Tourist Match

[Caughtright]

Tom Craddock has a Michelle for Essex despite forfeiting the one he took against England. It is 5-96 against Derbyshire at Chelmsford in 2012.

[nat]

I see that Snater bowled a few overs. He was not in the original published squad. I feel that the Club could have made some money by auctioning the opportunity for a member of the public to bowl an over. An avid Indian supporter would have paid a fortune to bowl an over at Kohli.

Best idea I've heard in ages. 

The winner gets to bowl at a Test batsman,
2nd prize - a month's free coaching from Nat,
3rd prize - six months free coaching from Nat,
10th prize - adoption by Nat.

Sorry for the delay in 'biting'. I have been busy giving Virat Kohli a four hour net to iron out some faults I had identified.

Prizes are a touch generous. I wouldn't need anything like a month/6 months to turn a novice player into international class.

Unfortunately 10th prize will be unavailable due to a pending court case.

[nat]

Seems Coles put in a shift today?  Should've sweated off a few pounds.

he's looking pretty fit at the mo. would like to see him given a run in the CC games. Then we'll find out if he's up to the job.

Both him and Quinn bowled well today and in the CC game against Notts they played and both could do well in the CC matches but how do they get into the side?  Porter, Cook, Siddle and Harmer plus Ravi is the prefered bowling line up.  As yet we havent got an overseas bowler for the last 3 CC matches so if we don't there's a space there, I guess.

Well Coles is a better bet than Quinn...at the moment. An attack of Porter, Siddle, Cook and Coles would be pretty handy. Add Harmer and Foster plus 5 decent batsmen...job done.

We barely have a couple of decent batsman at the moment.  Chopra, Westley, Lawrence have all been useless this season and tendo has 1 score over 50.  No way we can afford to have Harmer at 7 with the way we've been batting this season.  We tried that against Notts and it was a disaster.

who said anything about Harmer batting at no.7? Still bats at no. 9 cos Siddle and Coles are better bats.

[Andy]

Best idea I've heard in ages. 

The winner gets to bowl at a Test batsman,
2nd prize - a month's free coaching from Nat,
3rd prize - six months free coaching from Nat,
10th prize - adoption by Nat.

Sorry for the delay in 'biting'. I have been busy giving Virat Kohli a four hour net to iron out some faults I had identified.

Prizes are a touch generous. I wouldn't need anything like a month/6 months to turn a novice player into international class.

Unfortunately 10th prize will be unavailable due to a pending court case.

You never let me down, Nat.

[JasonP]

Seems Coles put in a shift today?  Should've sweated off a few pounds.

he's looking pretty fit at the mo. would like to see him given a run in the CC games. Then we'll find out if he's up to the job.

Both him and Quinn bowled well today and in the CC game against Notts they played and both could do well in the CC matches but how do they get into the side?  Porter, Cook, Siddle and Harmer plus Ravi is the prefered bowling line up.  As yet we havent got an overseas bowler for the last 3 CC matches so if we don't there's a space there, I guess.

Well Coles is a better bet than Quinn...at the moment. An attack of Porter, Siddle, Cook and Coles would be pretty handy. Add Harmer and Foster plus 5 decent batsmen...job done.

We barely have a couple of decent batsman at the moment.  Chopra, Westley, Lawrence have all been useless this season and tendo has 1 score over 50.  No way we can afford to have Harmer at 7 with the way we've been batting this season.  We tried that against Notts and it was a disaster.

who said anything about Harmer batting at no.7? Still bats at no. 9 cos Siddle and Coles are better bats.

Coles and Siddle both have career first class batting averages of under 20.  Nowhere near good enough to bat at 7.  Harmer averages 25 and he's nowhere good enough to bat there either.  Particularly the way the top 6 are batting.

[nat]

Well that was a worthwhile event, not. Glad I gave it a miss. How long to the next proper cricket?

[mawallace]

Seems the club are under fire for a tweet

https://www.msn.com/en-ph/sports/cricket/india-vs-england-essex-crickets-tweet-on-virat-kohli-faces-backlash-from-fans/ar-BBLas7W?li=AAgfYGb

[ytsejam]

Seems the club are under fire for a tweet

https://www.msn.com/en-ph/sports/cricket/india-vs-england-essex-crickets-tweet-on-virat-kohli-faces-backlash-from-fans/ar-BBLas7W?li=AAgfYGb

Some people (those getting angry about a "fun" tweet" really do need to grow up!..

[Slogger]

Strewth. What a load of horlicks Twitter is

[Valentines Park]

Good job the club didn't mention Kohli's batting average in England.

[Andy]

Clearly some tongue in cheek humour. 

Of course for every idiot who gets ‘offended’ by a comment there are many more who didn’t get offended. But they don’t make for cheap news. Indeed, those who got offended are looking for some notoriety...

[IlfordEagle]

Some of these Indian fans are so touchy about their beloved heroes who apparently can do no wrong. I wonder how they would react if England on tour in India requested a warm up game be reduced in days. I think it was an insult to Essex the way it was done here given that we are the current County Champions to boot, pity the ECB don't have the balls to tell India where to stick their request, but we all know India can do exactly what they want in all aspects of cricket.

[afinetickletoleg]

Typical sense of humour failure from the snowflake generation is not limited to this country it would seem.

[Slogger]

Well the tweet was typical English understatement. Anyone who understands the nuances of English and the way the English communicate would get it. It was actually praising the bloke. Strewth

[Blocky]

I gave Murali Vijay a bit of a send off from the crowd and a few of them got really upset.
maybe it's because we'd been imitating them squealing like schoolgirls for an hour.....
worst fans in world cricket.  no sense of humour at all, and certainly nothing to back themselves up with when we stood up and went and had a chat...
all in a very friendly way. 
Kohli scratches his a### and they go into meltdown.   

Anyway, I had a lovely 3 days off, watched loads of cricket, imbibed far too much, and generally had a great time.
 I hope they enjoyed the small changing room and heaters being put on in their toilets.