Essex 2017 (archived)

[Uncle Leo]

I love the idea of day/night fixtures.

Had Surrey or Middlesex been at home today I'd have gone and watched them after work as a neutral.

This opens up the county championship to fans with jobs.

Especially with a progressive pricing policy. Essex CCC just tweeted (so around 5:30pm) that entry today now £10 for adults, £3 for children. That's very fair indeed.

Now, let's drive those Seaxes in to that soft Middle Saxon underbelly...

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

A weird partnership this.

54* off 35 at one end
2* off 25 at the other

 

[mattitouk]

225-8 now, we seem to be ticking along nicely so far.

 

[Shrimper]

Good day so far.

9 down!

 

[mattitouk]

Middlesex 246 all out. :happy:

 

[Blueronron]

Harmer is on fire again, steady start by Amir
64.0 so far going well, we will miss Cookie soon

 

[BrettieAngell]

Harmer is on fire again, steady start by Amir
64.0 so far going well, we will miss Cookie soon

Yeah, its been great having him for what seems like ages!

 

[Shrimper]

106/0 to close the day. Pretty good if I may say so!

 

[mattitouk]

Decent days cricket for Essex. :thumbsup:

Achieving maximum bowling points, taking 7 wickets across the board at a cost of only 14 runs,....well done to Harmer again for his 5 wicket haul.

We finish the day 106 without loss. with Cook making 64 & Browne also approaching his half century. With a good days batting tomorrow, we should hopefully obtain 3 or maybe 4 batting points before the 110 overs, and put us in the driving seat.

Although early days, other results seem to be going quite well for us also, Surrey being 374-6 against Yorkshire, Lancashire being 273 all out & Hampshire declaring for 211.

 

[Blueronron]

Bizarre declaration by Hampshire from 84.0 to 211-9 dec ?

 

[Blueronron]

Hopefully some play at 4.25
Lunch being taken now, sounds so weird at 3.45

Still raining in London though as I look out of the window

 

[Shrimper]

Hope Warwickshire can get something against Lancashire, they're digging in. Don't see any play today but tomorrow looks promising.

 

[Uncle Leo]

As Andy T has been of this thread's main contributors, and as he is unable to post on this one any longer, I'm now going to lock this thread. All chat about Essex CCC to go on a new thread, which will be named accordingly.