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Well if Sibley somehow hadn't booked his spot for the winter tours in capital letters he has now

Looks as the title is about to swing back in Essex favour after a huge post lunch collapse by Somerset ahead of the crunch game next week. Still a relegation spot to be decided between Surrey and Warks too. Just hope rain doesn't intervene next week too much and we get results
becoming a big Kyle Abbott fan so far this afternoon :)
Just 15 for 78 so far 😳

86/0 to 100/7 is even worse than their first innings collapse.


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Think we are destined to never win the CC

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Good to see Darren Stevens still doing well. He’s out of contract at the end of the season so his latest performance was well timed
 

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Good to see Darren Stevens still doing well. He’s out of contract at the end of the season so his latest performance was well timed


43 years old with a double ton and ten in the match! Thought he was retiring at the end of the season, is he looking for a new contract?


Saw a stat just now, only one batsman in the CC (Div1) has faced over 2000 balls this season, not surprisingly its Dominic Sibley and hes faced over 3000!!!!! Last year the outlier at the top was Rory Burns!
 

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well there were rumours going round last week that he wasnt technically good enough! they may have gone quiet for now though haha. as for face fitting, having left surrey to go to warks, probably not lol

Does look pretty unorthodox, but they've just been pummelled by someone with an unorthodox technique, and our best top order batter in the series is pretty unorthodox himself, so maybe they'll realise they're best off just picking blokes who can make runs, and they won't know he's not good enough unless he gets a go. Can't do any worse than Roy.

 

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Does look pretty unorthodox, but they've just been pummelled by someone with an unorthodox technique, and our best top order batter in the series is pretty unorthodox himself, so maybe they'll realise they're best off just picking blokes who can make runs, and they won't know he's not good enough unless he gets a go. Can't do any worse than Roy.


That’s a decent trigger movement but importantly his head stays pretty still
 
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Good to see Darren Stevens still doing well. He’s out of contract at the end of the season so his latest performance was well timed

Keep watching!

Believe he may be leaving Kent for another county at the end of this season.

Based upon a rumour I have heard.
 

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well there were rumours going round last week that he wasnt technically good enough! they may have gone quiet for now though haha. as for face fitting, having left surrey to go to warks, probably not lol

Imagine what England would have done with Steve Smith!

The obsession with technique and theorising over it really hampers English cricket.
 

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Imagine what England would have done with Steve Smith!

The obsession with technique and theorising over it really hampers English cricket.

He'd have been labelled no more than a slightly better Scott Borthwick, basically pigeon-holed as a lower order slogger and rubbish leg spinner.
 

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Get in there Essex! So glad to see them finally win the T20 Blast. Ravi has been consistently excellent all season, and I genuinely wouldn't be against him getting back in the England T20 side at 6 or 7. Fantastic finisher, so experienced in T20, bowls a few handy overs, brilliant in the field, he's a class act, always has been.

Hales
Bairstow
Malan
Morgan
Billings
Bopara
Willey
Curran
Jordan
Archer
Rashid

What a team that is in the T20 stuff.
 

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Get in there Essex! So glad to see them finally win the T20 Blast. Ravi has been consistently excellent all season, and I genuinely wouldn't be against him getting back in the England T20 side at 6 or 7. Fantastic finisher, so experienced in T20, bowls a few handy overs, brilliant in the field, he's a class act, always has been.

Hales
Bairstow
Malan
Morgan
Billings
Bopara
Willey
Curran
Jordan
Archer
Rashid

What a team that is in the T20 stuff.

No Buttler, stokes or Bairstow?

Hales unlikely to make it into the dressing room. Also eng needs a better spinner than Rashid
 

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Get in there Essex! So glad to see them finally win the T20 Blast. Ravi has been consistently excellent all season, and I genuinely wouldn't be against him getting back in the England T20 side at 6 or 7. Fantastic finisher, so experienced in T20, bowls a few handy overs, brilliant in the field, he's a class act, always has been.

Hales
Bairstow
Malan
Morgan
Billings
Bopara
Willey
Curran
Jordan
Archer
Rashid

What a team that is in the T20 stuff.

Missing the best T20 batsmen in the world, our best batsmen in the world cup, the best batting all rounder potentially in the world right now and the best performing player by some margin in the Blast for the last 2 years?! Bit to drink last night mate?!

There's a genuine chance you've only got 4/5 players right! My side right now would be...

Roy
Buttler
Vince
Root
Morgan
Stokes
Ali
Curran
Archer
Jordan
Rashid

Malan/Billings
Bairstow
Wood
Willey
 
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