Birmingham Bears (A), quarter final

[Reddevil]

How often does a team sneaking into last play off place, turn form on its head and confound everyone.
Step forward proudly Essex. Fourth beating first.

No easy feat beating Bears on their home ground. A very solid performance, capturing the key wickets of Maxwell and Hain at crucial stages.

Nothing should surprise us about Essex. W have seen them confound us  us for decades.

Toss of a coin. Keeping this topsy turvy season bubbling away nicely.

Excellent performance.

[kingstonj1]

Absolutely nothing to lose, everyone expects Essex to lose, I expect them to get smashed. They can go out and have some fun.

Still embarrassed and hoping we lose?

well done boys the games a complete lottery, anyone can beat anyone and as i said Derbyshire beat Warks twice in the much vaunted north group. Bigger grounds suit us, we have as much chance as anyone on finals day.

Das in for Snates please as the tail is too long

[kingstonj1]

Obviously I wanted Warwicks to score 300 so we wouldn't stink the finals day out but, heh,  might as well go and win it now. I love this team

Yep some on here will be bit disappointed tonight!

It really must be said no matter what happens rest of the season we are yet again punching above our weight, 2nd in the CC and held our own vs moneybags, into finals day. The club really do deserve credit overall regardless of our in game gripes and certain player concerns.

[Perov]

Great win ( in the end),  but if Walter had a brain he would be dangerous. Needing 6 runs an over, he hits a six first ball, so  just  take easy singles and you are nearly double the run rate
But no, he has to try and hit another maximum, gets caught and singlehandedly caused the late order panic.
I like Walter, but last night he caused me to use words seldom heard in my household!

[nat]

Great win ( in the end),  but if Walter had a brain he would be dangerous. Needing 6 runs an over, he hits a six first ball, so  just  take easy singles and you are nearly double the run rate
But no, he has to try and hit another maximum, gets caught and singlehandedly caused the late order panic.
I like Walter, but last night he caused me to use words seldom heard in my household!

Yep me too.

[nat]

I know all's well that ends well.  But:

1.  We should not have made it so close with needless wickets when already well ahead of the run-rate
2.  I thought Drakes ran across Harmer and blocked his path in the course of the run-out and that should not have been given out.  If Drakes had just stood his ground or held his line, fair enough.  But he did more than that to my eye.  Reminiscent of the Dernbach/Quinn collision at the Oval at the end of the 2018 CC season where I thought the bowler also made deliberate contact.  I would have thought each of those was not out (Quinn was not out anyway) and 5 runs penalty for bowler obstructing batter.  No use asking the fielding captain if he wants to withdraw the appeal - I would have thought that was not out as a matter of the laws in the first place.  All comes under Law 41.5 and it turns on whether the contact by Drakes was deliberate or not.  Can't see how it was not.

In the end it made no difference, but how did other forum members see that incident tonight?

Yes I agree that the run out was tough. I'd have given not out (and a warning and 5 penalty runs) for blocking off Harmer.

[bwildered]

Great win ( in the end),  but if Walter had a brain he would be dangerous. Needing 6 runs an over, he hits a six first ball, so  just  take easy singles and you are nearly double the run rate
But no, he has to try and hit another maximum, gets caught and singlehandedly caused the late order panic.
I like Walter, but last night he caused me to use words seldom heard in my household!

 All about coping with pressure, a opportunity of getting ahead of the game . A run a ball on paper is a walk in the park, but do not forget the opposition do not want you to get any, and not every shot you play goes in a gap.
Great team effort.

Presume Eagles have qualified into semi final 1 , which starts at 11-00 hours

[paulcm]

Absolutely nothing to lose, everyone expects Essex to lose, I expect them to get smashed. They can go out and have some fun.

Still embarrassed and hoping we lose?

well done boys the games a complete lottery, anyone can beat anyone and as i said Derbyshire beat Warks twice in the much vaunted north group. Bigger grounds suit us, we have as much chance as anyone on finals day.

Das in for Snates please as the tail is too long
It could be advisable to bring in an extra batsMAN but for Beard—definitely not Snater !
He’s probably our best fielder and ,though there hasn’t been such a situation this season,is capable of an explosive 20 or so with the bat down the order.
Admittedly he hasn’t been bowling his full quota  of overs but just look back over the season and count up the number of times he’s dismissed the oppo’s best/top-scoring batsMAN.

[afinetickletoleg]

Great win ( in the end),  but if Walter had a brain he would be dangerous. Needing 6 runs an over, he hits a six first ball, so  just  take easy singles and you are nearly double the run rate
But no, he has to try and hit another maximum, gets caught and singlehandedly caused the late order panic.
I like Walter, but last night he caused me to use words seldom heard in my household!

Sam’s dismissal was also ridiculous along with Lawrence throwing it away after playing well to guide us to the brink of victory.

[bwildered]

Essex captain Simon Harmer:

"I feel for our supporters because we always find a way to make it close but luckily in the last two games we have found a way to be on the winning side.
"Their score was par-ish but the way we batted in the powerplay and the few overs after the powerplay was what got us ahead of the game.
"We were looking at a run a ball from about 10 overs out and that really shifted the pressure back on to them and things can happen very quickly in a T20 game."

 
Got over the line Captain, that’s all that matters. Will take that every time .

[essexspur]

Absolutely nothing to lose, everyone expects Essex to lose, I expect them to get smashed. They can go out and have some fun.

Still embarrassed and hoping we lose?

well done boys the games a complete lottery, anyone can beat anyone and as i said Derbyshire beat Warks twice in the much vaunted north group. Bigger grounds suit us, we have as much chance as anyone on finals day.



Das in for Snates please as the tail is too long

Absolutely not. If Das comes in it should be for Beard. Snater can do exactly what he did and smash it out of the ground. He is experienced now and should definitely play ahead of Beard

[Oldhasbeen]

Absolutely not. If Das comes in it should be for Beard. Snater can do exactly what he did and smash it out of the ground. He is experienced now and should definitely play ahead of Beard

Sort-of agreed.
Das should definitely be in the T20 team.

[dazedpenguin]

Surrey, Hampshire and Somerset all qualify for finals day. Not great from the north group.

[essexfan548]

I watched the Lancs game on youtube - they threw it away.

[kingstonj1]

I was wrong on snats been outstanding today.