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| Venue | Grace Road, Leicester on 15th, 16th, 17th August 1979 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Leicestershire won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Leicestershire 6 (Batting 4, Bowling 2); Derbyshire 5 (Batting 4, Bowling 1) |
| Umpires | R Aspinall, A Jepson |
| Close of play day 1 | Derbyshire (1) 26/0 (Hill 15*, Wright 10*; 16 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | Derbyshire (1) 315/5 innings closed |
| Leicestershire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| B Dudleston | c Tunnicliffe b Wincer | 202 | |||||
| JF Steele | c McLellan b Tunnicliffe | 187 | |||||
| BF Davison | lbw b Tunnicliffe | 3 | |||||
| JC Balderstone | run out | 16 | |||||
| PB Clift | not out | 23 | |||||
| +RW Tolchard | did not bat | ||||||
| J Birkenshaw | did not bat | ||||||
| P Booth | did not bat | ||||||
| K Shuttleworth | did not bat | ||||||
| NGB Cook | did not bat | ||||||
| *K Higgs | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 5 lb, 14 nb) | 23 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, declared, 99.4 overs) | 454 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-390, 2-400, 3-425, 4-454 (99.4 ov) | |||||||
| Derbyshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Tunnicliffe | 23.4 | 3 | 108 | 2 | - | - |
| Wincer | 26 | 2 | 117 | 1 | - | - |
| Walters | 22 | 2 | 80 | 0 | - | - |
| Steele | 5 | 2 | 16 | 0 | - | - |
| Mellor | 18 | 2 | 78 | 0 | - | - |
| Kirsten | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - |
| Barnett | 3 | 0 | 19 | 0 | - | - |
| Derbyshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| A Hill | b Cook | 44 | |||||
| JG Wright | c Higgs b Birkenshaw | 105 | |||||
| *PN Kirsten | not out | 135 | |||||
| DS Steele | c Booth b Birkenshaw | 5 | |||||
| KJ Barnett | run out | 5 | |||||
| AJ Borrington | lbw b Cook | 5 | |||||
| CJ Tunnicliffe | not out | 9 | |||||
| J Walters | did not bat | ||||||
| +AJ McLellan | did not bat | ||||||
| RC Wincer | did not bat | ||||||
| AJ Mellor | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 3 lb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 100 overs) | 315 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-96, 2-238, 3-260, 4-282, 5-304 | |||||||
| Leicestershire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Higgs | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | - | - |
| Booth | 3 | 1 | 14 | 0 | - | - |
| Birkenshaw | 33 | 5 | 98 | 2 | - | - |
| Cook | 35 | 8 | 99 | 2 | - | - |
| Clift | 5 | 1 | 22 | 0 | - | - |
| Shuttleworth | 9 | 1 | 42 | 0 | - | - |
| Balderstone | 5 | 1 | 22 | 0 | - | - |
| Steele | 6 | 4 | 10 | 0 | - | - |
Notes
--> There was no play on the final day.
--> The first innings of the match was limited to 100 overs; the total overs for both teams first innings was limited to 200 overs
--> B Dudleston (1) passed his previous highest score of 172 in first-class matches
--> B Dudleston (1) passed his previous highest score of 172 in County Championship matches
--> B Dudleston (1) passed 10000 runs in County Championship matches when he reached 4
--> B Dudleston (1) passed 13500 runs in first-class matches when he reached 67
--> JF Steele (1) passed 1000 runs in first-class matches for the season when he reached 129
--> JG Wright (1) passed 5000 runs in first-class matches when he reached 16
--> PN Kirsten (1) passed 1000 runs in first-class matches for the season when he reached 108
--> PN Kirsten (1) passed 2000 runs in County Championship matches when he reached 116
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