By Sam Dalling

THE BIGGEST stage of them all for a match to honour of one of England’s greatest ever cricketers. Then throw in the number one and two counties of the last two seasons – and, of course, the carrot of creating their own little piece of history – and you have a serious showdown on your hands. Essex and Somerset lock horns at the Home of Cricket this week in a bid to be crowned the first – and perhaps maybe the only – Bob Willis Trophy champions.
It comes almost exactly a year on from their last battle, an endof- season ding-dong at Taunton where...