Essex CCC 2018

[The Big Dady]

Essex 1st innings 435 all out
Hampshire innings 172 all out

Hampshire forced to follow on and trail Essex by 263 runs with 10 wickets remaining

 

[Ex-Member1]

2 down following on. COYE

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Cracking effort from Essex to give us a real shot at winning this despite the first day being called off.

3 overs left tonight, would be great to nick one more out.

 

[The Big Dady]

Hampshire 17-2

Close - Hampshire trail Essex by 246 runs with 8 wickets remaining

 

[mattitouk]

Cook has signed a new 3 year contract.

 

[mattitouk]

In less than joyous news, Essex are getting humiliated in Chelmsford, chasing Surrey's 351, we could only muster 126 (actually that score flatters us, i was fearing that it would look a lot worse when we were just 87-8).

Surrey have naturally enforced the follow on, and we are trailing by 225 runs, according to Dick Davies, we could well be facing our first innings defeat since 2013.


Edit: in other news, the Somerset V Lancashire match sounded cracking, it ended in a rare tie. I heard it's the first one in the Championship for 15 years (back in 2003) and only the dozenth time it's happened since cricket resumed after the end of world war 2.

 

[Ex-Member1]

Essex were the last to tie a match (2003 v Warwick's).

 

[mattitouk]

I Did not know that.

I like to think old Dicky didn't mention that part of the stat, due to his Essex county pride!!

In hindsight though, we could have done with a Somerset win, and put a bit of breathing space between ourselves and the teams below us, in case we implode further.

 

[Ex-Member1]

Innings defeat imminent. Still not out of relegation mire it would seem. Fingers crossed for one more win I reckon. COYE

 

[Ex-Member1]

Thanks to Ravi we avoided the ignominy of an innings defeat.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Innings defeat imminent. Still not out of relegation mire it would seem. Fingers crossed for one more win I reckon. COYE

Oh ye of little faith....

 

[Ex-Member1]

Get in!!! Still need 2 to win (after tea would you believe?)

 

[tottenham541]

Do you think we are in with a chance ?

 

[Ex-Member1]

No!

 

[Ricky Otto]

Peter Siddle signed for 2 more seasons, happy with that, we really missed him when we had Wagner in for the middle part of the season.
A little sad to see Zaidi go, hope we have a plan and targets for white ball cricket next year

 

[Shrimper]

Essex collapsing again, happens way to often

 

[Ex-Member1]

Low scoring match it seems, a small lead may be enough.

 

[tia]

Started second innings well and got ourselves into a decent position so hopefully we can finish the job today

 

[Ex-Member1]

We couldn't lose it from here.......could we! COYE

 

[ESG]

100 to Murali Vijay