Essex: Adam Rossington*+, Dean Elgar, Michael Pepper, Jordan Cox, Paul Walter, Matt Critchley, Daniel Sams, Luc Benkenstein, Shane Snater, Ben Allison, Aaron Beard.
Sussex Sharks: Daniel Hughes, Harrison Ward, James Coles, John Simpson+, Fynn Hudson-Prentice, Tom Alsop, Danny Lamb, Nathan McAndrew, Jack Carson, Ollie Robinson, Tymal Mills*.
Match Details:
Umpires: Chris Watts & David Millns Match Referee: Steve Davis Toss: Sussex Sharks won the toss and elected to bowl first Result: Sussex Sharks won by eight wickets
Fifties from Dean Elgar and Michael Pepper were unable to prevent Essex falling to defeat at the hands of Sussex Sharks in the Vitality Blast at The Cloud County Ground.
Pepper blasted a 26-ball 51 and Elgar top-scored with 54 from 39, but their efforts were in vain as the Eagles’ ultimate total of 178-9 was overhauled.
Sussex reeled off the target with 4.2 overs to spare, as openers Harrison Ward and Daniel Hughes racked up a first-wicket stand of 99, individually making 68 off 36, and 47 from just 18, respectively.
Elgar, who was dropped second ball by Tom Alsop in the slips, gave Essex a confident start first alongside stand-in captain Adam Rossington, and then Pepper, after the hosts had been inserted.
The openers put on a quickfire 50 in 31 balls before Rossington was dismissed, caught behind by John Simpson off Ollie Robinson for 16, but that only served to bring the in-form Pepper to the crease.
He smoked four sixes during his stay, passing 50 for the second time in his last three home matches, as the Eagles flew to 114-1 midway through the 12th over.
The team hundred was neatly also the second 50 partnership of the match, with Pepper and Elgar bringing it up just before the halfway mark.
However, things from there began to go downhill for the Eagles, as Pepper was caught by Jack Carson off Nathan McAndrew two balls after posting 50, before Jordan Cox followed a delivery later.
This was despite Elgar marching to his own half-century shortly afterwards, lofting Carson for six to post a 35-ball 50, though his departure shortly afterwards was the beginning of a substantial slide.
He and Paul Walter fell to James Coles and Jack Carson, respectively, before a wicket in each of the next four overs repeatedly stunted any attempt to fight back, with no other batter able to pass 11.
Ben Allison did at least allow the Eagles to finish with a flourish by hitting Australian Nathan McAndrew, who was the pick of the visitors’ bowlers with 3/33, for two fours from the final two balls.
The target was, though, instantly made to feel somewhat light in the powerplay, as an enormous over from Hughes off Daniel Sams saw the Sharks get off to a flier at 92-0 after six.
Matt Critchley recovered from being hit for two sixes by Ward to remove Hughes, caught by Shane Snater, but Sussex continued to cruise ominously at 129-1 halfway through their overs.
Essex drew blood again as Ward edged Allison to Rossington behind the stumps five deliveries later, though Simpson and Coles were able to confidently guide the visitors to victory without further loss.
Simpson finished unbeaten on 45 from 28, while Coles made 18 not out off 12 as the Eagles were uncharacteristically defeated at Chelmsford for the first time in any format this season.
The Eagles Have Landed: The 2024 Vitality Blast at The Cloud County Ground
Thursday 20 June, 7:00pm: Essex v Hampshire Hawks – buy here Friday 05 July, 7:00pm: Essex v Somerset – SOLD OUT Thursday 11 July, 7:00pm: Essex v Kent Spitfires – buy here Sunday 14 July, 2:30pm: Essex v Surrey – buy here
Essex: Adam Rossington+, Dean Elgar, Michael Pepper, Jordan Cox, Paul Walter, Matt Critchley, Daniel Sams, Simon Harmer*, Shane Snater, Luc Benkenstein, Aaron Beard.
Glamorgan: Eddie Byrom, Kiran Carlson*, Sam Northeast, Marnus Labuschagne, Colin Ingram, Chris Cooke+, Dan Douthwaite, Timm van der Gugten, Andy Gorvin, Mason Crane, Jamie McIlroy.
Match Details:
Umpires: Mark Newell & Paul Pollard Match Referee: Dean Cosker Toss: Essex won the toss and chose to bowl Result: Essex won by two wickets
Luc Benkenstein displayed a maturity beyond his years to star with the bat as Essex fought back to record a nail-biting two-wicket win over Glamorgan at The Cloud County Ground.
Benkenstein hit 35 and Shane Snater made 20 as Essex, having earlier suffered a middle-order stumble, valiantly sealed their second Vitality Blast victory in a row by chasing down Glamorgan’s 166-8.
Colin Ingram top-scored for the visitors with a fifty, while Daniel Sams and Paul Walter equally shared six wickets.
The chase was very far from straightforward, but a thoroughly admirable late effort from Snater and Benkenstein was enough to tick off the runs and see the Eagles over the line with a little more than one over to spare.
Having chosen to allow the Welsh visitors first use of the pitch, Daniel Sams made an immediate impact when he bowled Eddie Byrom for a five-ball duck as the opener attempted to scoop.
That was the highlight of a wicket maiden to kick-start proceedings, and the hosts enjoyed a dominant powerplay, restricting Glamorgan to just 31 runs off the opening six overs.
Within that, another wicket fell, with Sam Northeast departing for five via a Matt Critchley catch at short third off the bowling of the returning Shane Snater.
Glamorgan’s apparent inability to time the ball continued to afflict them, as it took until the end of the ninth over, and two Marnus Labuschagne swept fours, until the scoreboard showed 50.
Indeed, they were still scoring at less than a run per ball at the ten-over mark, as Simon Harmer rotated his attack frequently to restrict them to 58-2 at exactly halfway.
Two sixes from captain Kiran Carlson did provide some impetus, but the return of Critchley for his third over put the brakes back on as Carlson top-edged to Luc Benkenstein running behind square for 36.
Walter then continued to turn the screw as he did for Labuschagne, with the Australian star offering up a catch to a diving Jordan Cox at mid-off to depart for a 27-ball 34.
That brought big-hitting South African Ingram to the crease, and he did provide the lift Glamorgan were desperately searching for with a series of boundaries to haul the score past 100.
He ended up striking 52 from 29, adding 48 with the similarly pugnacious Chris Cooke before the latter skied Sams to Benkenstein in the 18th over.
Two further wickets, those of Dan Douthwaite and Timm van der Gugten – both caught – bookended Walter’s last over, with Glamorgan still short of 150.
They did sneak past that milestone in Sams’ final over as Ingram went to fifty, but his wicket ensured the Eagles ended the stronger, restricting the visitors to what felt like a significantly below-par total.
Byrom’s tough evening then continued to kick off the Essex chase, as he shelled a Dean Elgar flick at fine leg and allowed the ball through for the hosts’ first boundary.
From there, Adam Rossington demonstrated exactly how a powerplay should work, blasting van der Gugten’s opening over for 19 and following up with a further big pulled maximum off Jamie McIlroy.
The Essex 50, brought up a full four overs faster than the counterpart one in the first innings, was followed up by a rare passage of four overthrows to result in five runs coming off one ball.
It all combined to give the hosts a barnstorming start to the chase as the powerplay totalled 73, and Michael Pepper picked up where he had left off against Middlesex to keep the momentum going.
He was unperturbed by the loss of Rossington for 48, caught on the straight boundary by Jamie McIlroy off Labuschagne for a fiery 24-ball 48 that included three sixes, and Cox, to hit six boundaries.
The Eagles did, however, have work still to do when Pepper was bowled by Crane for 31 from just 14 and Walter followed at the hands of Labuschagne.
Snater and Benkenstein looked to get the chase back on course, and bit-by-bit, they did so, allowing more freedom as their partnership built.
On a night of the highest tension, the Eagles were finally able to breathe a sigh of relief when Benkenstein, after several balls of hesitance, lifted Labuschagne for the winning runs in the 19th over.
The Eagles Have Landed: The 2024 Vitality Blast at The Cloud County Ground
Fresh from a Finals Day appearance last summer, Essex are now back in Vitality Blast action for 2024.
Demand remains exceptionally high, and two out of the five remaining home matches are already sold out.
With the Eagles aiming to go one better in 2024, there is no time to waste to snap up your seats.
Friday 14 June, 7:00pm: Essex v Sussex Sharks – SOLD OUT Thursday 20 June, 7:00pm: Essex v Hampshire Hawks – buy here Friday 05 July, 7:00pm: Essex v Somerset – SOLD OUT Thursday 11 July, 7:00pm: Essex v Kent Spitfires – buy here Sunday 14 July, 2:30pm: Essex v Surrey – buy here
Surrey: Ed Harvey, Joe Fisher, Sam Mannion, Mark Pilkington, Jason Talmer, Matt Harris, Frazer Fowler, Matthew Browne, Kashif Kashif, Thomas Davies.
Essex Hawks: Andrew Mowatt, Matthew Hazell, James Ward, Lee Wheeler, Martyn Doe, Issac Elles, Billy Gibbons, Benny Fryett, Alfie Jeeves, Matthew Thomas, Jack Gair
Toss: Surrey won the toss and elected to bat Result: Surrey won by 54 runs
Match Report
Words: Brian Jeeves Image: Neil Robinson
Essex Falcons slipped to their second D40 Pursuit South-East defeat of the season as hosts Surrey recorded a 54-run victory in a fixture staged at Ashford Cricket Club, Staines.
Having won the toss and handed Essex the ball, Surrey’s top-order batters made swift progress, most notably Sam Mannion, who hit a half-century before becoming one of four victims to Essex spinner Isaac Elles. The home side posted 193 for eight, with Joe Fisher hitting 37 and wicketkeeper/batter Ed Harvey 29.
Elles was the pick of the visitors’ attack, returning impressive bowling figures of 8-1-33-4. Matt Thomas delivered a tight spell, returning one for 22 from an impressive seven overs, while Billy Gibbons and skipper Lee Wheeler were also amongst the wickets.
The Essex response was solid and steady but lacked consistent momentum to chase down their target. Wheeler top-scored with an unbeaten 37*, while opener Andrew Mowatt hit 36. Elles followed up his performance with the ball, finishing not out 19. Surrey’s Matt Harris took two for 24 from eight overs, helping his side home with some to spare.
Essex County Cricket Club has been charged by the Cricket Regulator for breaching ECB Directive 3.3 between 2001 and 2010.
The charges relate to the use of racist and/or discriminatory language and conduct during this period.
The Club has fully cooperated with the Cricket Regulator and will continue to do so throughout the process, and intends to participate willingly with the Cricket Discipline Commission.
Somerset: Tom Banton†, Will Smeed, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Tom Abell, Sean Dickson, Lewis Gregory*, Ben Green, Craig Overton, Roelof van der Merwe, Jake Ball, Riley Meredith.
Essex: Adam Rossington+, Dean Elgar, Michael Pepper, Jordan Cox, Paul Walter, Matt Critchley, Daniel Sams, Simon Harmer*, Luc Benkenstein, Ben Allison, Aaron Beard.
Match Details:
Umpires: Robert White & Ian Blackwell Match Referee: Mike Smith Toss: Somerset won the toss and elected to bowl Result: Somerset won by four wickets
Dean Elgar struck his first T20 fifty in Essex colours but Tom Abell and Lewis Gregory’s stand of 60 in 30 balls saw Somerset take a nail-biting four-wicket victory against Essex at the Cooper Associates County Ground.
Abell top-scored with 55 from 36 balls and Gregory smashed 44 from 22 deliveries as Somerset reached their target of 194 with five balls to spare in a repeat of last year’s final.
Tom Banton, Will Smeed and Sean Dickson also made useful contributions in front of the Sky TV cameras to leave Essex and Elgar, who made a 51-ball 77, crestfallen.
Playing against his former county, Elgar top-scored on his return to the West Country, accruing eight fours and two sixes and sharing in stands of 67 and 58 with Adam Rossington and Jordan Cox for the first and third wickets respectively as Essex posted 193-6.
Rossington contributed 32 and Cox 30, while Gregory returned figures of 3-42 off four overs in what was an excellent individual performance with bat and ball.
Determined to make a better fist of batting first following defeat to Gloucestershire at Bristol in their opening fixture 24 hours earlier, Essex made a reassuringly solid start on this occasion, Rossington and Elgar staging a stand of 67 in 7.3 overs.
With big shoes to fill after replacing Matt Henry as overseas pace spearhead, Australian Riley Meredith at least managed to keep things tight during three overs from the Marcus Trescothick Pavilion End that cost 16 runs.
But Craig Overton proved significantly more expensive at the other end, the former England bowler conceding five fours and a six in going for 32 in three overs as the visitors raised 56 without loss from the powerplay, big-hitting Rossington proving especially destructive.
Having already harvested five fours, Rossington greeted Roelof van der Merwe with a towering six hit straight back over the spinner’s head, only to then lose his off stump to Gregory in the act of swinging in the next over.
His swashbuckling innings of 32, made from 24 balls, at least afforded the visitors a platform from which to launch.
Michael Pepper came and went quickly, attempting to reverse sweep van der Merwe and offering a straightforward catch to Ben Green at short third man with the score on 74 in the ninth.
If home supporters sensed an opportunity to turn the tide, they were quickly disabused of the idea as Cox went on the attack.
He first lifted Jake Ball over deep backward point for a maximum and then pulled the next ball for four as the eleventh over yielded 14 runs to propel Essex into three figures.
Setting himself to bat through, the redoubtable Elgar found acceleration at the right time to go to 50 via 35 balls, reaching that landmark courtesy of his fifth four, a flowing off drive at the expense of Green.
Somerset needed a break and it arrived in the fifteenth over, Cox miscuing to extra cover off the bowling of Gregory and departing for a 23-ball 30.
He and Elgar had added 58 in 5.5 overs and set the stage for the big-hitting Paul Walter, who announced himself with a brace of fours and a six in the same Gregory over.
Back came the home side, Ball bowling Walter for 18 and Green making a mess of Daniel Sams’ stumps to partially redress the balance.
But Elgar was not finished, the veteran South African campaigner plundering 15 runs off the eighteenth to spoil Green’s figures on his way to a superb 77, and only succumbing to Gregory in the final over.
Somerset required a flying start and Tom Banton displayed aggressive intent by driving Aaron Beard over long-on for six and then collecting sumptuous cover-driven fours at the expense of Sams and Ben Allison.
Not wanting to appear tardy in comparison, Will Smeed pulled Allison to the boundary and then mustered a brace of sixes in plundering 20 from Walter’s first over to bring a packed audience to life.
Beard afforded Essex some relief, having Banton held at mid-wicket for a 14-ball 21 with the score on 49 in the fifth, but Smeed continued to trade in boundaries, smiting Sams for two successive maximums.
His mercurial innings came to an abrupt halt when he drove the very next ball to cover and departed for a 16-ball 39, having mustered 3 fours and a quartet of sixes as the home side reached 64-2 at the end of the powerplay.
Tom Kohler-Cadmore fell to Critchley in the next over, brilliantly caught by the diving Simon Harmer at mid-off, as Essex deployed spin at both ends in an attempt to apply pressure.
Somerset reached halfway on 90-3, requiring a further 104 runs at 10.4 an over, and Dickson brought up three figures with a straight-driven six off Critchley.
Meanwhile, Abell found the boundary often enough to keep the chase on track during the middle overs, smashing two fours and a six off the thirteenth, sent down by Luc Benkenstein, to bring up the 50 partnership in 36 balls.
But Beard returned to have Dickson caught in the deep for a 19-ball 26 as an enthralling contest took another twist.
New batsman Gregory injected immediate excitement, pulling Allison for a huge six, at which point the home side required a further 54 runs from 30 balls.
Crucially, the fifth wicket pair were able to keep the rate at around ten an over, Abell going to 50 via 31 balls with his first six.
Somerset needed a big over and Gregory provided it by smashing three sixes off the seventeenth, bowled by Critchley, to bring the rate under a run a ball for the first time.
Abell contributed 5 fours and a six before being caught at the wicket off the bowling of Walter, while Gregory mustered 4 sixes and a brace of fours to put the outcome beyond doubt as Somerset’s renowned batting line-up came good at the death.
The Eagles Have Landed: The 2024 Vitality Blast at The Cloud County Ground
Fresh from a Finals Day appearance last summer, Essex return to shortest-format action in Chelmsford from Sunday 02 June.
Demand remains exceptionally high, and there are now only 15% of tickets remaining across all seven home fixtures, with two already sold out.
With the Eagles aiming to go one better in 2024, there is no time to waste to snap up your seats.
Sunday 02 June, 4:00pm: Essex v Middlesex – buy here Friday 07 June, 7:00pm: Essex v Glamorgan – buy here(LAST FEW TICKETS) Friday 14 June, 7:00pm: Essex v Sussex Sharks – SOLD OUT Thursday 20 June, 7:00pm: Essex v Hampshire Hawks – buy here Friday 05 July, 7:00pm: Essex v Somerset – SOLD OUT Thursday 11 July, 7:00pm: Essex v Kent Spitfires – buy here Sunday 14 July, 2:30pm: Essex v Surrey – buy here
Kent: Ben Compton, Zak Crawley, Daniel Bell-Drummond*, Marcus O’Riordan, Joe Denly, Harry Finch+, Joey Evison, Grant Stewart, Wes Agar, Matt Parkinson, Arafat Bhuiyan.
Essex: Nick Browne, Dean Elgar, Tom Westley*, Jordan Cox, Matt Critchley, Michael Pepper+, Simon Harmer, Shane Snater, Aaron Beard, Sam Cook, Jamie Porter.
Match Details:
Umpires: Tom Lungley & Mark Newell Match Referee: Jason Swift Toss: Essex won the toss and elected to bat Result: Essex won by an innings and 96 runs
Essex have routed Kent by an innings and 96 runs in the Vitality County Championship at Canterbury.
Simon Harmer took four for 32 and Shane Snater three for 15 as the visitors skittled Kent for 109 in their second innings, to cut the gap to championship leaders Surrey to just two points.
Joe Denly’s 23 was Kent’s highest score and the hosts are destined to finish this round of fixtures at the bottom of the Division One table if Lancashire avoid defeat against Warwickshire at Old Trafford.
Kent were 197 behind going into the final day and home fans were hoping that a combination of the grit shown on day three and a biblical weather forecast might see them escape with a draw.
They were severely disappointed. There was torrential rain almost everywhere else in the county but play began on time and Kent endured a gruesome morning session, the tone for which was set when Zak Crawley survived just four balls before he was lbw to Snater.
Essex threw the ball to Harmer after just 12 overs and he struck with his third delivery to get Ben Compton lbw for 12. Marcus O’Riordan was next to go, making nine from 25 balls before Harmer had him caught at short leg by Nick Browne.
Daniel Bell-Drummond was lbw to Matt Critchley for 20 in the next over, the 20th and Harry Finch inexplicably tried to reverse sweep Harmer while on 4 and was lbw, although in mitigation he seemed to have been hit outside the line.
Kent were 64 for five at lunch, after which there was a mere 10-minute delay for rain.
Denly and Joey Evison at least offered some resistance, but having dealt with the spinners fairly comfortably Evison was lbw to Snater for 16. Snater then sent Grant Stewart’s off stump cartwheeling for one to claim his hundredth first class wicket for Essex.
Denly tried to drive Harmer but was caught by Aaron Beard for 23 and with Wes Agar unable to bat the victory was confirmed when Critchley got Parkinson lbw for 10 in the 58th over.
Day Three Highlights
Day Three Report
Kent fought back on day three of their Vitality County Championship derby with Essex on Canterbury, surviving till the final over of the day before they were after being bowled out for 349 in the final over.
Joe Denly 87 hit and Harry Finch 85 to boost the hosts’ chances of batting out a draw after they were dominated on the first two days.
Matt Critchley took five for 88, but Essex laboured without Sam Cook, who’d pulled up injured on day two.
The hosts’ morale had taken a battering on day two and they’d closed on 118 for four, still 473 in arrears, but they weren’t about to surrender without a fight.
Conditions were blustery and overcast at 11 am but the forecast rain failed to materialise and Denly and nightwatcher Matt Parkinson batted through the entire morning session.
There were occasional alarms, such as when Dean Elgar couldn’t cling on to a violently drive from Parkinson when he was on 31, but the spinner passed his previous first-class best of 39 with a single off Harmer and had made it to 45 at lunch, at which point Kent were 203 for four.
Denly then drove Snater for four to bring up his fifty, but Parkinson was denied a maiden red-ball 50 when Jamie Porter trapped him lbw.
Finch was on four when he pulled Beard to the boundary, but Critchley couldn’t pull off a tumbling catch and the drop proved expensive.
The only other wicket to fall in the session came when Denly, who looked destined for a century, misjudged a Critchley delivery and was caught by Aaron Beard at long on.
Successive byes from Critchley allowed Kent to get a third bonus point with four balls to spare in the 110th over and it was 302 for six at tea.
Finch glanced Beard for four to bring up his half-century and as the evening session dragged on Essex’s increasing frustration started to show with an embarrassing appeal for a catch against Joey Evison from a ball that had clearly been driven into the ground.
They finally broke through when Evison tried to sweep Tom Westley and was bowled for 29. Westley then had Finch lbw and with Wes Agar hurt after injuring his shoulder on day one Arafat Bhuiyan was sent out with Kent still 78 runs short of the follow on target and six overs remaining.
Grant Stewart played conservatively by his standards, but still managed to dump Westley for six over cow corner, only for Critchley to bowl Bhuiyan at 5:45pm, with two scheduled overs remaining.
Agar duly walked out needing to survive for three minutes to spare Kent an awkward over following on and he duly blocked out five balls to at least spare the hosts the dilemma of weather or not to send in a nightwatcher to open.
With the field in, Stewart then blasted Harmer for six in the day’s penultimate over, but Critchley pinned Agar lbw with the first ball of the last over, to set up a potentially fascinating final day.
Day Two Highlights
Day Two Report
Jordan Cox hit a double hundred for on his return to Canterbury as Essex dominated on day two of the Vitality County Championship game, declaring on 591-7 before they reducing Kent to 118-4 in reply.
Cox made a mammoth 207 on his first game back at the Spitfire Ground, in a 255-ball innings that included 21 fours and five sixes.
Shane Snater hit a career-best 83 not out and Michael Pepper made 82 before Matt Critchley took 2/19, including the key wicket of Kent’s top scorer Ben Compton, who made 41.
Joe Denly and nightwatcher Matt Parkinson were not out on four and 10 at stumps, with the hosts still trailing by 473.
With Essex on 287 for four overnight both sides felt the first hour would be crucial and it unfolded exactly as the majority of the crowd feared it would. It quickly became obvious this was going to be exactly the sort of day Kent supporters have endured too often this season and the news that Wes Agar was unable to bowl after injuring his shoulder yesterday did nothing to improve morale.
Cox had averaged just 24.06 in 2023, his final season for Kent, but he was averaging 66.66 coming into this game and having already scored a century in the fixture at Chelmsford there was an air of inevitability about his march to three figures this time round.
There was polite applause when he reached the landmark with a cover-driven four off Parkinson and he celebrated by gyrating his hips like a middle-aged uncle who’d accidentally wandered into a rave.
Kent then enjoyed a spasm of hope when they took two wickets in nine balls. The breakthrough came when Pepper slashed at Arafat Bhuiyan and was caught by the sub fielder Jaydn Denly at slip.
Simon Harmer then holed out to Parkinson for six, caught at the second attempt by a juggling sub fielder Joe Denly on the deep cover boundary, only for Snater to come in and joined Cox for the biggest partnership of the innings, taking Essex to 449 for six at lunch.
𝟖𝟑*Cox took a single off Bhuiyan to reach 150, then hit the same bowler for successive sixes, before Snater reached 50 with a single off Denly.
As Cox neared 200 Kent put every single fielder on the boundary, but he still found the backward square leg boundary to get to 199. The field duly came in and he drove Evison for a single, also bringing up Essex’s biggest seventh wicket partnership against Kent, beating the 152 set by Nadheem Shahid and Derek Pringle in 1992.
When Cox was finally bowled by Marcus O’Riordan Essex immediately declared and as much as it must have hurt the home fans to see a homegrown talent torment them, he walked off to applause from every section of the ground.
Zak Crawley immediately went on the attack, but he’d made just 16 from 12 balls when he edged Sam Cook to Dean Elgar at first slip.
Daniel Bell-Drummond was on 0 when he was dropped by Aaron Beard, but the fielder atoned when strangled Bell-Drummond for 16 in the penultimate over before tea, leaving the hosts on 48 for two at the end of the session.
Cook left the field after feeling his hamstring whilst bowling and is being assessed by the Club’s medical team. O’Riordan was Matt Critchley’s first wicket of the match after being out lbw for 30, .
Ben Compton marked his 15th scalp of the season, again lbw for 41, trying to sweep Critchley, leaving Matt Parkinson to come in as the nightwatcher with over five overs left, a dangerous spell which he just about survived.
Day One Highlights
Day One Report
Essex recovered from an early evening wobble to reach 287 for four at stumps on day one of the Vitality County Championship derby with Kent at Canterbury.
Openers Dean Elgar and Nick Browne scored 77 and 65 respectively, putting on 146 for the first wicket.
Joey Evison took two for 38 for a Kent attack weakened by injuries, but after reducing Essex to 224 for four, they were unable to shift either Jordan Cox or Michael Pepper, who were unbeaten on 51 and 35 at the close.
When Essex won the toss and chose to bat a collective groan was uttered by the Spitfire Ground die-hards, who came in hope rather than expectation.
A healthy first day crowd of 1,200 watched a one-sided first session unfold as an undercooked attack toiled.
Browne was on nought when he drove at Stewart and Joey Evison couldn’t cling on to a tough chance at mid-on, but that was about as close as Kent came during a sterile opening session.
The hosts’ morning was summed up when Dean Elgar reached 60 after a misfield from Zak Crawley, who sprinted 50 yards and clawed the ball back from the boundary, only for it to ricochet off his trailing arm and go back over the rope for four.
An already injury-hit bowling attack was weakened further when Wes Agar injured his shoulder while fielding just before lunch, at which point it was 102 for nought.
Browne reached 50 with two off Evison, but Matt Parkinson finally broke through in the 46th over, when Elgar charged down the wicket and was stumped by Harry Finch.
Evison then produced a beauty that swing back in and bowled Browne middle-stump, which meant it was time for Cox to walk out at the St. Lawrence for the first time since his cross-Thames flit last year.
He was given diplomatic applause, took ten balls to get off the mark and then hit Parkinson back over his head for six. At that point Cox looked like he was going to “go hard or go home”, but he reined himself in the face of some miserly Kent bowling and it was 185 for two at tea.
Tom Westley flashed at Arafat Bhuiyan and was caught at first slip by Crawley for 21, but Grant Stewart couldn’t hold on to a violent return catch offered by Cox when he was on 15.
Matt Critchley survived a strong lbw shot from Evison, only to be trapped in front by the same bowler in his next over for 13, but Kent opted not to take the new ball due to Agar’s ongoing absence.
Cox continued to play watchfully while Pepper injected some aggression to tilt the contest back in Essex’s favour. They made an unbroken stand of 63 during the day’s final hour and Cox brought up his half-century with successive fours off Parkinson in the final over.
The Eagles Have Landed: The 2024 Vitality Blast at The Cloud County Ground
Fresh from a Finals Day appearance last summer, Essex return to shortest-format action in Chelmsford from Sunday 02 June.
Demand remains exceptionally high, and there are now only 15% of tickets remaining across all seven home fixtures, with two already sold out.
With the Eagles aiming to go one better in 2024, there is no time to waste to snap up your seats.
Sunday 02 June, 4:00pm: Essex v Middlesex – buy here Friday 07 June, 7:00pm: Essex v Glamorgan – buy here(LAST FEW TICKETS) Friday 14 June, 7:00pm: Essex v Sussex Sharks – SOLD OUT Thursday 20 June, 7:00pm: Essex v Hampshire Hawks – buy here Friday 05 July, 7:00pm: Essex v Somerset – SOLD OUT Thursday 11 July, 7:00pm: Essex v Kent Spitfires – buy here Sunday 14 July, 2:30pm: Essex v Surrey – buy here
Your votes saw Sam Cook win the Player of the Match award following Essex’s Vitality County Championship Division One fixture against Somerset at the Cooper Associates County Ground.
Cook, who ripped through the hosts’ batting line-up late on Day One with a return of 5/38, received 53.9% of votes in the poll on Essex Cricket’s X page.
The other half of his fearsome seam duo, Jamie Porter, finished second with 31.6%, while all-rounder Shane Snater took 9.6% of votes and returning captain Tom Westley earned 4.8%.
It is the second time Cook has received the Player of the Match recognition, having previously done so following the Eagles’ first match of the season away to Nottinghamshire.
The Chelmsford-born 26-year-old now has 14 five-wicket hauls in his first-class career, totalling 290 scalps in the format at an eye-catching average of just 19.19.
In a low-scoring encounter, Essex eked out a 28-run first-innings lead by bowling Somerset out for 128, but were narrowly unable to defend a second-innings target of 167 as the hosts won by three wickets.
Anthony McGrath’s side are now top of Division One on 74 points heading into their bye week, with fixtures against Warwickshire and Kent to come before the end of May.
The Eagles Have Landed: The 2024 Vitality Blast at The Cloud County Ground
Fresh from a Finals Day appearance last summer, Essex return to shortest-format action in Chelmsford from Sunday 02 June.
Demand remains exceptionally high, and there are now only 15% of tickets remaining across all seven home fixtures, with two already sold out.
With the Eagles aiming to go one better in 2024, there is no time to waste to snap up your seats.
Sunday 02 June, 4:00pm: Essex v Middlesex – buy here Friday 07 June, 7:00pm: Essex v Glamorgan – buy here(LAST FEW TICKETS) Friday 14 June, 7:00pm: Essex v Sussex Sharks – SOLD OUT Thursday 20 June, 7:00pm: Essex v Hampshire Hawks – buy here Friday 05 July, 7:00pm: Essex v Somerset – SOLD OUT Thursday 11 July, 7:00pm: Essex v Kent Spitfires – buy here Sunday 14 July, 2:30pm: Essex v Surrey – buy here
Somerset: Matt Renshaw, Sean Dickson, Tom Lammonby, Andy Umeed, Tom Banton, James Rew+, Lewis Gregory*, Craig Overton, Migael Pretorius, Josh Davey, Jake Ball.
Essex: Nick Browne, Dean Elgar, Tom Westley*, Jordan Cox, Matt Critchley, Noah Thain, Harry Duke+, Simon Harmer, Shane Snater, Sam Cook, Jamie Porter.
Match Details:
Umpires: James Middlebrook & Alex Wharf Match Referee: Phil Whitticase Toss: Somerset won the toss and elected to bowl Result: Somerset won by 3 wickets
Essex fell to a first defeat of the campaign at the hands of Somerset in a chaotic match at Taunton.
After setting Somerset 167 runs to win, openers Matt Renshaw and Sean Dickson produced a crucial partnership to blunt Essex’s fearsome new ball attack and despite a strong Essex comeback, Somerset crept over the line for victory with three wickets to spare.
A target of 167 to win looked stiff for the home batting line-up given what had gone before. But Renshaw (35) and Dickson (42) put together an opening partnership of 75 and, although the Essex bowlers stuck gamely to their task, Somerset were favourites from that moment on.
Andy Umeed made 34 and Tom Banton’s 29 off got them over the line to take 19 points, while Essex took three.
Somerset’s seamers were soon among the wickets when their opponents began the day on six without loss in their second innings. Dean Elgar glanced a catch to wicketkeeper James Rew off Davey at 11 for one and, with four runs added, Sam Cook was caught at third slip by Umeed off Craig Overton, fourth slip Dickson scooping the ball up one-handed to his team-mate.
It was 37 for three when Tom Westley fell lbw pushing forward to Davey before Nick Browne and Jordan Cox added 30. Browne, after a hard-fought 23, then got an inside edge onto his pad to send a delivery from Gregory looping up for a catch at third slip.
It was 95 for four at lunch, with the Essex lead at 123 and the game in the balance. The fifth wicket fell on 106, Matt Critchley nicking a ball from Davey through to Rew, who claimed a low diving catch in front of the slips.
Cox showed great restraint in making a valiant 27, but fell to a gruesome Overton delivery before Thain and Duke combined to take the Essex score to 137.
The last four Essex wickets fell in quick succession, Duke feathering a defensive shot off Jake Ball through to Rew and Thain pinned lbw by Gregory.
Simon Harmer was trapped leg before by Ball and when Rew produced another low diving catch to send last man Jamie Porter back for a duck it meant a third wicket for Gregory.
Soon openers Renshaw and Dickson set about the target of 167 in positive fashion against Cook and Porter with the sun shining brightly. Both went for their shots and by tea they had taken the score to 45 without loss off 11 overs, leaving Somerset needing just 122 more runs for victory.
Dickson took the stand past 50 with a glorious off-drive for four off Shane Snater and followed up with a six over long-on in the same over. Renshaw joined in with a flashing square drive for four off Cook.
When Renshaw edged Snater the ball fell agonisingly short of the slip cordon. Cook gave Essex hope by dismissing Renshaw lbw with the total on 75, but by then only 92 were required.
Dickson followed in the next over, caught behind the ball after hitting his third four and suddenly Somerset had two new batsmen at the crease. But Umeed carried on applying pressure to the Essex bowlers, hitting two straight fours in an over from Cook.
Lammonby matched his first innings patience, but having faced 23 balls without scoring he padded up to a delivery from Snater which nipped in off the seam and fell lbw with 68 still needed.
Umeed had faced 55 balls, hitting 5 fours, when edging a ball from Snater, which cannoned off wicketkeeper Duke and looped to Harmer at second slip.
Migael Pretorius lofted a catch to extra cover off Cook and Rew fell to a Snater deliver that skimmed off-stump. Banton’s played a sensible knock and had almost seen his side home when he also fell to Snater who was the pick of the Essex bowlers with four second-innings wickets.
It was left to Overton to hit the winning boundary off Porter in the second additional over of the day.
Day One Highlights
Day One Report
Twenty wickets fell, all to seam bowling, on an action-packed opening day of Somerset’s Vitality County Championship First Division match with Essex at Taunton.
Migael Pretorius led the way for the hosts, claiming four for 36 as Essex were bowled out for 156, having lost the toss on an overcast morning. There were two wickets each for Craig Overton and Jake Ball on a green pitch.
Only Tom Westley (43) and Harry Duke (25) offered much resistance. Somerset then folded to 128 all out in reply, Jamie Porter (five for 37) and Sam Cook (five for 38) doing all the damage, with Tom Lammonby battling his way to 38.
Essex were left with one over to face at the end of the day and posted six without loss, Cook opening with Dean Elgar.
The carnage began with the Essex score on 14, Elgar lbw to Josh Davey falling across his stumps. Four runs later Nick Browne was bowled off an inside edge by Overton and it was 28 for three when Jordan Cox fell to the same bowler, Lammonby holding a sharp catch at second slip.
It was the prelude to some excellent fielding by Somerset. Matt Critchley was snapped up at third slip by Sean Dickson off Pretorius to make it 45 for four in the 14th over.
Noah Thain contributed 14 before departing to a brilliant low catch by Overton diving forward at second slip off Ball and at lunch Essex were in trouble at 97 for five.
Duke brought the hundred up with a superb extra cover drive for four off Lewis Gregory and also off-drove Overton for a boundary before the sixth wicket went down on 111.
Westley had looked more comfortable than most facing 84 balls and hitting 6 fours before allowing a full delivery from Gregory to sneak between bat and pad onto his stumps.
Simon Harmer helped Duke take the total 132 before driving at a wide ball from Pretorius and edging through to wicketkeeper James Rew. With 13 more added, Duke’s watchful 79-ball innings ended in similar fashion, caught behind off Pretorius driving.
Cook fell for a duck, Rew diving to his right to hold a fine low catch off Ball and the innings ended with Shane Snater skying a catch to give Pretorius his fourth scalp.
Tea was taken and it did not take Essex long to fight back as the eighth ball of the Somerset innings saw Matt Renshaw caught at mid-off, getting a leading edge to a delivery from Cook.
Dickson hit a defiant six over wide long-on off Cook. But when application was required, he fell to another attacking shot, caught at second slip driving loosely at Porter.
Andy Umeed also looked to attack, pulling a six over square leg off Porter and repeating the dose off Snater, while Lammonby played in more orthodox fashion.
It was a defensive shot that cost Umeed his wicket, edging Cook to Harmer at second slip on 31 with the total 53. Tom Banton had made only four when another edge to third slip off Cook cost him his wicket.
Somerset were in a hole at 66 for five when Rew, also on four, was pinned lbw by Porter trapped on the crease. Skipper Gregory then survived a huge appeal for a catch behind off the very next ball.
Cook and Porter bowled 23 of the first 28 overs of the innings between them, Cook returning three for 23 from 11 and Porter two for 24 from 12. After a brief rest, both returned and Porter added Gregory to his victims, lbw on the back foot playing across the line.
Lammonby had fought resolutely for 116 balls when caught at first slip driving to give Porter a five-for. Overton managed a few lusty blows before edging Porter to third slip for the 17th wicket of the day. Somerset still trailed by 35.
The Eagles Have Landed: The 2024 Vitality Blast at The Cloud County Ground
Fresh from a Finals Day appearance last summer, Essex return to shortest-format action in Chelmsford from Sunday 02 June.
Demand remains exceptionally high, and there are now only 15% of tickets remaining across all seven home fixtures, with two already sold out.
With the Eagles aiming to go one better in 2024, there is no time to waste to snap up your seats.
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Durham: Alex Lees, Scott Borthwick*, Colin Ackermann, David Bedingham, Ollie Robinson+, Graham Clark, Brydon Carse, Paul Coughlin, Ben Raine, Matthew Potts, Callum Parkinson.
Essex: Dean Elgar, Feroze Khushi, Nick Browne, Jordan Cox, Matt Critchley, Noah Thain, Harry Duke+, Simon Harmer, Shane Snater, Sam Cook*, Jamie Porter.
Match Details:
Umpires: Rob White & David Millns Match Referee: Will Smith Toss: Durham won the toss and elected to bat
Nick Browne scored his first Championship century this season and Callum Parkinson collected his maiden five-wicket haul for Durham, but the Vitality County Championship at the Seat Unique Riverside ended in a draw.
Such an outcome had always appeared probable once the third day’s play had been lost. However, having made 488 and taken a 130-run lead on first innings, Essex did their best to force a victory on the final afternoon, only for their efforts to founder on the broad bat of Alex Lees, who made 48 not out in 128 minutes and had steered his side to 131 for two when rain and bad light stopped play at 4.40.
The teams shook hands shortly afterwards, at which point David Bedingham, Lees’ third-wicket partner, was unbeaten on 33.
The most notable event of the morning session came in the fifth over of the day when Browne back cut Ben Raine to the boundary to reach his first hundred in 22 Championship innings, a bleak run stretching back to the game against Kent in April 2023.
Browne’s century was also a tribute to his patience in this match. He had batted 286 minutes and faced 238 balls to reach the landmark. Five overs later, another boundary from Browne brought Essex their third batting point but that achievement was swiftly followed by the dismissal of Jordan Cox, who was bowled by Callum Parkinson for 36 when he played outside a ball that was deflected via the back pad to the leg stump.
Parkinson soon collected his second wicket of the morning when he clean bowled Matt Critchley for three with a fine ball that turned past the outside edge and hit off stump. Noah Thain then helped Browne add 55 in 11 overs before being caught at midwicket by Scott Borthwick off Colin Ackermann for 23, but Essex reached lunch on 450 for six with Browne unbeaten on 169.
The visitors looked to score quick runs in the afternoon session and lost four wickets in doing so, including two run outs in three balls. Browne departed for 184 when attempting a third run and failing to beat Alex Lees throw from fine leg and then Harry Duke was sent back by Simon Harmer but Borthwick’s return from midwicket was too sharp.
Parkinson then dismissed Harmer and Jamie Porter in the same over to finish with five for 131 from 31 overs in Essex’s 488 all out.
The visitors’ hopes of causing a collapse were boosted when Borthwick played across a ball from Porter and was lbw for four in the third over of Durham’s second innings. However, Lees and Ackermann put on 75 for the second wicket before Ackermann was caught at slip by Cox off Critchley for 32, a fate that had appeared to befall him on 20, only for the umpires to rule that the ball hadn’t carried.
Durham took 12 points from the game and Essex received 14, a return which leaves the visitors equal on points with Surrey at the top of the First Division. Surrey lead the table purely by virtue of having taken one wicket more than Essex this season.
Day Two Highlights
Day Two Reaction: Feroze Khushi
Day Two Report
A century by Feroze Khushi and Nick Browne’s unbeaten 94 enabled Essex to take control of their Vitality County Championship match against Durham at the Seat Unique Riverside.
Replying to the home side’s 358, the First Division leaders were 314 for three at the close, leaving their side just 44 runs in arrears and perhaps laying the foundations for Essex’s third victory in four matches this season.
Durham’s batters will have something to say about that, of course, on top of which this Riverside pitch is still good for batting and the weather forecast for Sunday is grim. But nothing should detract from the quality of Khushi’s chanceless century, the second of his career and his first since he reached three figures at Canterbury in 2022.
And even when the 24-year-old had been dismissed by Callum Parkinson for 107, Browne shared an unbroken stand of 54 with Jordan Cox to leave his side well placed to take a first-innings lead.
The first wicket to fall in the morning session was that of the nightwatchman, Sam Cook, who was bowled by Paul Coughlin for 25 in the nineteenth over of the innings. By then, however, the stand-in Essex skipper had helped Dean Elgar put on 64 for the first wicket, a partnership which removed much of the shine from the new ball.
Five minutes before lunch, however, Durham took the wicket they most wanted when Elgar’s loose drive outside the off stump to a ball from Matthew Potts edged a catch to Ollie Robinson. T
he opener’s dismissal for 46 left his side on 97 for two at lunch but Potts could reflect that he had been unfortunate not to get an lbw decision against the South African in the first half-hour of play, a period in which Ben Raine had also had two confident leg before appeals against Elgar turned down.
In the afternoon session, Khushi and Browne carefully consolidated their side’s position with Khushi being especially quick to seize on anything loose, driving and pulling Brydon Carse to the boundary in the space of three balls.
He reached his fifty off 102 balls when he off-drove Parkinson to the boundary and celebrated the achievement two deliveries later with a straight drive for four.
The hundred partnership was put up in less than two hours and perhaps the most noticeable feature of the afternoon session was the ease with which the pair dealt with Durham’s six-man attack on a good batting pitch.
Off-spinner Colin Ackermann bowled the last over before tea, at which point Essex were 220 for two, with Khushi on 88 and Browne unbeaten on 46.
The evening session continued much like the afternoon’s. Carse overpitched in the first over after the resumption and Khushi clipped him through midwicket for four to get into the nineties.
A glance to fine leg two overs later and then a punch through midwicket off Ackermann took him to his hundred off 156 balls. He had batted 203 minutes and hit 16 fours.
Ten minutes later, Browne reached his fifty off 143 balls via a slice of good fortune when an attempted off-drive to a ball from Ackermann only produced an edge between Robinson and first slip Coughlin.
Liberated by that achievement, Browne took two successive fours off Ackermann but three overs later, Khushi drove Parkinson straight to Graham Clark at shortish extra cover and departed for 107.
Browne and his new partner Jordan Cox soon had to face the challenge of the new ball but they did so with little fuss.
Day One Highlights
Day One Reaction: Harry Duke
Day One Report
Colin Ackermann’s century failed to deter a spirited Essex bowling attack from dismissing Durham for 358 on Day One of the sides’ Vitality County Championship contest at Seat Unique Riverside.
Ackermann struck a fine 112 and two further home batters made it to fifty, but the perseverance of Jamie Porter and Sam Cook, the latter in his first outing as captain, brought them three wickets apiece.
Simon Harmer and Shane Snater also took two scalps each as Durham were dismissed in the final trappings of the day, leaving Essex to bat out two overs.
Dean Elgar and nightwatchman Cook survived them, reaching stumps on 5-0 to give the hosts an overall lead of 353.
Despite winning the toss and electing to bat, Durham skipper Scott Borthwick may have found himself initially regretting his call as his side slipped to 11-2.
Borthwick himself was first to go for seven as debutant Harry Duke took an outstanding low one-handed catch off Jamie Porter, before the same fate befell Alex Lees for four, this time off Sam Cook.
A counter-attacking fifty from David Bedingham saw the hosts regain an even keel, but Porter ensured the South African would progress no further by knocking back his off stump for a 51-ball 52.
Following lunch, which was taken with Durham 129-3, Ollie Robinson became the second swift half-centurion of the day, doing so in 48 balls as the hosts gained the upper hand in the early afternoon.
It was the in-form Robinson’s sixth consecutive fifty, as he and Ackermann, who also reached the milestone, took the hosts beyond 200.
However, Simon Harmer prised an opening for Essex by taking two wickets in 12 balls, first removing Robinson when on 90, before sharply turning one back into Graham Clark’s middle stump for three.
Brydon Carse was removed just after tea, pinned lbw for 18 by a full Cook delivery, before Ackermann went to his ton with a cut four off Harmer.
Even as the hosts collected three batting points, the arrival of the new ball allowed the Eagles to polish off the tail, with Cook pinning Ackermann lbw and Paul Coughlin caught by Browne off Porter for 30.
Snater then removed the final pair of Matt Potts and Ben Raine, lbw and caught by Jordan Cox respectively, allowing Cook and Elgar the opportunity to commence the Essex response.
The Eagles Have Landed: The 2024 Vitality Blast at The Cloud County Ground
Fresh from a Finals Day appearance last summer, Essex return to shortest-format action in Chelmsford from Sunday 02 June.
Demand remains exceptionally high, and there is now just one Friday night fixture with availability remaining, the visit of Glamorgan to The Cloud County Ground on 07 June.
With the Eagles aiming to go one better in 2024, there is no time to waste to snap up your seats.
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A 157-run third wicket partnership between Alice MacLeod and Chiara Green saw Sussex to a seven-wicket win over Essex in both sides’ opening game of the 2024 Women’s County 50-Over.
Debutant MacLeod hit an unbeaten 84 from 92 balls, while captain Green made a more measured 68 as, despite being reduced to 6-2 early on, the visitors overhauled their target of 170 in 33 overs.
Green had won the toss and opted to insert the hosts at Felsted School, and her decision quickly paid off with the Eagles being reduced to 47-3 after 11 overs.
However, Matilda Callaghan and Katherine Speed, who both made 30 to share the highest individual score in the Essex innings, came together to add 31 before they were separated just before halfway.
Speed battled valiantly for her knock, and with Jasmine Westley for company, took the hosts past three figures before both departed by the end of the 35th over.
Wicketkeeper Yasmin Daswani added 22 from 33 late on to help the total go beyond 150, but the dismissal of Prisha Bedi off the penultimate ball of the 48th over ended the innings prematurely.
In response, Essex tails were up early as Sophia Mitchell struck gold twice in three deliveries in her opening over, bowling Lucy Western for a golden duck and pinning Izzy Collis lbw second ball.
Despite that lightning start, hopes faded as opener MacLeod and Green remained untroubled for the next 29 overs to chalk off the majority of the runs, with both making individual half-centuries.
Westley removed Green with seven still needed, caught by Speed, but the game was put to bed eight balls later as McLeod hit the winning single to confirm a successful chase.
Paul Davidge’s Eagles side are next in action away to Surrey in the same competition at Wimbledon CC on Bank Holiday Monday, 06 May.
Women’s Cricket at Chelmsford in 2024
Essex Women’s full fixture list for the 2024 season is available to view here.
Three fixtures will be staged at The Cloud County Ground, including the Battle of the Bridge T20 clash against Kent on Wednesday 07 August (6pm start).
England Women return to Chelmsford on Wednesday 29 May with Heather Knight’s team facing Pakistan in a Metro Bank One Day International. Play begins at 1pm for a day/night fixture under the lights at The Cloud County Ground.
Sunrisers will compete in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy (50-over) and Charlotte Edwards Cup (20-over) competitions at The Cloud County Ground with their opening 50-over match taking place on Saturday 27 April (10:30am) against The Blaze.
Tickets for all these fixtures are available now from essexcricket.org.uk and you can visit here for further information.
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