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Cricket => Essex Eagles T20 => Topic started by: dazedpenguin on June 21, 2024, 12:23:01 PM

Title: Kent (A)
Post by: dazedpenguin on June 21, 2024, 12:23:01 PM
Unchanged squad. Unless Sams makes a fast recovery, probably an unchanged team with Das, Beard and Sams missing out.

Harmer, Ben Allison, Charlie Allison, Beard, Benkenstein, Cox, Critchley, Das, Elgar, Pepper, Rossington, Sams, Snater, Walter

And then the county championship starts again on Sunday!
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: nat on June 21, 2024, 05:17:46 PM
All three match officials are ex-K*nt players, how does that work?!
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: nat on June 21, 2024, 07:56:43 PM
Walter out to a spin bowler. Quelle surprise.
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: dazedpenguin on June 21, 2024, 08:05:42 PM
Walter out to a spin bowler. Quelle surprise.

Paul Newton making the point that he really needed to calm down a bit, given the rate at which Essex were scoring.
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: nat on June 21, 2024, 08:18:52 PM
Walter out to a spin bowler. Quelle surprise.

Paul Newton making the point that he really needed to calm down a bit, given the rate at which Essex were scoring.

He panics. Only has two options, block or bash.
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: SirChef26 on June 21, 2024, 08:22:19 PM
Dean Elgar scored 7 runs from 11 balls. Jordan Cox scored 26 from 8. Gerron with it!
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: essexfan548 on June 21, 2024, 08:22:28 PM
Good win :)
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: spirali on June 21, 2024, 08:23:14 PM
Yeah, Walter's brief and frenetic innings was rather predictable. However it proved to be only a minor glitch in another commanding performance. Pepper is becoming a really special player in this format, seriously impressive the way he nails the big shots time and time again. Somehow he scores at a frightening rate without ever seeming to do anything really crazy.
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: dazedpenguin on June 21, 2024, 08:23:44 PM
Another good win. Pepper is having a terrific season and the bowling has been a lot better the last few games.

So now of course they change formats again, although I can't decide if I prefer the different tournaments played in blocks throughout the season or two formats in the same week.
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: nat on June 21, 2024, 08:27:09 PM
Yeah, Walter's brief and frenetic innings was rather predictable. However it proved to be only a minor glitch in another commanding performance. Pepper is becoming a really special player in this format, seriously impressive the way he nails the big shots time and time again. Somehow he scores at a frightening rate without ever seeming to do anything really crazy.

Pepper has improved by (largely) by cutting out the reverse sweep.
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: bwildered on June 21, 2024, 08:30:18 PM
 Another Pepper innings which took the game away significantly. Job done, but in vital games needs to be there at the end. Been a revaluation in this white ball format. A white ball career beckons, has his scores are now hard to ignore for franchise. Hitting the ball hard and getting under the ball with  strong wrists has improved his game, a winter in the gym and the white ball world is his oyster.
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: SirChef26 on June 21, 2024, 09:33:44 PM
Another Pepper innings which took the game away significantly. Job done, but in vital games needs to be there at the end. Been a revaluation in this white ball format. A white ball career beckons, has his scores are now hard to ignore for franchise. Hitting the ball hard and getting under the ball with  strong wrists has improved his game, a winter in the gym and the white ball world is his oyster.
It's the one glaring weakness we've got with the bat, that cost us the trophy last season. No Bopara or ten Doeschate to come in at any point and make sure that they are there at the end. Walter isn't good enough to do it and whilst I initially had high hopes that Critchley could've done it, I've not been convinced. It's not cost us yet (almost did against Glammy), but when we get to the knockouts that will probably change.

As Nat says, it's Pepper's shot selection that has kicked him on this year. No more reverse sweeping and far less conventional sweeping has eliminated most of his usual out balls, meaning he is now converting 20s into 40s, 30s into 50s etc.
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: Cricketmad on June 21, 2024, 10:00:58 PM
But can he play proper cricket ?
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: dazedpenguin on June 21, 2024, 10:19:11 PM
But can he play proper cricket ?

I think he has the best technique of any of the younger players. Other forum members may disagree.

But the most important thing is that the tantalising possibility of Pepper opening the batting for England with Phil Salt is no longer just a headline writer?s dream.
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: nat on June 22, 2024, 07:35:42 AM
Any win is a good win so well done. My man Ben Allison is growing into the team by finding ways to contribute. He's a terrific athlete and we must keep him.
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: bwildered on June 22, 2024, 02:04:02 PM
Any win is a good win so well done. My man Ben Allison is growing into the team by finding ways to contribute. He's a terrific athlete and we must keep him.

 Contributed well with wickets and catches in the white ball game, but needs now play red ball games, so strange to send him out again on loan for playing time . Perhaps we have the added pressure of being a side competing at the top end of the Championship that he does not guarantee a place in the side, which requires a extra yard in pace, hence the signing of Bosch .
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: essexfan548 on June 22, 2024, 06:09:09 PM
According to a friend who was there, Cox got a lot of abuse from the Kent crowd and there were cries of 'Judas'. Appalling behaviour ...
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: nat on June 22, 2024, 06:32:40 PM
According to a friend who was there, Cox got a lot of abuse from the Kent crowd and there were cries of 'Judas'. Appalling behaviour ...

I hadn't realised Christianity had reached K*nt.
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: Andy on June 23, 2024, 04:22:46 PM
According to a friend who was there, Cox got a lot of abuse from the Kent crowd and there were cries of 'Judas'. Appalling behaviour ...

TBF he was a rat leaving a sinking ship. I would be inclined to say the same to a number of ex-ECCC players, but it might incite them to play better.
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: essexfan548 on June 24, 2024, 09:29:23 AM
According to a friend who was there, Cox got a lot of abuse from the Kent crowd and there were cries of 'Judas'. Appalling behaviour ...

TBF he was a rat leaving a sinking ship. I would be inclined to say the same to a number of ex-ECCC players, but it might incite them to play better.

No, he was being messed around by Billings and the Kent management - his links are to Essex [Felsted school].
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: Andy on June 24, 2024, 04:41:44 PM
According to a friend who was there, Cox got a lot of abuse from the Kent crowd and there were cries of 'Judas'. Appalling behaviour ...

TBF he was a rat leaving a sinking ship. I would be inclined to say the same to a number of ex-ECCC players, but it might incite them to play better.

No, he was being messed around by Billings and the Kent management - his links are to Essex [Felsted school].

Indeed, but still seen as a rodent taking to the life raft.
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: essexfan548 on June 24, 2024, 05:34:22 PM
According to a friend who was there, Cox got a lot of abuse from the Kent crowd and there were cries of 'Judas'. Appalling behaviour ...

TBF he was a rat leaving a sinking ship. I would be inclined to say the same to a number of ex-ECCC players, but it might incite them to play better.

No, he was being messed around by Billings and the Kent management - his links are to Essex [Felsted school].

Indeed, but still seen as a rodent taking to the life raft.

Not by Kent members ie those in the know - they also drove Ollie Robinson away - poor team management
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: Andy on June 24, 2024, 06:02:58 PM
That Nick Browne: throws the bat at everything and gets out. Should learn to build an innings by prodding around, etc?
Title: Re: Kent (A)
Post by: kingstonj1 on June 24, 2024, 07:12:51 PM
That Nick Browne: throws the bat at everything and gets out. Should learn to build an innings by prodding around, etc?

He was dropped on 10 here was dropped on 0 vs Kent wasn't he? He knows he won't last long either way but as his face fits it doesn't matter.