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Cricket => Essex Second XI => Topic started by: holidave on May 05, 2026, 02:42:43 PM

Title: Essex ccc second x1
Post by: holidave on May 05, 2026, 02:42:43 PM
Is it now Essex CCC policy not to give out any information on second x1 matches? oram I just not looking in the right place?
Title: Re: Essex ccc second x1
Post by: JasonP on May 05, 2026, 03:12:51 PM
Is it now Essex CCC policy not to give out any information on second x1 matches? oram I just not looking in the right place?

They don't seem to bother with it much.  It has the fixtures on the site but little else.   The website hasn't got up to date scores.

nvplay live is always the best place to go if you're looking for the score.

https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/
Title: Re: Essex ccc second x1
Post by: holidave on May 05, 2026, 05:00:06 PM
Thank you.
Title: Re: Essex ccc second x1
Post by: Perov on June 17, 2026, 09:30:49 AM
Again no details of the seconds against Yorkshire  on the Matchzone. Had to go on the Yorkshire site for the scorecard. Once again Das fails, Killen is wicketless over two innings, and Mackenzie Jones, drafted in late  from first team sub duties, has taken 4-40 odd. I still rate him as good, if not better than Bennett. Both worth  developing for the future.
Title: Re: Essex ccc second x1
Post by: nat on June 17, 2026, 10:34:30 AM
Again no details of the seconds against Yorkshire  on the Matchzone. Had to go on the Yorkshire site for the scorecard. Once again Das fails, Killen is wicketless over two innings, and Mackenzie Jones, drafted in late  from first team sub duties, has taken 4-40 odd. I still rate him as good, if not better than Bennett. Both worth  developing for the future.
The club is run on a shoestring and it shows,
Title: Re: Essex ccc second x1
Post by: kingstonj1 on June 17, 2026, 08:31:37 PM
Das contract was pretty baffling but I guess it was done as no one else but you would have thought a club player or NC could be drafted in as emergency if that desperate.

Kileen is odd, a coup signing we thought based on his Durham glimpses but struggling. But let's not underestimate the upheaval of moving from the far north to Essex at such a young age.
Title: Re: Essex ccc second x1
Post by: Andy on June 18, 2026, 08:14:56 PM
Das contract was pretty baffling but I guess it was done as no one else but you would have thought a club player or NC could be drafted in as emergency if that desperate.

Kileen is odd a couple signing we though based on his Durham glimpses but struggling. But let's not underestimate the upheaval of moving from the far north to Essex at such a young age.

Indeed Killeen has totally disappeared whilst Akhtar has been useful and perhaps could be used more in the red ball team in the rest of this summer.
Title: Re: Essex ccc second x1
Post by: nat on July 16, 2026, 01:44:11 PM
Sad to see the state of this team. Some players need to be put out of their misery.
Title: Re: Essex ccc second x1
Post by: Cartero on July 16, 2026, 09:53:47 PM
I hadn't seen a 2s match for about 2/3 years but was at Billericay yesterday v Lancs. As Nat says it was a sad reflection on how thin our resources are, exacerbated by first team demands presumably-I made it Lancs had at least 8 contracted players on the field ,some with a lot of experience eg Bailey, Parkinson, Bell, Balderson, Bohannon, Hurst, while we had just one, who hasn't yet figured in the first XI in any format-Killeen, who I thought didn't bowl badly considering. In the circs I suppose we did well to scrape a draw. But there is zero atmosphere there in contrast to the old 2nd XI festivals at Coggeshall and Halstead or Bishops Stortford, where the home club made an effort. Coupled with the lack of any publicity about the team this is all part of the hollowed out, minimal club Essex is fast becoming under the present invisible management.