Kent - home REMEMBER 6.30 start!

[LeedsExile]

Lancashire had little choice choosing an alternative to OT but selected Durham because it resembles their own pitch the most. Their side will be packed with spinners and dibbly dobblers. The average score at Durham is around 145. At least Lynda and Steve should be happy having an unexpected game on their doorstep.

[smandlej]

Not happy at all, LeedsExile!  We've never been to a T20 match, but would have made an exception for this one: unfortunately, we're having to go over to MIL and FIL in Widnes (both 91, MIL very frail, FIL with vascular dementia) on Tuesday and have a hotel booked for the night as it's too much to drive there and back in the day.  SIL, who visits once a week from her home in Stafford, is on a fortnight's holiday, so we're having to do our duty.

Last night was amazing, couldn't believe Glam won their only match of the season.  Missed some of the commentary due to 'phone call about a problem at the in-laws: afraid life is like that at the moment.

Lynda and Steve

[LeedsExile]

Very sorry to hear that Lynda. Hopefully an Essex win will bring some cheer. All the best.

[essexfan548]

Yes, Linda and Steve, sorry to hear life is difficult at the moment.

All the best

[smandlej]

Thankyou, both.  That's life!

Lynda and Steve

[IlfordEagle]

I am really surprised at so few posts on what was a fantastic, and unexpected, end to the Kent game on Fri, it seems to be the same as usual in that when we lose there are more posts than if we win, surely more of the regulars on here were present unless they didn't go for any reason. The emotions & atmosphere experienced in that final half hour were such that I haven't really had in the last 3/4 years of watching Essex in T20 & they will stay with me for a long time,tbh I still have to keep pinching myself  that we won. 

[nat]

I think you'll find most of the regular posters on this forum do not attend 20-20 matches and prefer proper cricket.

[IlfordEagle]

I think you'll find most of the regular posters on this forum do not attend 20-20 matches and prefer proper cricket.

So do I but I also enjoy T20 & RL matches as well, given the choice I dearly want us to win CC again, if we can win the T20 then that would just be a bonus.

[Valentines Park]

So do I but I also enjoy T20 & RL matches as well, given the choice I dearly want us to win CC again, if we can win the T20 then that would just be a bonus.

When the club were obsessed with T20 to the detriment of everything else I had little time for it.

Now that we're good at proper cricket I'm not averse to a cherry on the cake. 

[Andy]

T20 brings in money. I want my club to remain solvent.

Having heard chapter and verse about the Bury/Bolton saga up here, we need to accept that a professional sport needs to drum up an income.

Without the 40 over game coming in 1969 ECCC would never have won the CC in 1979.

[SirChef26]

I’ll get absolutely hammered on here for this, but if you offered me the choice of the T20 or County Championship, I’d pick the T20. Simply because we’ve never won it before and it boils my piss that all our other southern brethren’s have at least one T20 title under their belts. Plus it’s the most popular and well attended form of cricket in the game (like it or not) and to be the champions of the format in a summer such as this one could attract new fans, which is especially important for us with the hundred coming. As long as Harmer and Cook remain, we’ll have more chances of County Championship success over the next few years.

[nat]

I’ll get absolutely hammered on here for this, but if you offered me the choice of the T20 or County Championship, I’d pick the T20. Simply because we’ve never won it before and it boils my piss that all our other southern brethren’s have at least one T20 title under their belts. Plus it’s the most popular and well attended form of cricket in the game (like it or not) and to be the champions of the format in a summer such as this one could attract new fans, which is especially important for us with the hundred coming. As long as Harmer and Cook remain, we’ll have more chances of County Championship success over the next few years.

I have my hammer ready...

[Can the Can]

I'm greedy. I want both. I love the wham bam thank you ma'am T20 and also love the long comfortable 'ahem' marathon that is championship red ball cricket.

Put a gun to my head and I'd pick the championship of course if forced to choose.

[Andy]

Championship any day. It is the one trophy that we chased for eight decades without success. Think of all the players we have had pull on the three seaxes: from Johnny Douglas, Perrin and Mcgahey, Smith cousins, Walter Mead, O'connor, Russell, Tom Pearce, Insole, Bailey, Tonker Taylor etc. Guys like Frank Rist coaching and running the 2nd team for nothing. Buying Leyton, selling Leyton and going from outgrounds from Clacton to Southend. Need i go on?

[nat]

Championship any day. It is the one trophy that we chased for eight decades without success. Think of all the players we have had pull on the three seaxes: from Johnny Douglas, Perrin and Mcgahey, Smith cousins, Walter Mead, O'connor, Russell, Tom Pearce, Insole, Bailey, Tonker Taylor etc. Guys like Frank Rist coaching and running the 2nd team for nothing. Buying Leyton, selling Leyton and going from outgrounds from Clacton to Southend. Need i go on?

Brings a tear to my eye. Presumably you will return to the nest when you retire?