Outstanding performance. Incredible effort to roll a side on their own patch who only 2 days ago made 360 odd.

Good to see Hamza get a few.

Benjamin keeping, Burgess not fully fit.

Interested to learn that Leicestershire will apparently be charging a fee to watch their live streamed home games from August 11th...

Yes Leicestershire team looks very decent. No Yates is a big blow, particularly good run getter in this format. Could put Wylie up to open? He's done it in age group cricket.

Anyone else just searching for toss and team news? No, just me then...

Kai Smith was not in the squad v Essex, he played for the u18's as part of his recovery from a broken hand.

Different kind of test for us tomorrow, Leicestershire haven't lost many players to the other comp and have two decent overseas players in there line up so can put out some strong XI's. Chris Wright is back.

Just read the preview, really hope Yates and Burgess pass their fitness tests.

I kind of get it with Barnard, his overall career T20 record is average at best and I think his bowling would be very hittable in that format as he doesn't really have a yorker or any change up deliveries. He did only make 1 score in the the Blast games he did play too.

Benjamin getting the gloves ahead of Burgess is crazy though. Burgess a better batter across formats and clearly a considerably better keeper. Probably a better outfielder too for what it's worth, they have to hide Benjamin at fine leg or third.

Tremendous win. I never gave us a chance at half time. Good to see the senior players doing the heavy lifting. Good time to have played Essex as you feel they could chin a few sides when they reintroduce Harmer and Snater.

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Andy wrote:

Unbelievably poor dismissal from Hamza.

It was there to hit, just got it completely wrong.

Yeah exactly

Unbelievably poor dismissal from Hamza.

Westley has released that ball from pretty wide on the crease too, would have almost certainly been sliding down. Still don't think the shot was on.

Anyway, remarkable how Barnard seems to have carried on from last year's ODC.

Quite why he was trying to sweep a ball that full I'll never know...anyway poor decision, I'm not sure Westley could believe it either.

He just cannot bowl 6 serviceable deliveries consecutively. Always be a 4 ball, you see in 4day cricket captains can't really set fields for him.

He does bowl the odd jaffa where he gets one to lift or nip off the surface.

I feel a though that last over has put it beyond us. Miles, when you factor in that he also bowled 6 or 7 wides has had a bit of a mare. Imagine the effigy burning last season if Henry Brookes had bowled like that?!

Craig Miles bowling half trackers at the death to a lad who is demonstrably very good on the pull.

Essex have managed a really good total without doing anything too outrageous, just good sensible batting and proactive running.

I don't fancy us here I must say, but it's a great opportunity for someone to make a bit of a name for themselves.

I've mentioned it before but we have a couple of below par fielders in Benjamin and Booth.

Essex teams looks decent with some extremely promising youngsters in it with some older heads like Westley and Nick Browne. All 11 have come through the Essex pathway and academy I believe.

You'd like to think it could work that way but the T20 side looks fairly settled. Yates can maybe force his way in.

I've never known Amir Khan play 1st team cricket?

Sounds like we'll have Simmons, Kai Smith and Rushworth available at some point but yes we could do without more Hundred call ups.