Essex CCC 2019

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Another good knock from him tonight, 41 off 27 balls. Essex 189/6 off 20.

Need Hants to lose at Glamorgan, and Glam have racked up 215 in their 20 overs

 

[tottenham541]

Could do with a couple of early wickets now.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Could do with a couple of early wickets now.

Well there's one!

 

[tottenham541]

Well there's one!

60-1 need more please.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Own up, which one of you was that?

 

[Ex-Member1]

Just watched cracking win by 12 runs, Amir and Porter cleaned up.

 

[cerbera45]

Decent spell from Bopara too.

 

[Grayson]

A little bit cruel to say this given he's carried Essex for 2 years in this format, but Chopra cannot be the future in T20.

We have too many batsmen with strike rates of around 120. Only Tendo is a strong hitter and moving him to 4 is a positive step. Delport is a good signing given he scores at a quicker strike rate than most of our players. He should open with Lawrence, who has the most potential upside with a good SR, has all the shots and should benefit from having the field up in the first 6. I know he had a small stint at the top and failed a couple of years ago, but we should back him. We only need to look at the likes of Phil Salt and Tom Banton to see what talented kids can do with a run.

Ravi should be treated as the bowling all-rounder he now is in T20 but we lack other high SR options and need to play a WK, so we haven't any option but to bat him at 5-6. The less said about the bowling attack in this format, the better.

Short story: The balance of the T20 team needs a lot of fixing.

Trumpet blowing here but they dropped Chopra and moved Ravi to 6. Look what happened. Only slight deviation on the plan was that Westley opened and not Lawrence, but the latter has benefited greatly batting in the top 4.

We face the best side in it in the quarter final, but some effort to get there and I didn't see that coming. Hopefully neutral venue will be a leveller.

Kent absolutely gargled this. Won first 5 games so only needed 5 more points from 9 games to qualify. Two rain offs contribued 2 points and they still didn't get there. Brilliant.

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

Wednesday live on SKY I imagine. Look forward to that.

 

[tia]

Wednesday live on SKY I imagine. Look forward to that.

Be a tough game but just glad we are in last 8.Really enjoyed last nights game and shutting up Kent always a good thing.One of their fans a very vocal Jeremy Corbyn lookalike was certainly quieter at the end of the game

 

[cerbera45]

Be a tough game but just glad we are in last 8.Really enjoyed last nights game and shutting up Kent always a good thing.One of their fans a very vocal Jeremy Corbyn lookalike was certainly quieter at the end of the game

Or listening to Rob Key banging on about Zak Crawley.

 

[Ricky Otto]

Our quarter final is on Sky tonight but with no Amir I'm not very hopeful. I think we'll be replacing 4 overs of top class bowling with below average. Reckon we'll have to play both Porter and Beard and they really do go for runs in t20. Hope we are working on getting an overseas replacement for the championship and that is the reason we haven't bothered to replace Amir in the blast

 

[tia]

Decent start for us

 

[tia]

160 for us looks a lot to get

 

[Blueronron]

I’m confident and would be happy to chase that score

 

[tia]

Rain stopped play.Hopefully wont be for too long

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I’m confident and would be happy to chase that score

I'm less confident. Think this is a low scoring pitch. That looks a match winning score (unless the rain doesn't stop).

 

[The Big Dady]

Essex 35-1 off 5 overs

If rain stops play under DL I think Essex win.

 

[Blueronron]

2 runs a head DL after 10 overs

 

[tia]

Going well come on Essex!