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Cricket => Essex Eagles T20 => Topic started by: mawallace on August 30, 2019, 12:43:14 PM
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Again, no change in the squad:-
Essex squad:-
(no change!)
Simon Harmer (11) (Captain)
Mohammad Amir (5)
Aaron Beard (14)
Ravi Bopara (25)
Sam Cook (16)
Cameron Delport (89)
Ryan ten Doeschate (27)
Dan Lawrence (28)
Jamie Porter (44)
Shane Snater (29)
Paul Walter (22)
Tom Westley (21)
Adam Wheater (31) (Wicket-keeper)
Adam Zampa (88)
Kent:-
Sam Billings
Daniel Bell-Drummond
Alex Blake
Mitchell Claydon
Jordan Cox
Zak Crawley
Faf Du Plessis
Fred Klaassen
Heino Khurn
Matt Millnes
Marcus O'Riordan
Imram Qayyum
Ollie Robinson
Hardus Viljoen
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The only satisfaction if we stuff Kent & prevent them qualifying is that we may let Hants in instead, talk about the devil & the deep blue sea!!
At least we ended Sorry's interest last night!!
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Our tie with Hampshire could prove very costly.
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Wow!.....simply, WOW!! This team never ceases to amaze us with what it can produce! How can a team who were SO bad a few weeks ago suddenly transform and somehow against every odds going, scrape through to the next round? :) Huge well done to them and also a big thank you to Glamorgan who win their first and only match of this years competition, just when we needed them to.
Happy days :)
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I looked at the scores a few minutes ago; didn’t believe it. Then looked the other scores. Anything is possible!
Unbelievable!
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K*nt & Kolpacks both out.
I might start to like this T20 lark.
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Trip to Durham. Well I never.
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My dream quarter final. Hang on...where’s it being played again.....
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Good win and sneaked into the quarter finals.
How are we playing Durham who finished 6th in the North group?
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Good win and sneaked into the quarter finals.
How are we playing Durham who finished 6th in the North group?
We're not. We're playing Lanky. Address all questions about the location to the ECB.
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Good win and sneaked into the quarter finals.
How are we playing Durham who finished 6th in the North group?
https://www.espn.co.uk/cricket/story/_/id/27470174/lancashire-shift-home-vitality-blast-quarter-final-chester-le-street
And very well done to the team on making it through. Seemed to coincide with getting the side pretty settled
I assume Amir is not available?
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Good win and sneaked into the quarter finals.
How are we playing Durham who finished 6th in the North group?
We're not. We're playing Lanky. Address all questions about the location to the ECB.
Thanks for clearing that up.
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Wow what an absolutely incredible game & a magnificent achievement to win against the odds & finish 4th (3/4 places higher than I & I suspect many others thought we would). Although we still don't look the finished product the team have really pulled together in the last couple of weeks & most importantly we now have momentum going into the 1/4s. I thought we needed 200 to set Kent a decent target but obviously 190 proved too much as we fought our way back from a match Kent looked like winning at least until their 2nd wicket fell & gradually panic set in as they bottled it (for the 4th match running) in the face of some fine bowling & fielding. Terrific all round display from Ravi again, Delport batted very well & a couple of other solid contributions down the order. The atmosphere in the ground was electric & Kent will wonder how they choked but immense credit to Essex for that display, after 3 postponements that made up for it & how. Certainly arguably the best T20 match I have witnessed in years, come on Essex make us proud again on Weds evening.
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Wow indeed. Having just watched an incredible result of an incredible match at Taunton, and deliberately refrained from checking scores on this match, but relying on updates from Sky, when Nick Knight calmly announced hot off the presses the composition of the last eight, as Sky had not shown the finish of any of the other matches, when I saw the top qtr final as Lancs v Essex Eagles, I think I stopped breathing and was technically in shock for a few seconds.
Even then I thought, have Sky just got this wrong, a monumental mistake, soon to be corrected.
What a night and how I envy all the supporters at Chelmsford tonight.
Not much more I can add which has not already been stated other than to re-emphasise that one can ever write off Essex, or do so at your peril.
Was there anyone genuinely confidant last night that we would qualify? I doubt it very much.
The reason is due to the surprise of the night, with Glamorgan defeating Hampshire, for their first win of the campaign, Hampshire who had thrashed Middlesex by eight wickets the night before, and now Middlesex looking very ragged against Hampshire, rising magnificently to the occasion by out batting a strong Somerset side, in one of the finest T20 matches ever played, with supreme batting skills showcased throughout the match. Magnificent.
A small aside- how will Somerset now feel and react after such a kick in the teeth, as they approach the season climax? Very interesting.
We needed not only to beat Kent, difficult enough, but all other results to go our way, which of course they did. Simply jaw dropping.
The utterly capricious nature of T20 has never been demonstrated better than by tonight’s matches.
Purists decry T20, deriding the swashbuckling immediacy, undermining traditional cricket values of building an innings etc., but what is undeniable is the edge of your seat entertainment T20’s provide, where matches are often decided by a single shot, catch or wicket.
One last point apart from congratulating the spirit shown by the team over the last two weeks in beating Sussex, Surrey and now Kent. Peaking at the right time.
No, what is really interesting now is playing Lancashire on a neutral venue, due to Test Match commitments at Old Trafford.
How will Lancs feel, in what in effect is playing away at a strange ground, and not being rightly rewarded by playing at home?
Long way to travel for our supporters, but for those who cannot make the trip, at least there is the consolation that it is on Sky next Wednesday, the first qtr final.
Momentum is everything in sport. Do we have it?
You bet.
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To think within 24 hours we ended the T20 hopes of Kent, Sorry & Hants - it doesn't come better than that!!
As Reddevil has put it so eloquently T20 can be so dramatic & Middlesex too must be on a real high, the 1/4 finals should be well worth watching & I cannot wait for Weds, the atmosphere last night was like going back 4/5 years to when we were a much better T20 side & the support last night was fantastic. I suspect we are still outsiders overall & certainly for Weds, all we can do is our best & the team have already exceeded most of our expectations so in a sense Weds is a free hit. I just hope Mo can play for us (I'm sure he would love to). Let's hope all the posts on this game are positive - there is no reason for negativity after last night's heroics.
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Lancashire had little choice choosing an alternative to OT but selected Durham because it resembles their own pitch the most. Their side will be packed with spinners and dibbly dobblers. The average score at Durham is around 145. At least Lynda and Steve should be happy having an unexpected game on their doorstep. ;)
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Not happy at all, LeedsExile! We've never been to a T20 match, but would have made an exception for this one: unfortunately, we're having to go over to MIL and FIL in Widnes (both 91, MIL very frail, FIL with vascular dementia) on Tuesday and have a hotel booked for the night as it's too much to drive there and back in the day. SIL, who visits once a week from her home in Stafford, is on a fortnight's holiday, so we're having to do our duty.
Last night was amazing, couldn't believe Glam won their only match of the season. Missed some of the commentary due to 'phone call about a problem at the in-laws: afraid life is like that at the moment.
Lynda and Steve
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Very sorry to hear that Lynda. Hopefully an Essex win will bring some cheer. All the best.
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Yes, Linda and Steve, sorry to hear life is difficult at the moment.
All the best :)
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Thankyou, both. That's life!
Lynda and Steve
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I am really surprised at so few posts on what was a fantastic, and unexpected, end to the Kent game on Fri, it seems to be the same as usual in that when we lose there are more posts than if we win, surely more of the regulars on here were present unless they didn't go for any reason. The emotions & atmosphere experienced in that final half hour were such that I haven't really had in the last 3/4 years of watching Essex in T20 & they will stay with me for a long time,tbh I still have to keep pinching myself that we won.
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I think you'll find most of the regular posters on this forum do not attend 20-20 matches and prefer proper cricket.
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I think you'll find most of the regular posters on this forum do not attend 20-20 matches and prefer proper cricket.
So do I but I also enjoy T20 & RL matches as well, given the choice I dearly want us to win CC again, if we can win the T20 then that would just be a bonus.
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So do I but I also enjoy T20 & RL matches as well, given the choice I dearly want us to win CC again, if we can win the T20 then that would just be a bonus.
When the club were obsessed with T20 to the detriment of everything else I had little time for it.
Now that we're good at proper cricket I'm not averse to a cherry on the cake.
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T20 brings in money. I want my club to remain solvent.
Having heard chapter and verse about the Bury/Bolton saga up here, we need to accept that a professional sport needs to drum up an income.
Without the 40 over game coming in 1969 ECCC would never have won the CC in 1979.
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I’ll get absolutely hammered on here for this, but if you offered me the choice of the T20 or County Championship, I’d pick the T20. Simply because we’ve never won it before and it boils my piss that all our other southern brethren’s have at least one T20 title under their belts. Plus it’s the most popular and well attended form of cricket in the game (like it or not) and to be the champions of the format in a summer such as this one could attract new fans, which is especially important for us with the hundred coming. As long as Harmer and Cook remain, we’ll have more chances of County Championship success over the next few years.
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I’ll get absolutely hammered on here for this, but if you offered me the choice of the T20 or County Championship, I’d pick the T20. Simply because we’ve never won it before and it boils my piss that all our other southern brethren’s have at least one T20 title under their belts. Plus it’s the most popular and well attended form of cricket in the game (like it or not) and to be the champions of the format in a summer such as this one could attract new fans, which is especially important for us with the hundred coming. As long as Harmer and Cook remain, we’ll have more chances of County Championship success over the next few years.
I have my hammer ready...
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I'm greedy. I want both. I love the wham bam thank you ma'am T20 and also love the long comfortable 'ahem' marathon that is championship red ball cricket.
Put a gun to my head and I'd pick the championship of course if forced to choose.
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Championship any day. It is the one trophy that we chased for eight decades without success. Think of all the players we have had pull on the three seaxes: from Johnny Douglas, Perrin and Mcgahey, Smith cousins, Walter Mead, O'connor, Russell, Tom Pearce, Insole, Bailey, Tonker Taylor etc. Guys like Frank Rist coaching and running the 2nd team for nothing. Buying Leyton, selling Leyton and going from outgrounds from Clacton to Southend. Need i go on?
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Championship any day. It is the one trophy that we chased for eight decades without success. Think of all the players we have had pull on the three seaxes: from Johnny Douglas, Perrin and Mcgahey, Smith cousins, Walter Mead, O'connor, Russell, Tom Pearce, Insole, Bailey, Tonker Taylor etc. Guys like Frank Rist coaching and running the 2nd team for nothing. Buying Leyton, selling Leyton and going from outgrounds from Clacton to Southend. Need i go on?
Brings a tear to my eye. Presumably you will return to the nest when you retire?
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Championship any day. It is the one trophy that we chased for eight decades without success. Think of all the players we have had pull on the three seaxes: from Johnny Douglas, Perrin and Mcgahey, Smith cousins, Walter Mead, O'connor, Russell, Tom Pearce, Insole, Bailey, Tonker Taylor etc. Guys like Frank Rist coaching and running the 2nd team for nothing. Buying Leyton, selling Leyton and going from outgrounds from Clacton to Southend. Need i go on?
Brings a tear to my eye. Presumably you will return to the nest when you retire?
Nat, if I could afford it, I'd do it tomorrow...although I'm of the generation not permitted to retire.
Funnily enough typing the list above did make me feel a little emotional. I was of the generation that grew up thinking that we'd win at least one trophy a season (providing GG was in form) so the decline of the 90's and 00's was a reminder of how things were in the past.
Others on here perhaps would see it in even more emotive terms - starting each season knowing your team is going to be trophyless at the end of the season requires a high degree of loyalty.
Indeed, I actually felt (a bit) for Somerset - although with the team they had in the 80's they should've won one CC at least...
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Perhaps we have an age versus youth sentiment here,
No contest - The Championship every time.
Iit is like comparing The Premiership with the Caribou Cup, or whatever it is called.