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The Essex CCC Thread
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Matt the Shrimp
aka Harry Potter
Crikey - we're a bit behind here. Here's a round-up:
County Championship
The game against Somerset ended up being a draw. Essex made 353 in their first innings - special mention to Godleman for his ton (106) and to David Masters for his 38-ball half-century. Somerset were very handily placed on 100/0 in their second innings (a lead of 134) when the rain closed in for the rest of the match. Match Drawn - 10 pts to each side
In Scarborough, the Coldplay frontman yesterday started his first game for Essex, sharing the new ball with Masters. Yorkshire, sadly, made a very good start, finishing day 1 on 313-3, with Anthony McGrath unbeaten overnight on 112 (he has since fallen this morning without adding to his score) - McGrath's cause helped by being dropped twice in the field. Poor show. Yorkshire are now 374-4, with Gale unbeaten on 126.
We're currently 4th in the table on 43 points, although we've played a game more than most other sides.
Clydesdale Bank 40
Essex recorded their first win in the competition away at Derbyshire thanks to another magnificent display from RtD, this time with the bat. He scored a 59-ball ton - the quickest first class century so far in England this year - including 7 sixes and 5 fours. His 109 helped swing back a batting reply in which Essex had started very poorly, with Cook departing in the second over and Pettini not long after, to leave us 27-3. We were 64-4 when RtD came in, but he led us to a D/L revised total (and a pretty steep one at that) of 248 in 30 ov in response to Derbyshire's 299/7 after 40. We got to 248/5 off only 27.2 ov - a superb display.
Our win at Leek on BH Monday (Derbyshire's first game there for 18 years) made up for our humping at home by Yorkshire (233/0 off 35.5 ov in response to our 232/9 off 40) on Sunday 25th, and the wash-out last Sunday at Lord's, without a ball being bowled.
We're currently 3rd in Group B, but with a negative run-rate after that thrashing at Chelmsford, so we'll do well to pull it round from here - in this competition, only the three group winners plus the one runner-up with the best points total & net run-rate make it through to the semis.
County Championship
The game against Somerset ended up being a draw. Essex made 353 in their first innings - special mention to Godleman for his ton (106) and to David Masters for his 38-ball half-century. Somerset were very handily placed on 100/0 in their second innings (a lead of 134) when the rain closed in for the rest of the match. Match Drawn - 10 pts to each side
In Scarborough, the Coldplay frontman yesterday started his first game for Essex, sharing the new ball with Masters. Yorkshire, sadly, made a very good start, finishing day 1 on 313-3, with Anthony McGrath unbeaten overnight on 112 (he has since fallen this morning without adding to his score) - McGrath's cause helped by being dropped twice in the field. Poor show. Yorkshire are now 374-4, with Gale unbeaten on 126.
We're currently 4th in the table on 43 points, although we've played a game more than most other sides.
Clydesdale Bank 40
Essex recorded their first win in the competition away at Derbyshire thanks to another magnificent display from RtD, this time with the bat. He scored a 59-ball ton - the quickest first class century so far in England this year - including 7 sixes and 5 fours. His 109 helped swing back a batting reply in which Essex had started very poorly, with Cook departing in the second over and Pettini not long after, to leave us 27-3. We were 64-4 when RtD came in, but he led us to a D/L revised total (and a pretty steep one at that) of 248 in 30 ov in response to Derbyshire's 299/7 after 40. We got to 248/5 off only 27.2 ov - a superb display.
Our win at Leek on BH Monday (Derbyshire's first game there for 18 years) made up for our humping at home by Yorkshire (233/0 off 35.5 ov in response to our 232/9 off 40) on Sunday 25th, and the wash-out last Sunday at Lord's, without a ball being bowled.
We're currently 3rd in Group B, but with a negative run-rate after that thrashing at Chelmsford, so we'll do well to pull it round from here - in this competition, only the three group winners plus the one runner-up with the best points total & net run-rate make it through to the semis.
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southend4ever
I used to play a little.
Currently chasing a red ball around at Yorkshire. Draw is best hope!
Yorkshire 378-4.
Yorkshire 378-4.
southend4ever
I used to play a little.
398 - 5
james foster stumping off tim phillips. gale gone for 135
james foster stumping off tim phillips. gale gone for 135
Matt the Shrimp
aka Harry Potter
Oh dear. Yorkshire - 516 all out. Essex 111/4.
Cook has flopped again. Pettini & Foster in. Blimey, if we ever needed a captain's innings from him - 256 runs short of avoiding the follow-on - it's now...
Cook has flopped again. Pettini & Foster in. Blimey, if we ever needed a captain's innings from him - 256 runs short of avoiding the follow-on - it's now...
Cook hasn't flopped as many times as Bell, Trott and another one of the test specialists. Cook's only had 5 innings. Someone like Trott is averaging less after substantially more innings.
Matt the Shrimp
aka Harry Potter
Don't get me wrong, Matt - I really rate Cook. I think he's the bees knees. But he's in a wretched run of form - he's already out for 10 in our second innings, following on.
Yorks 516
Essex 206 & 37/2 (f/o)
Not good.
southend4ever
I used to play a little.
Cook has had a shocking start to the season. Goochy, work your magic!
Matt the Shrimp
aka Harry Potter
Yorkshire win by an innings & 96. Grim.
Yorks 516
Essex 206 & 214
No Essex player even made a half century; the two highest scores were made - perhaps very unexpectedly - by Pettini, with a 47 and a 44.
Yorkshire 23 points, Essex 2 points.
:(
Yorks 516
Essex 206 & 214
No Essex player even made a half century; the two highest scores were made - perhaps very unexpectedly - by Pettini, with a 47 and a 44.
Yorkshire 23 points, Essex 2 points.
:(
I'm a little bit more concerned about his form following that second innings dismissal.
These figures will be out of date now, but as of yesterday
Ian Bell - 7 innings - 178 runs @ 29.66 - HS 54
Alistair Cook - 5 innings - 145 runs @ 29.00 - HS 50
Jonathan Trott - 6 innings - 168 runs @ 28.00 - HS 88
Andrew Strauss - 9 innings - 226 runs @ 25.11 - HS 69
southend4ever
I used to play a little.
I noticed that the Warwicks boys were not doing too well! There a couple of others Troughton and someone else who have been talked about by England in the last few years.
Unfortunately cricket doesn't involve lots of transfers or loans because Essex desperately need them. We need Ravi back and Cooky firing on all cylinders but he will be off on Test match duty soon.
Worrying times that we have no firepower in our bowling attack and so many of our batting line up are unproven and have not done it at division 1 level.
Good luck to the boys though.
Unfortunately cricket doesn't involve lots of transfers or loans because Essex desperately need them. We need Ravi back and Cooky firing on all cylinders but he will be off on Test match duty soon.
Worrying times that we have no firepower in our bowling attack and so many of our batting line up are unproven and have not done it at division 1 level.
Good luck to the boys though.
Matt the Shrimp
aka Harry Potter
I wouldn't say that the county rivalries in cricket are anything like the footy rivalries. In terms of "grudge" games, perhaps only Lancs v. Yorks and Glamorgan v. Gloucestershire have anything like a sort of "grudge" element to them.
I certainly don't think we have any sort of ill-feeling with Kent - unless Jonny Stokes is loitering on this thread, whereupon they do become the "scum".
;)
As for recent matches, an enormous "hats off" to Grant Flower for a quite extraordinary performance in our Clydesdale 40 match against Gloucestershire. He scored 116 off 103 balls with the bat, and then promptly sent down 7 overs for a very impressive 2/32.
Indeed, it was a solid all-round performance - RtD chipped in 84 off only 53 balls; Tim Phillips picked up 4/37 off his 7.3 ov to bowl Gloucestershire all out for 225 in 37.3 overs, wrapping up the game with two-and-a-half overs and 42 runs still in the tank. A pretty dominating performance, all told. Just a shame that, overall, we batted so poorly - 4 ducks, a further 3 single-figure scores and one 10 in our innings of 267 - leaving all the run-scoring to Cook (who got 37 off 47 - thank goodness he was back among the runs), RtD and Flower.
That now leaves us second in the table - but given that we've played a lot more than the teams below us and have a still pretty mediocre NRR, I can't see us progressing in this competition.
Special mention for Gloucs's David Payne, a 19 year-old left-arm seamer, who picked up 7/29 - including 4 wickets with the first four balls of the 40th over of the Essex innings. There was also a run-out on the last ball of the innings... what a mental over that was!
* * *
As for the game against Kent, they are currently 66/2 (Geraint Jones having a good knock, I see - 43 off 57). I also see that the Coldplay frontman no longer appears to be playing for us... but that Danish Kaneria is now with us (hooray!).
Incidentally, if anyone is in the Chelmsford area and at a loose end... go along to the game. Next man in for Kent is Sam Northeast, a very young batsman whom I've seen bat at Lord's a couple of times and who, in my view, is a very exciting prospect indeed. He could go all the way to the England test side. I'd like to see how he does against a county bowling attack...
Matt
I certainly don't think we have any sort of ill-feeling with Kent - unless Jonny Stokes is loitering on this thread, whereupon they do become the "scum".
;)
As for recent matches, an enormous "hats off" to Grant Flower for a quite extraordinary performance in our Clydesdale 40 match against Gloucestershire. He scored 116 off 103 balls with the bat, and then promptly sent down 7 overs for a very impressive 2/32.
Indeed, it was a solid all-round performance - RtD chipped in 84 off only 53 balls; Tim Phillips picked up 4/37 off his 7.3 ov to bowl Gloucestershire all out for 225 in 37.3 overs, wrapping up the game with two-and-a-half overs and 42 runs still in the tank. A pretty dominating performance, all told. Just a shame that, overall, we batted so poorly - 4 ducks, a further 3 single-figure scores and one 10 in our innings of 267 - leaving all the run-scoring to Cook (who got 37 off 47 - thank goodness he was back among the runs), RtD and Flower.
That now leaves us second in the table - but given that we've played a lot more than the teams below us and have a still pretty mediocre NRR, I can't see us progressing in this competition.
Special mention for Gloucs's David Payne, a 19 year-old left-arm seamer, who picked up 7/29 - including 4 wickets with the first four balls of the 40th over of the Essex innings. There was also a run-out on the last ball of the innings... what a mental over that was!
* * *
As for the game against Kent, they are currently 66/2 (Geraint Jones having a good knock, I see - 43 off 57). I also see that the Coldplay frontman no longer appears to be playing for us... but that Danish Kaneria is now with us (hooray!).
Incidentally, if anyone is in the Chelmsford area and at a loose end... go along to the game. Next man in for Kent is Sam Northeast, a very young batsman whom I've seen bat at Lord's a couple of times and who, in my view, is a very exciting prospect indeed. He could go all the way to the England test side. I'd like to see how he does against a county bowling attack...
Matt
southend4ever
I used to play a little.
Kent are big time rivals! Although rivalry in cricket is limited in these parts.
canveyshrimper
R.I.P
Essex chasing 338 to win having bowled Kent out for 204 are 176/4, it looks like a draw, but our walking wicket of a captain is at the crease. A possible turning of the corner for Alastair Cook who scored 72.
Matt the Shrimp
aka Harry Potter
There's probably not enough time left for us to get the runs, H. Close of play is 6pm, so there's - at most - perhaps another 20 ov left in the match. That's enough time for K*nt to pick up our remaining 6 wickets, but unless we switch into T20 mode (we're currently bobbling along at 3.4 runs/ov), there's no way we'll make the 153 runs still required for victory.
Odds-on the draw, surely.
I see Northeast top-scored in K*nt's second innings as well - 71 out of their 204. As I'll keep saying until the cows come home... watch out for him - he's mustard. That said, Tom Westley has had a really excellent start to the season so far as well...
Matt
Matt the Shrimp
aka Harry Potter
I saw that, H. Scant consolation, perhaps, but (a) at least it relates to last season; and (b) spot fixing somehow doesn't feel quite as bad as match fixing, as offences go.
I see that our 2nd XI fairly comfortably beat the Bangladeshis...
I see that our 2nd XI fairly comfortably beat the Bangladeshis...
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