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Cricket => Essex Eagles T20 => Topic started by: dazedpenguin on June 03, 2023, 04:53:43 PM
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Khushi out injured and Lawrence is back with England, despite the first test not being until June 16th. Rymell comes into the squad.
Harmer, Allison, Cook, Critchley, Das, Nijjar, Pepper, Rossington, Rymell, Sams, Snater, Walter, Westley
Good luck to anyone travelling there.
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Khushi out injured and Lawrence is back with England, despite the first test not being until June 16th. Rymell comes into the squad.
Harmer, Allison, Cook, Critchley, Das, Nijjar, Pepper, Rossington, Rymell, Sams, Snater, Walter, Westley
Good luck to anyone travelling there.
The mother of all thrashings coming up.
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Khushi out injured and Lawrence is back with England, despite the first test not being until June 16th. Rymell comes into the squad.
Harmer, Allison, Cook, Critchley, Das, Nijjar, Pepper, Rossington, Rymell, Sams, Snater, Walter, Westley
Good luck to anyone travelling there.
The mother of all thrashings coming up.
Do you want Essex to get thrashed? If our bowlers took a leaf out of Samms book and bowled straight and mixed up their pace we might have a chance. Bring in Snater and Pepper, hopefully bat first and put some pressure on. T20 only needs 1 or 2 batsmen to come off. Time for Cook to remember how to bowl in white ball cricket
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Khushi out injured and Lawrence is back with England, despite the first test not being until June 16th. Rymell comes into the squad.
Harmer, Allison, Cook, Critchley, Das, Nijjar, Pepper, Rossington, Rymell, Sams, Snater, Walter, Westley
Good luck to anyone travelling there.
The mother of all thrashings coming up.
Do you ever post something constructive? I hope none of the players read your posts.
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It should be a battering to be fair, Somerset are a class above in T20 cricket. Smashed us twice last season and have improved since then.
Whilst not having Lawrence isn't a huge loss, it does leave a sour taste knowing that'll he'll probably be out golfing with Baz's boys whilst taking a wage from us.
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To be honest if I were England, having picked Lawrence, I wouldn't want him playing T20. I would want him to play in the championship match starting on 11 June (although I doubt he will).
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It's going to be tough, but it would be very on brand for Essex to beat Somerset and then lose to Sussex on Tuesday.
Apparently England will have some kind of team building exercise in Scotland. What can possibly go wrong.
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It's going to be tough, but it would be very on brand for Essex to beat Somerset and then lose to Sussex on Tuesday.
Apparently England will have some kind of team building exercise in Scotland. What can possibly go wrong.
Don’t let Johnny Bairstow anywhere near the golf course
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It's going to be tough, but it would be very on brand for Essex to beat Somerset and then lose to Sussex on Tuesday.
Apparently England will have some kind of team building exercise in Scotland. What can possibly go wrong.
A salad and fruit-free zone IIRC. And the water is fluoride-free too.
Just keep away from the natives.
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It's going to be tough, but it would be very on brand for Essex to beat Somerset and then lose to Sussex on Tuesday.
Apparently England will have some kind of team building exercise in Scotland. What can possibly go wrong.
A salad and fruit-free zone IIRC. And the water is fluoride-free too.
Just keep away from the natives.
I love it up there. The part of Essex where I grew up, near Halstead, was full of Scots farmers. I think there were three children in my primary school class whose parents were Scots.
Of course Essex always used to have quite a connection north of Hadrians's Wall with Hardie (especially) and Denness. Such was also born in Helensburgh but I was never too sure how much of a Scot he is. In domestic terms, playing in four championship winning seasons, is Hardie the most successful Scot to have played English County Cricket? I suppose Denness runs him close?
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Dougie Brown with Warwickshire is the only other one I can think of, but he only won 2 championships (and a bunch of one day competitions).
Somerset currently have Josh Davey of course.
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Essex won the toss and will bowl first again.
Pepper, Snater and Allison in for Lawrence, Khushi and Nijjar
Rossington, Das, Pepper, Critchley, Walter, Westley, Sams, Harmer, Snater, Allison, Cook
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It's going to be tough, but it would be very on brand for Essex to beat Somerset and then lose to Sussex on Tuesday.
Apparently England will have some kind of team building exercise in Scotland. What can possibly go wrong.
I've been retired for years, but the phrase "team-building" still sends a shudder through my bowels. I hope they are not subjected to team paintball, overnight bivouacs up mountains or getting across 7-foot rivers with two 3-foot planks.
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It's going to be tough, but it would be very on brand for Essex to beat Somerset and then lose to Sussex on Tuesday.
Apparently England will have some kind of team building exercise in Scotland. What can possibly go wrong.
Don’t let Johnny Bairstow anywhere near the golf course
Don’t let Bairstow anywhere near the wicketkeepers gloves— dropped catches lose matches,Foalks.
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Excellent bowling performance, especially from Sams and Harmer. Essex should be favourites to get 151, but Somerset have some decent bowling so I wouldn't count them out.
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good bowling effort. Now comes the tricky bit.
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naused it up.
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Somerset have a very strong bowling unit but this was a pretty naive run chase. Walter went for a big hit when we needed 7.5 an over; Westley needed to show his experience etc. Rossington has little value. He is a poor keeper and if he is not scoring runs he is clearly a complete waste of space. We’re not too far off but the loss of Khushi and Lawrence was crucial
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That was shocking. Fine innings from
Pepper, but the rest made a bit of a mess of it. Disappointing.
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Once again our lack of batting nous tells against us. Good knock by Pepper but it needed someone else to stay with him for a while. Somerset certainly bowled well in defence of their small total, but feels like we lost that rather than them winning it. We managed to lose 4 wickets in 9 balls at the end.
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A typical example of bazballing a game which we did not need too . Every bat looked like they were likely to get out than play a decent innings . Shoddy, after a decent effort in the field .
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How depressing to see yet again, we snatch defeat from jaws of victory.
Bowling good, particularly Henry who grabbed the crucial wicket of Harmer with a great yorker, but another failure batting wise by Sams, who once upon a time would score a quick eye catching 30 off 15 balls.
Just a shadow of himself.
The run out to clinch victory for Somerset belonged in a Laurel and Hatdy film.
We can bowl brilliantly, and often do but if we can’t knock off modest totals we are really struggling.
Cannot see much light ahead of a long dark tunnel.
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You can tell just by the Somerset celebrations that they knew they had got out of jail there and had won a match they really had no right to after their poor batting and some very good Essex bowling.
Step forward our quality batsmen who once again manage to completely mess up a run chase with some utterly brainless batting!
We have too many so called "all rounders" who aren't!!! (Rossington, Walter, Sams & Snater).
Tuesday now already seems like a "must win" match!
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8 matches of Friday ~ -16 innings - Essex score was the lowest.
8 games today - 16 innings - Essex score was the lowest.
Tells the story !!
Sadly we are a team in decline probably in the championship as well - we have had the good times.
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8 matches of Friday ~ -16 innings - Essex score was the lowest.
8 games today - 16 innings - Essex score was the lowest.
Tells the story !!
Sadly we are a team in decline probably in the championship as well - we have had the good times.
Yep especially the development of batsmen. When was the last time we had an England u19 batsman? Lawrence nearly 10 years ago. Not good enough.
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we have had the good times.
Maybe.
But it wasn't that long ago when good times were a distant memory.
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I’m being deadly serious here, get Alastair Cook out of the commentary box and back in the T20 side. No way we lose that with him at the top of the order.
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I’m being deadly serious here, get Alastair Cook out of the commentary box and back in the T20 side. No way we lose that with him at the top of the order.
Agreed.
Name the batsman with the highest T20 average for Essex, since records began.
Sir Chef with an average of 37 and a strike rate of 131.58.
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I’m being deadly serious here, get Alastair Cook out of the commentary box and back in the T20 side. No way we lose that with him at the top of the order.
Agreed.
Name the batsman with the highest T20 average for Essex, since records began.
Sir Chef with an average of 37 and a strike rate of 131.58.
Agreed totally, but I think you’ll find The Chef is VERY happy being in the commentary box rather than thrashing around for a few overs every couple of days or so!!
Probably earning more money too and certainly contributing to his post playing days pension!
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It seems to me that batting has been an issue for us ever since T20 was first dreamed up. The occasional spectacular innings (Napier, Delport, Chopra) but mostly we've been a bit below par, usually relying on 30s and 40s rather than major innings. Even when we won the comp in 2019, our batting was just about good enough rather than truly dominant. When you scroll through the scores from other counties, there generally seems to be someone who has scored something like 80 off 35 balls, and not always overseas stars either - often it's middling county players who have worked out how to play this format, in a way very few of our guys ever have. In recent times, Pepper appears to be the only one who's worked out how to go about it. Which is odd, since there are, at least in theory, much more accomplished players than him in our line-up.
There's also the need to adapt to the match situation - yesterday's chase didn't actually need big-hitting firepower, but it did need players to keep their heads and not keep holing out going for glory.
Dunno.. am I being unfair? Would supporters of other counties say the same about their teams?
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I have never been convinced by our batting coach, who mainly performed at minor county level.
Pettini, who is trailing around with the seconds, but has much more first hand experience at county level, was a decent white ball player. Maybe a swap?
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Pettini was a good captain so you'd think he would be a good coach.
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I’m being deadly serious here, get Alastair Cook out of the commentary box and back in the T20 side. No way we lose that with him at the top of the order.
Agreed.
Name the batsman with the highest T20 average for Essex, since records began.
Sir Chef with an average of 37 and a strike rate of 131.58.
Not too sure. His last T20 match was in 2015! that was one match when he made 8! 2014 he played one and got 22!
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It seems to me that batting has been an issue for us ever since T20 was first dreamed up. The occasional spectacular innings (Napier, Delport, Chopra) but mostly we've been a bit below par, usually relying on 30s and 40s rather than major innings. Even when we won the comp in 2019, our batting was just about good enough rather than truly dominant. When you scroll through the scores from other counties, there generally seems to be someone who has scored something like 80 off 35 balls, and not always overseas stars either - often it's middling county players who have worked out how to play this format, in a way very few of our guys ever have. In recent times, Pepper appears to be the only one who's worked out how to go about it. Which is odd, since there are, at least in theory, much more accomplished players than him in our line-up.
There's also the need to adapt to the match situation - yesterday's chase didn't actually need big-hitting firepower, but it did need players to keep their heads and not keep holing out going for glory.
Dunno.. am I being unfair? Would supporters of other counties say the same about their teams?
Yesterdays game was a glimpse into the past on how to acquire a JPL win .
Apart from Harmer and Westley no others seem prepared to work the ball around the field when the game dictates. Common sense seemed to go AWOL with the others .