ||||||
| JE Morris | did not bat | ||||||
| JG Wright | did not bat | ||||||
| *KJ Barnett | did not bat | ||||||
| G Miller | did not bat | ||||||
| PG Newman | did not bat | ||||||
| AE Warner | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ Finney | did not bat | ||||||
| +C Marples | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (no wicket, declared, 8 minutes, 3 overs) | 1 | |||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lever | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| Foster | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | |
| Essex second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BR Hardie | not out | 29 | 31 | 25 | 2 | 1 | |
| AW Lilley | not out | 68 | 36 | 25 | 7 | 4 | |
| GA Gooch | did not bat | ||||||
| PJ Prichard | did not bat | ||||||
| KS McEwan | did not bat | ||||||
| DR Pringle | did not bat | ||||||
| *KWR Fletcher | did not bat | ||||||
| +DE East | did not bat | ||||||
| NA Foster | did not bat | ||||||
| JK Lever | did not bat | ||||||
| DL Acfield | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (no wicket, declared, 25 minutes, 11.1 overs) | 101 | |||||
| Derbyshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wright | 6 | 0 | 42 | 0 | - | - | |
| Morris | 5.1 | 0 | 55 | 0 | - | - | |
| Derbyshire second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| IS Anderson | run out | 39 | 178 | 205 | 3 | - | |
| B Roberts | c Foster b Lever | 38 | 55 | 64 | 5 | - | |
| A Hill | c Pringle b Lever | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| JE Morris | b Foster | 4 | 39 | 38 | 1 | - | |
| JG Wright | c Lever b Acfield | 10 | 19 | 23 | 2 | - | |
| *KJ Barnett | c Fletcher b Acfield | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| G Miller | c Fletcher b Acfield | 105 | 124 | 168 | 16 | - | |
| PG Newman | c Hardie b Acfield | 34 | 84 | 67 | 4 | - | |
| AE Warner | c Prichard b Acfield | 8 | 31 | 35 | - | - | |
| RJ Finney | c Hardie b Acfield | 0 | 25 | 19 | - | - | |
| +C Marples | not out | 12 | 18 | 11 | 1 | 1 | |
| Extras | (7 b, 5 lb, 1 nb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 320 minutes, 95.4 overs) | 263 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-47 (Roberts), 2-47 (Hill), 3-53 (Morris), 4-68 (Wright), 5-68 (Barnett), 6-141 (Anderson), 7-222 (Newman), 8-246 (Miller), 9-249 (Warner), 10-263 (Finney, 95.4 ov) | |||||||
| Essex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Lever | 23 | 7 | 53 | 2 | - | 1 | |
| Foster | 19 | 5 | 81 | 1 | - | - | |
| Acfield | 44.4 | 18 | 81 | 6 | - | - | |
| Pringle | 9 | 0 | 36 | 0 | - | - | |
Notes
--> KWR Fletcher (1) passed 25000 runs in County Championship matches when he reached 51
--> NA Foster (1) passed 1000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 2
--> AW Lilley (2) passed 1500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 44
--> C Marples (2) passed his previous highest score of 10 in First-Class matches
--> C Marples (2) passed his previous highest score of 10 in County Championship matches
--> DL Acfield reached 750 wickets in County Championship matches when he dismissed RJ Finney, his 6th wicket in the Derbyshire second innings
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