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Cricket => Essex Eagles T20 => Topic started by: quincy on August 31, 2019, 10:06:43 AM
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Thinking of going Wednesday on public transport.
Does anyone have any ideas on best places to stay for 10.00PM finish.
Don't know the geography or public transport too well.
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You have no chance by public transport. Don't you know trains and buses pack up around 6 up north?
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Why couldn’t they move that red ball game from Old Trafford for this important T20 match? Typical ECB.
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For hotels in Chester le Street simply google "Chester-Le-Street" and hotels - there is a website with advice about accommodation nearest to the cricket ground.
For transport, google National Rail and input wherever you'll be coming from and "Chester-Le-Street", then follow the links on the website.
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Thanks your help, was hoping for slightly greater insight from our northern supporters. So google it is!!
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I'm sorry, quincy, but I don't know of any accommodation near the ground, nor public transport links, as we always drove to the ground - would have taken us 45 minutes just to get to Darlington station to get a train and we could be there in the car in 50 minutes. Just last week, a friend asked me about accommodation near Durham, which was when I found that the pub/hotel that someone recommended fairly near the ground has reverted to being just a pub/eatery.
Lynda
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I'm sorry, quincy, but I don't know of any accommodation near the ground, nor public transport links, as we always drove to the ground - would have taken us 45 minutes just to get to Darlington station to get a train and we could be there in the car in 50 minutes. Just last week, a friend asked me about accommodation near Durham, which was when I found that the pub/hotel that someone recommended fairly near the ground has reverted to being just a pub/eatery.
Lynda
Thanks Linda,
We've booked into Travelodge in Durham Wed and Thurs nights just in case we need the reserve day.
Decent advance singles there and back on the train so could be worse.
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Glad you got sorted out, quincy.
Lynda
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Decent advance singles there and back on the train so could be worse.
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Do you mind me asking what fares you found ? (And where?) -- all seemed to be £90+ return when I looked
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Decent advance singles there and back on the train so could be worse.
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Do you mind me asking what fares you found ? (And where?) -- all seemed to be £90+ return when I looked
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On Trainline on Sunday. £37.30 each way London to Durham with railcard.
Just looked on there, there's still singles at similar prices ie 37.95 first class at 12.30pm wed. (4 left)
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Thanks Quincy, I'll have a look now
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Essex Squad
Simon Harmer (11) (Captain)
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)
Lancs squad
Dane Vilas (c)
Josh Bohannon
Steven Croft
Alex Davies
James Faulkner
Richard Gleeson
Liam Hurt
Keaton Jennings
Rob Jones
Danny Lamb
Liam Livingstone
Stephen Parry
Saqib Mahmood
Glenn Maxwell
Matt Parkinson
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Should rain prevent play this evening, there is another day set aside tomorrow but curiously play would start again at 7. Sky will be covering the other match by then so you would have thought an afternoon start makes sense. It is not like there is a crowd to consider. May be academic anyway and they play tonight. Just hope no one gets frostbite.
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Just driven back from Widnes: chucking it down most of the way up the M6 and along the A66, as it has done on and off all day. Thinking there would be no play tonight until we got quite close to home, round Bowes/Barnard Castle way and it suddenly stopped - bone dry, so they can't have had any rain today and hope the same further up the A1. Will be with them in spirit whilst watching on our NowTV box.
Lynda and Steve
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I know we were fortunate to qualify for the Q/F but that is no excuse for the Lanky love-fest by those Sky morons Charles Dagnall and Dominic Cork.
I would expect more partisanship from current Lancashire player Graham Onions, but he seems quite neutral in comparison. Sound turned off now.
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I know we were fortunate to qualify for the Q/F but that is no excuse for the Lanky love-fest by those Sky morons Charles Dagnall and Dominic Cork.
I would expect more partisanship from current Lancashire player Graham Onions, but he seems quite neutral in comparison. Sound turned off now.
Agree it is terrible. We also know that Nick Knight dislikes Essex for well known reasons.
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Wheater is really an idiot. Definitely need a new/better keeper-batsman
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Not enough runs, wickets Essex through to the semis .
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Congratulations - great result. Well played Ravi and Tendo.
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Not enough runs, wickets Essex through to the semis .
Hey?
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Wow again just like last Friday, Congratulations to Essex on a fine result & also upsetting the Sky commentators who very clearly didn't want us to win - whatever happened to neutrality? Onions, to be fair, was fair & didn't go over the top. I reckon we will still be rank outsiders on Finals Day but so what! We have now gone 2 stages further than I thought we would, I wish I could go but my money has already been spent on accomodation for 4 days at Taunton the week after, what a final week of the season this could turn out to be!!
A decent bowling performance & I thought we might struggle a bit especially with early wickets going & Delport holing out when he didn't need to , he did ensure we kept up with the DLS rate though, when Lawrence was out to another unnecessary skier I did wonder if we might blow it but Ravi & Tendo batted superbly to see us home, poor decision from Lancs to give Livingstone over no 19 when Mahmood should have bowled it.
Such a shame seeing such a poor crowd but blame the ECB for poor fixture planning, credit to the diehard fans who went & can only guess what the atmosphere is like in our Pavilion tonight.
COYE.
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The worst bowling decision I’ve seen in a long time that. Cheers Lancs! Superb from Tendo and Rav. For anyone wondering, a couple of tickets are available on the official site. Just picked one up for £100 bang on.
If we can get Amir back and avoid Middlesex until the final,, then we have a proper chance. Momentum is with us.
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Another amazing match - well done Essex!
How did Lancs throw that away ....
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Well done the team. Bopara very good at the end. Just spoke to my mate who was there and he and the small band of Essex fans are ecstatic.
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Congrats , the Eagles are soaring.
Great team performance, Sky commentators in convicing themselves the Lightning had enough runs, umpires for keeping the game progressing and the captain afterwards keeping a straight face during interview when the 19th over was mentioned.
The experience of RTD and Ravi was invaluable at the end.
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We thought we'd done well to get this far, so if Essex lost we'd just be pleased about getting to the quarter finals. Was worth the week pass to Sky (thought we'd better cover our options in case they had to use the fall-back day) and we listened to Dick Davies and Paul Newton on BBC Essex rather than the Sky commentators - and glad we did, from what other posters have said.
Any chance we might get the afternoon slot on finals day?
Lynda and Steve
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Well done the team! Lord know what the thinking was bowling Livingstone in the 19th over. They knew that we would go for it then and they ended up with Mahmood only bowling two overs. Not our problem, though
A lot to be said for a settled line up and real team spirit
Like others I thought we'd lost any chance of making the quarters so this is a real bonus.
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I assume Delport won't be available for the finals day given his CPL commitments? And I guess Amir won't be available either? I know it's a hard ask but we really could do with an overseas who could play in the championship run in and this! Or are we going with what we've got in both competitions?
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I assume Delport won't be available for the finals day given his CPL commitments? And I guess Amir won't be available either? I know it's a hard ask but we really could do with an overseas who could play in the championship run in and this! Or are we going with what we've got in both competitions?
I don't know whether it is true or not but I've seen a suggestion that you can't bring a new overseas player in just for finals day. They have to have played in the qualifying stages. Maybe brought in because of Bravo.
Someone will be along who knows the rules better than I do, anyway!
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I assume Delport won't be available for the finals day given his CPL commitments? And I guess Amir won't be available either? I know it's a hard ask but we really could do with an overseas who could play in the championship run in and this! Or are we going with what we've got in both competitions?
Delport is available. I would think Zampa and Amir probably wouldn't be.
https://www.essexcricket.org.uk/2018/12/19/cameron-delport-joins-the-eagles-for-vitality-blast-campaigns/
The 29-year-old will join the Eagles for a two-year stint from 1 July and will be available for Finals Day at Edgbaston on 21 September, should Essex advance that far into the competition
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I think this suggests Zampa will be available. "The whole campagn"
https://www.essexcricket.org.uk/teams/first-xi/player-profiles/adam-zampa/
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You have to take the players’ opinions into account. No way Zampa is going to want to leave now without playing finals day.
Amir is the key. He’s currently at a mandatory training camp preparing for Pakistan’s ODI series that starts on the 27th. Can we persuade the PCB to give him Friday/Saturday/Sunday off to play for us. They are notorious c**ts so I doubt it, but we have to try. Amir will obviously want to play, he was watching the game on a dodgy stream with his family so he’s invested in us!
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Very good report Ilford Eagle. Sounds as if you were there, braving the elements.
Those plucky few fans encountering all sorts of hurdles, will certainly have thought it all worth it. Could not be more pleased for them.
Don’t you just love biased pundits getting it so wrong, especially on Sky for all to see.
I would agree on paper, Lancs looked stronger side, having won their group very convincingly.
However paper does not win matches, momentum and experience does.
A very important toss to win, and despite the Davies-Vilas stand, we never let them get completely away, by taking wickets regularly, but the target still looked challenging.
Fair to say, that we had the rub of the green, hooray hooray, the Maxwell decision was key as he looked in very good touch and if he had stayed, likely to take the game away from us.
Sky could not wait to explain what a difference the rain had made, with the ball coming on to the bat better, and poor Lancs having to deal with a wet ball. Shame.They are probably more used to a wet ball than any other county, apart from Glamorgan, maybe.
Essex In their innings, demonstrated how to pace an innings, constantly threatened by Duckworth Lewis, and realised only too well, the importance of keeping up with the rate from the start.
Hats off to Delport for ensuring we were always well in touch with DL, even though he has often flattered to deceive. Key players need to perform in important matches and perform he did. Well played.
We came into this match with momentum, something Sky seemed to completely ignore although they did acknowledge we have dangerous experienced players.
Well, skill and experience in the shape of Ravi and Ryan, snatched victory from Lancs with a marvellous partnership, with Ravi excelling with his four sixes, and punishing big time, the calamitous decision to bowl Livingstone for the 19th over. Big post mortem methinks in the Lancs dressing room.
Ryan, not having the greatest of seasons, yet again showed how we will miss him in all formats of the game. Perfect foil for Ravi, who has enjoyed probably one of the best fortnights in his cricketing career. Nothing beats experience.
We are peaking at the right time and should fear no one, although the absence of Delport is significant. This is T20. Anything can happen and generally does. No one will relish facing Essex, due to our unpredictability. Can’t wait.
Not exactly eating humble pie about Beard, but he bowled with spirit and heart, taking two key wickets. Essex obviously believe in him, he is young and can only improve, one hopes. Well done.
I was so fearful of the night, but what a joyous end.
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Sorry why is Delport missing? He's not in the CPL.
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Sorry. I thought one of the posts said he would not be available.
Excellent if he will be, and who knows what our prospects will be if we can woo Amir back.
High hopes.
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Obviously I would love it if we win the T20 outright but it will be interesting to see if we do whether the Sky commentators Messrs Knight, Dagnall & Butcher in particular, say anything nice or will they blame conditions, toss etc like last night, FWIW Lancs committed a massive howler by bowling Livingstone in over 19, it was glaringly obvious we would attack him & Ravi & Tendo should have got massive credit for their tactics/onslaught. Although Lancs got what I thought was a decent & defendable total Essex stayed in the game throughout by bowling well & keeping up with & generally ahead of DLS. Credit where it's due.
NB - I seem to recall a similar bias the last time we were in the 1/4s although I can't recall the commentators although I think Nick Knight was among them.
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Knight has got a lot of form for sniping at Essex.
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Even on the radio, Five Live Sports extra, they had an ex Lancashire player, and a woman Lancashire player, giving a very biased commentary.
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Notts Outlaws just smashed Middlesex out of the competition ...
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Even on the radio, Five Live Sports extra, they had an ex Lancashire player, and a woman Lancashire player, giving a very biased commentary.
Well, it goes without saying that the BBC would be biased. It is in their DNA.
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Knight has got a lot of form for sniping at Essex.
Went to Brum because he had a new agent who got a big bonus. However, to be fair, the club got itself into a muddle in the 1990s: no succession planning just expecting Gooch to do everything.
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Knight has got a lot of form for sniping at Essex.
Went to Brum because he had a new agent who got a big bonus. However, to be fair, the club got itself into a muddle in the 1990s: no succession planning just expecting Gooch to do everything.
Yes, I recall we had a disaster of a close season when Pring & Fozzie retired, and Stevo & Knight left, and the replacements were pants e.g. Neil Williams, well past his sell-by date). All reflected very poorly on the club's management at the time.
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Knight has got a lot of form for sniping at Essex.
Went to Brum because he had a new agent who got a big bonus. However, to be fair, the club got itself into a muddle in the 1990s: no succession planning just expecting Gooch to do everything.
Yes, I recall we had a disaster of a close season when Pring & Fozzie retired, and Stevo & Knight left, and the replacements were pants e.g. Neil Williams, well past his sell-by date). All reflected very poorly on the club's management at the time.
Indeed. Yet when this was pointed out by yours truly I used to get abuse for being a ‘so-called’ supporter.
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When we signed Neil Williams. A member who lived on the borders of Essex and Middlesex and was a member of both clubs stated that Neil Williams had not completed a full season for Middlesex without injuring himself.
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When we signed Neil Williams. A member who lived on the borders of Essex and Middlesex and was a member of both clubs stated that Neil Williams had not completed a full season for Middlesex without injuring himself.
Well, he died over 15 years ago at the young age of 43.
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I’m sorry your point being?
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I’m sorry your point being?
He can't respond to that accusation...