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Get on the 2017 membership waiting list!
Essex fans can join the waiting list for 2017 membership now with pricing due to be announced at the start of November.
The 2017 season looks to be the most exciting yet with Chris Silverwood’s side recently returning to Specsavers County Championship Division One.
International players from around the world are scattered throughout the counties with exciting names such as Joe Root and Toby Roland-Jones heading to Chelmsford next summer.
Yorkshire, Lancashire and current holders Middlesex are three of eight counties due to make up the division next year.
Once pricings have been announced, new memberships and renewals will be available roughly two weeks afterwards both online and from the membership and ticketing office.
To join the waiting list please contact the membership and ticketing office on 01245 254010.
2017 Membership
Join your County in Division One by becoming an Essex County Cricket Club Member. A new campaign awaits in 2017 as we prepare for top-flight cricket and aim to better progress in the limited-over formats.
2017 pricing and information will be released in early November with Memberships available to renew or purchase soon after. We are operating a waiting list for new Members, which you can join by clicking here or calling us on 01245 254010 (Monday to Friday, 10am – 4pm).
Membership includes free entry to all Specsavers County Championship & Royal London One-Day Cup (group stages only) home matches, alongside complimentary tickets to all Tourist or international fixtures held at The Essex County Ground. You are also entitled to exclusive use of the Pavilion and Members’ facilities on matchdays, and you will have access to discounted tickets and a priority booking period ahead of the NatWest T20 Blast, when it returns to The E.C.G during the summer.
For the 2016 full list of benefits please click here.
The 2017 fixture list is due to be released by the ECB in late November/early December.
Join us for the Members’ and Premier Suite Members’ Christmas Lunch
Tickets for both the Members’ and Premier Suite Members’ Christmas Lunch are still available.
The Premier Suite Members’ Christmas Lunch will take place on Wednesday 14 December with the Members’ Christmas Lunch taking place on Friday 16 December.
Set overlooking the ground in the Premier Suite, the lunch will provide the perfect opportunity to look back over the season and to indulge in festive fayre.
Guest speakers will also be present with former ECCC player (1965-1086) Stuart Turner talking on Wednesday 14 December and Head Groundsman Stuart Kerrison speaking on Friday 16 December.
Tickets are £26.50 (Members) and £31.50 (non-Member guests) with an optional £3.50 donation to the Essex Cricket Foundation.
The menu for the Members’ Lunch is here and likewise for the Premier Suite Members’ Lunch here.
Tickets can be purchased online, by phone 01245 254010 (Mon-Fri 10am till 4pm) and in person at The Essex County Ground (Mon-Fri 9am till 5pm).
Essex celebrate being Champions
After Essex and Kent settled for a draw at Canterbury in the final Specsavers County Championship match of the season, the side were finally able to get their hands on the trophy.
The team celebrated in front of the Chelmsford crowd last week after the match against Glamorgan which secured the Championship. However, Captain Ryan ten Doeschate lifted the Division Two trophy aloft after play against Kent in front of the number of Essex supporters who travelled, with champagne flowing once again!
T20 discussion to be held in October
Essex CCC will be holding a Members’ Forum on October 4, starting at 6:30, to discuss the recent proposals to introduce a new T20 competition.
The meeting will be chaired by John Faragher and he will be joined by Chief Executive Derek Bowden. They will answer any queries from members about the potential city-based tournament.
The forum will take place in the pavilion with all members invited to attend and voice any views.
General club issues will be discussed at the Official Members’ Forum on November 10 with October’s Q & A focused specifically on the city-based proposal.
Graham Napier nominated for PCA Award
Graham Napier has been nominated for the PCA’s NatWest Players’ Player of the Year Award and will come up against three other nominees in Ben Duckett, Keaton Jennings and Jeetan Patel.
The flagship award, which is voted for by current professional cricketers in England and Wales, will be presented at the 47th NatWest PCA Awards which will be held at Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Wednesday September 28.
Two other rising stars will also be hoping to lift the John Arlott Cup and be recognised by their fellow professionals with Kent’s Daniel Bell-Drummond and Surrey’s Sam Curran joining Duckett and Hameed on the shortlist to be awarded the NatWest Young Player of the Year.
There are also three nominees in the Waitrose Women’s Player of the Summer category, voted for by players who featured for England women this summer and they earmarked Tammy Beaumont, Natalie Sciver and Lauren Winfield as contenders.
The NatWest PCA Awards evening is an event run by the PCA in association with the England and Wales Cricket Board and will once again be sponsored by NatWest after previously holding naming rights for 10 years. The Awards reflect on and honour the domestic season with all monies raised on the night going to the PCA Benevolent Fund.
NOMINEES FOR NATWEST PLAYERS’ PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Graham Napier (Essex):
Napier is in with a chance of lifting the Reg Hayter Cup in what would be a fitting end to his 20-year career with Essex. A season haul of 97 wickets in all formats and 378 runs saw the all-rounder lead his county back to Division One of the Specsavers County Championship in his final hurrah.
Napier has now retired to take up a coaching post at the Royal Hospital School in Suffolk where he has succeeded Don Topley, another former Essex player. Essex clinched promotion against Glamorgan at Chelmsford in Napier’s 179th and final first-class match.
Napier, a staunch supporter of the PCA Benevolent Fund, ended his farewell season with 69 first-class wickets and five five wicket hauls. He also contributed almost 300 championship runs including the seventh first-class century of his career against Sussex at Colchester in August.
Napier showed white ball cricket isn’t necessarily a young man’s game too with his 34 wickets meaning he can leave the sport on a high and importantly on his terms.
Jeetan Patel (Warwickshire):
Patel is a nominee for the second time in three years after a consistent summer which saw the former New Zealand off-spinner lead the PCA Most Valuable Player Rankings for the majority of the second half of the campaign and starred in Warwickshire’s run to lifting the Royal London One-Day Cup, taking 22 wickets in the process.
Patel has taken almost 100 wickets across all formats, with four five wicket hauls in the Specsavers County Championship including 10 wickets in the win over Surrey at Guildford which briefly took Warwickshire top of the First Division in early July.
The 36-year-old is on course to win the PCA’s MVP Award for the second time in three years at the conclusion of the season tomorrow to underline his consistent top-class performances.
Ben Duckett (Northamptonshire):
A destructive top order batsman, Duckett has punished bowlers throughout 2016, hitting 2,706 runs across all formats and starred for the England Lions where he hit a record breaking 220 not out against Sri Lanka A at Canterbury, the highest ever score by a Lions player, which was followed by a first call-up to the senior England squad to tour Bangladesh next month.
The 21-year-old also hit five hundreds in red-ball cricket, including two double centuries with a career-best 282 not out to open the season against Sussex at Wantage Road. Duckett, a product of Stowe School, also made three centuries in white ball which helped secure a sufficiently high position in the PCA Most Valuable Player Rankings to earn an invitation to play for the North against the South in a pioneering three-match series in the United Arab Emirates next March.
Duckett top-scored for his county in each of the three formats and ended the NatWest T20 Blast season with 477 runs, at a strike rate of 142 which included smashing 84 from 47 balls in the T20 Blast semi-final against Nottinghamshire.
Keaton Jennings (Durham):
Durham’s top order batsman has had a season to remember hitting a club record seven Specsavers County Championship Division One hundreds at an average just shy of 70 amongst his 1,522 runs during his 16 four-day encounters.
Jennings, the son of former South Africa coach Ray Jennings, made two double centuries including a career-best 221 against Yorkshire in June and played a huge part in securing Durham’s place in the top tier of the Championship. The 24-year-old left-hander also stood out in the NatWest T20 Blast, scoring 348 runs at an average of 43.5 while taking 17 wickets in all formats.
Although Jennings missed out on a place on England’s senior tour to Bangladesh there was compensation with his first call-up by the England Lions for their trip to the United Arab Emirates.
Full list of Awards to be presented on Wednesday September 28:
Harold Goldblatt Award for the PCA Umpire of the Year
Greene King PCA England Masters MVP
ECB Special Award
PCA Special Merit Award
NatWest T20 Blast Player of the Year Award
Royal London One Day Cup Player of the Year Award
Sky Sports Sixes Award
Greene King Team of the Year
Waitrose Women’s Player of the Summer
Investec Test Player of the Summer
John Arlott Cup for the NatWest PCA Young Player of the Year
Reg Hayter Cup for the NatWest PCA Player of the Year
Overall PCA County MVP
Wanstead & Snarebrook CC celebrate 150th anniversary in style!
Essex Cricket would like to take the opportunity to congratulate Wanstead & Snarebrook Cricket Club for one of their most successful season’s ever and appropriately when they are celebrating their 150th anniversary year.
The success has been across the board with the First Team winning the Shepherd Neame Premier Division trophy and the Dukes Essex League Cup.
The 2nd and 3rd XI sides also won their respective divisions, as well as the 4th XI coming runner’s up.
At Under 19’s level, the side won the Essex NatWest T20 competition and then went on to win the regional T20 competition in the following week.
The Ladies side won the Essex League and the Under 16’s Girls won the County Matchplay competition.
Well done to John Gray (Club President) and Martin Pluck (Chairman & Secretary) and all at the Club for a fantastic year.
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Travelling to Kent to see the Champions pick up the trophy?
Having clinched the Specsavers County Championship Division Two title last week against Glamorgan, Essex head to Kent to play their final game of the season and lift the trophy.
Chris Silverwood has named a youthful looking squad for the trip to Canterbury with Aaron Beard and Matt Dixon making the trip. David Masters will look to make his final professional appearance at the club where he started his career and in the process hand the baton over to the likes of Beard and Dixon.
The trophy will be presented to Chris Silverwood’s side on the final day’s play in Canterbury and Essex will look to finish the season strongly with a victory against rivals Kent.
Ticket Prices
Tickets are still available to purchase from the Kent ticket office or online. Savings can be made if you purchase them prior to 5pm the day before you are attending. Tickets will also be available to buy on the gate and will be priced as below.
Ground Entry | £15.00
Ground Entry and Stand | £20.00
Junior | £8.00
Directions to The Spitfire Ground, Canterbury
From the North
From M20 junction 7 turn left onto A249. At M2 junction 5 (Sittingbourne) bear right onto M2. At junction 7 (Boughton Street) turn right on to A2.
From the A2 ignore the first exit for Canterbury (Harbledown, A2050) Continue on the A2 till the Bridge exit. Take the exit and then turn right travel 70 metres the take the first right with a sign directing to Canterbury.
Follow the road on to the A2050 (not left and back onto to the A2). Continue on the Roman Rd and at the Gate roundabout take the 3rd exit onto the Old Dover Road (B2068). Continue on Old Dover Road for 800 metres and the ground will be clearly visible on the left hand side.
From the South
From M20 junction 13 bear right onto A20. Follow this road to junction with A260. Bear left and continue to junction with A2 (north). Continue to junction with A2050 and then proceed as north.
Parking
On matchdays, there is no one-off parking at the ground for spectators.
Parking is available at Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar School in Old Dover Road for £10 per day when school is not open and space is available.
Entry to The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence is via a pathway onto Nackington Rd and directly into the Club’s entrance – a five-minute walk.
Weather
The weather looks mixed today but full days of play are expected the next three days. What better way to spend the next four days than watching the top two sides go toe to toe?
