Cookys T20 Big Bash - Thurs 5th June

[stickyboy]

Anyone planning on going?

http://www.cookybenefityear.com/

Possibly the highlight of the Benefit Year as the County Ground plays host to a T20 showdown between Cooky's All-Star team of Essex teammates and internationals and a Past Essex XI!
 
Simply a must-see for all Essex cricket fans. See the stars of today take on the stars of yesteryear and there's a 'legends' parade of Essex Greats too!

Featuring: Gough, Swann, Anderson, Flower, Cook, Panesar, Harmison, Bopara, Irani, Napier, Foster, Grayson, Such. Stephenson, Ryder, Tudor plus more

[Mick]

For me the whole purpose of benefits is to reward loyal club players who have given years of service, not to make very rich people even richer.

Yes, I know half is going to charity, so presumably the other half isn't. Count me out.

[Valentines Park]

For me the whole purpose of benefits is to reward loyal club players who have given years of service

When it's Ravi & Tendo's turn we'll be rewarding players who have given us weeks of service.

[Perov]

No sign of KP putting in an appearance.   

[DT]

No sign of KP putting in an appearance.   

He'll be too busy playing championship cricket

[Diatribe]

I've always been of the belief that the British heirarchy always have money for the wrong people and wrong causes, a classic example being the Coronation in 1953 which cost in the region of a £million, the equivalent today of circa £160 million. This of course being at a time when the country was bankrupt, indebted to the yanks for the next 50 yrs, rationing still being in force and half the country's cities bomb sites.

T'would appear that ECCC also have adopted the same tactics, with Bopara and Tendoeschate being next in line. I sincerely hope that Essex cricket fans will look the other way when the begging bowels are touted around for Cook, Tendoeschate and Bopara, although I doubt this will be the case. Blessed are the meek, for we shall inherit them.

[ytsejam]

Hope Cook and Bopara are going to make themselves available then for the T20 game the next day v Surrey! if they can be playing in a tinpot match like this!

[stickyboy]

also its £18 on get in for this (£22 for reserved!)

[bwildered]

Did Cookies Bash go down a smash ? Anyone go this event , so can give a general view.
 

[stickyboy]

i know of no-one who went!

so Cook played yesterday but not in the squad for today?

[firehazard]

...
so Cook played yesterday but not in the squad for today?

All that bashing must be exhausting.

[bwildered]

Central contracted to the ECB, with a change in top management less likely to play for Essex than before when Andy Flower was at the helm. So not always his fault in his unavailability.

[Perov]

On the brief clip of Nasser batting at this event on Sky, the crowd looked very poor.
A few hundred?

[Blocky]

He doesn't deserve a benefit.  FACT.

It should have been given to Swampy, a proper, loyal, Essex cricketer who captained his county to success and would still be doing so if it hadn't been for the disgusting work of a few people involved in the DK affair.

[IanS]

He doesn't deserve a benefit.  FACT.

It should have been given to Swampy, a proper, loyal, Essex cricketer who captained his county to success and would still be doing so if it hadn't been for the disgusting work of a few people involved in the DK affair.

I think it is a well established practice that benefits are awarded approximately 10 years after being capped. Cook (and Bopara were capped on 2005). Pettini (also Phillips & ten Doescate) were capped in 2006 so I can see a bit of a backlog building up. But setting aside the legalism, I would agree that Pettini ought to be at the front of the queue.