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HARD TO COMPARE WINNERS PAST AND PRESENT

by
The Cricket Paper Team
29 September 2019

Derek Pringle says changes in format have meant that Essex’s Championship-winning sides of 1984 and 2019 approached the game in very different ways

Leading the way: Graham Gooch led Essex to the County Championship title in 1984, scoring over 2,200 runs in the process
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Typical Essex. They rarely do things the easy way. Not content with jarring the nerves of their supporters by winning last Sunday’s Vitality Blast off the last ball, they waited until the fag end of the final session of the season to clinch the County Championship, the second time they h...