2021 Team

[Valentines Park]

We haven’t had an even half decent t20 side since Grayson left.  We’ve won 3 home matches since the start of 2018.

VP will have a cardiac reading that 🤣

A chuckle more like.

The club always flattered to deceive in that era.

Where is Larry these days?

Must be a PE teacher by now.

[JasonP]

We haven’t had an even half decent t20 side since Grayson left.  We’ve won 3 home matches since the start of 2018.

VP will have a cardiac reading that 🤣

A chuckle more like.

The club always flattered to deceive in that era.

Where is Larry these days?

Must be a PE teacher by now.

We were a good side until the quarter finals!

He is batting coach at Yorkshire, I think.  He certainly was until recently.

[dazedpenguin]

Team for Kent match. Better batting lineup, with no Westley which is interesting:

Wheater (wckt)
Buttleman
Lawrence
Pepper
Neesham
Ten Doeschate
Walter
Harmer
Nijjar
Plom
Cook

[JasonP]

Team for Kent match. Better batting lineup, with no Westley which is interesting:

Wheater (wckt)
Buttleman
Lawrence
Pepper
Neesham
Ten Doeschate
Walter
Harmer
Nijjar
Plom
Cook

If he hadn’t have been run out in the Hampshire match when going well we would probably have won that game.  Interesting to drop him so soon after that.  Not much difference between a lot of the batsman to be honest.  Apart from Lawrence and Neesham the others are all very droppable.  It certainly looks a much better balanced side with 7 batsman.
Pretty surprised about Porter being left out.  With these weather conditions we are having I would have thought Nijjar would have been more expendable.

[Perov]

Wheater missed stumping and looking untidy from throw ins.

[vim]

What rotten fielding after being dropped by someone six rows back they hit it to someone in the gardens outside the ground to see if they could do better.

[Reddevil]

If ever one wanted a barometer of a side’s confidence, then that surely is today with Essex winning the toss and inserting.

Weather conditions may have prompted this, but I now see Kent well over 200 for the loss of only three wickets, with an over to go.

Brace yourself lads for further humiliation.

Anybody that crossed the QE 2 bridge to support Essex has my deepest sympathy. They are either suffering from cabin fever or a severe case of delusion thinking they were going to support a team who actually cared a fig about T20.

Some  contributers  might  remember that I live in Hampshire now but support my beloved Essex from afar.

Given the ever quickening decline in not only the performances of the club over recent years, reflecting truly shocking administration of the running of the club, is it about time that some steps should be taken to arrest this situation and that members propose a vote of no confidence, something that may just jolt principal officers and committee members into the realities of now.

How long can we tolerate this sleepwalk to anonymity and derision.

Opponents must be queuing up to play us.

Oh for a miracle of Lawrence scoring a ton and another most unlikely win.

Sadly I can’t dream forever.

[vim]

Anyone still watching? I am as I will not be detained long.

Anyone not going to bother with the future T20 matches?

Anyone set up a rule that the match pack goes straight to the junk folder?

[dazedpenguin]

Well I thought this was probably the strongest side Essex could put out from the current squad (we can argue about Chopra). Just so depressing.

What this team wouldn't give for Napier, Ravi or Foster. Even Cameron Delport.

Not hard to imagine many more games like this one this season.

[nat]

Well I thought this was probably the strongest side Essex could put out from the current squad (we can argue about Chopra). Just so depressing.

What this team wouldn't give for Napier, Ravi or Foster. Even Cameron Delport.

I can see many more games like this one this season.

Men vs Boys

[Perov]

Latest sighting of Chopra, at the top of Ben Nevis.
Is he on holiday, AWOL, or no longer required?
Strange situation in mid season.

[jwb2]

Only seven wicket takers. They must be queuing up to bowl at us for now.

[bwildered]

 Squeezed a 68 run defeat. Difference between the two sides, batting, bowling and fielding, plus six hit count.
Won the toss, and downhill thereafter.

[oldhasbeen]

I'm feeling rather glad I went out this afternoon instead of watching the game. It sounds embarrassing.

Whereas in the red ball game, with two or three good signings to replace departing players, we could be serious contenders again, in T20 we need major surgery. Or should that be butchery?

[mawallace]

Umm - I think I could have arrived at this conclusion 

https://www.essexcricket.org.uk/2021/06/21/match-preview-surrey-v-essex-eagles/

“At the moment, we are either not batting well or not bowling well and are not putting it together.

“It’s not going well at the moment and we’ve lost four in a row apart from the rained-off game but it’s only the guys in the dressing room that can change things around.

“We’ve had five or six excellent years and the Essex fans have been spoilt for trophies but at the moment we are in a little trough, which can happen now and again, and we need everyone to get behind us.