It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 3 July and 7 September 1985.
[1] The tournament was won by Essex who defeated Nottinghamshire by 1 run in the final at Lord's.
The seventeen first-class counties, were joined by thirteen Minor Counties: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cheshire, Cumberland, Devon, Durham, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Suffolk.
The winners in the second round then progressed to the quarter-final stage.
Durham repeated their feat of 1973, in being a minor county defeating a first class county, when they saw off Derbyshire in round one.