Essex County Cricket 2011 Season

[MrB]

Not too bad from where we were. Nice to see us with a little lower order batting resistance this season (the sort we normally gift to the oppositions batsmen!).

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Leics 127/2, both openers out, a wicket apiece for Masters and Craddock....

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

154/3 now, Craddock (10-2-23-2) getting the wicket of Taylor:happy:

 

[Funky Kong]

That is great news. Was wondering how this young lad would get on. Not bad. 4 wickets in his first stint of bowling and a couple of wickets in his next game. Give the youth a chance!! That bowling line up looks awfully weak...

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

170/4, Craddock (14-3-33-3) gets rid of McDonald

 

[tottenham541]

wickets are falling at last:smile:

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Leics ended the day on 245/7, 4 wickets for Craddock, 2 for Masters and 1 for Chambers.

Good chance to force a win from here if we can knock the tail over quickly this morning.

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Leics 274 ao, Masters taking all 3 this morning to finish with 23.4-9-67-5. We lead by 48....

 

[canveyshrimper]

Leics 274 ao, Masters taking all 3 this morning to finish with 23.4-9-67-5. We lead by 48....

Essex really need to capitalise on this lead, I would say if they set a target in excess of 300 then it should be a win for us. I'm very interested to see Craddock getting the spinners berth ahead of Phillips who has been excellent in both T20 & 40 Over games. And dood luck to Craddock as he seems to be taking his chance.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Essex really need to capitalise on this lead, I would say if they set a target in excess of 300 then it should be a win for us. I'm very interested to see Craddock getting the spinners berth ahead of Phillips who has been excellent in both T20 & 40 Over games. And dood luck to Craddock as he seems to be taking his chance.

Phillips' bowling in fc has been garbage.

I'm calling a Ravi Bo hundred - although at the rate Westley is going at, he might not get a bat. 23* off 15.

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Essex 55/0 at lunch, Westley 39* off 40 balls, Godleman 15*. Lead is 103

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

Essex 55/0 at lunch, Westley 39* off 40 balls, Godleman 15*. Lead is 103

Good morning for us. All things going well we should have a lead of 300 by the end of the day :unsure:. (here's hoping, at least!) Difficult to know when will be the best time to declare? (trusting we will have that option) ....I suppose it will depend on how well the wicket is playing.

 

[MrB]

86/0 and the lead is 134. Very impressive innings from Westley so far but Godleman's strike rate of 26 isn't helping matters. Hopefully wickets won't be an issue (especially as YB has guaranteed a ton for Ravi) so he needs to up the pace or get out.

 

[MrB]

He upped the pace, good lad :smile:

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

126/1, Westley out for 67. Godleman 47*, Shah 6*. We lead by 174.

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

186/1, pace being picked up now, we've taken 29 runs from the last 20 balls.


Lead is 234, might be trying to get 10 overs at them tonight....

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Ton up for Billy Godleman:happy:

Lead approaching 300. If the pitch is flattening out we might want a 400 lead.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

0100 for Bopara. I think I predicted that.

MtS has hit his first ball for 6!

SR 600.00

 

[The General]

We close on 306-4 as we looked for quick runs...

 

[MrB]

RtD falls after 2 runs from 9 balls, not exactly the charge we were looking for this morning. Though Shah has added runs, I assume we'll let him get his ton and then declare. 367 is the lead.