page_title: 1982 Benson & Hedges Cup Final
section_title: Summary
hierarchical_section_title: 1982 Benson & Hedges Cup Final / Match / Summary
caption_attribution_description: Joel Garner at the Prime Ministers 11 Cricket match in Canberra 2010.
context_page_description: The 1982 Benson & Hedges Cup Final was a one-day cricket match between Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and Somerset County Cricket Club played on 24 July 1982 at Lord's in London. It was the eleventh final of the Benson & Hedges Cup. Somerset were holders, after beating Surrey in the previous year's final, while Nottinghamshire were making their debut in a one-day final, though they had won the 1981 County Championship.
  After winning the toss, Somerset captain Brian Rose opted to bowl first. Nottinghamshire were bowled out for 130 from 50.1 overs; Basher Hassan and Clive Rice top-scored with 26 and 27 runs respectively. Somerset's Vic Marks and Joel Garner both bowled well, taking five of the wickets between them, but it was suggested that Nottinghamshire failed to cope with the pressure of the occasion. In their response, Somerset only lost one wicket, that of Peter Denning for 22. Afterwards, Peter Roebuck and Viv Richards shared an unbroken century partnership, each making a half-century, to complete a dominant nine-wicket victory with more than twenty overs remaining. Marks was named as man of the match.
context_section_description: The final was played at Lord's on 25 July, and started at 10:45. Somerset captain Rose won the toss and chose to field first in overcast conditions. Joel Garner opened the bowling for Somerset, and after keeping Paul Todd on his back foot during his first over, he bowled him with a yorker in the second over, leaving Nottinghamshire three for one. Tim Robinson and Derek Randall batted through until the seventeenth over, moving the score onto 40 for one, before Robinson was caught at mid-wicket by Viv Richards off the bowling of Colin Dredge for 13. The next over, Randall was bowled for 19, attempting to cut Vic Marks' second delivery, and having lost two wickets without scoring, Nottinghamshire were 40 for three. Basher Hassan and Clive Rice built a partnership, moving the score onto 86, until Rice got out just before lunch. Rice had been targeting the bowling of Marks; he had previously driven him for six, but attacking a similar ball he moved forwards out of his crease to try the same stroke, but was bowled. Hassan was later caught behind off the bowling of Dredge. Garner, whose first spell had been described by The Observer's Scyld Berry as "relatively expensive", claimed two more wickets with yorkers, while Ian Botham and Hallam Moseley each also took a wicket with yorkers. Of Nottinghamshire's final six batsmen, only Richard Hadlee reached double figures, and they were bowled out for 130; the lowest total in a Benson & Hedges Cup final at the time. The journalist Paul Fitzpatrick suggested that Nottinghamshire had been unable "to cope with the occasion or the pressure." Marks was praised by Henry Blofeld of The Guardian for his "subtle variations of pace and flight", while Berry said that he "cleverly exploited [the Nottinghamshire batsmen's] hesitancy by giving far more flight to his off-spin than is customary in a limited-overs game." Marks finished the innings with two wickets, and conceded 24 runs, and Garner took three wickets for 13 runs.
  Peter Denning and Peter Roebuck opened the innings in Somerset's chase. Denning scored 22 runs in a partnership of 27 before getting out in the ninth over, caught behind off the bowling of Mike Hendrick. Richards joined Roebuck, and according to John Woodcock of The Times, began "whacking the ball around as only he can". Nottinghamshire's captain, Rice, was criticised for the use of his bowlers; neither consistently attacking or defending. His overseas all-rounder, Hadlee, had been a doubt for the match, and bowled in obvious discomfort due to his ankle injury. Blofeld praised the bowling of the spinner, Eddie Hemmings, saying that "his lower, flatter trajectory made it almost impossible even for Richards to get at him." Somerset reached their target after 33.1 overs; 131 deliveries remained in the match, making it the shortest one-day final at the time. Both Roebuck and Richards made half-centuries, scoring 53* and 51* respectively. Marks was named as man of the match, the first time a spin bowler had won the accolade in an English domestic one-day final since Norman Gifford during the first, the 1963 Gillette Cup Final.
caption: Joel Garner took three wickets to help bowl Nottinghamshire out for 130 runs, the lowest total in a Benson & Hedges Cup final.
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