Tag: Chelmsford

Essex lead way but Duckett catches eye

5 October 2016 1 comment

The Cricket Paper’s experts offer their team of the season from Division Two Essex earned the only promotion spot available […]

Derek Pringle column – Work to be done for Essex to shake off yo-yo tag

4 October 2016 0 comments

The biggest challenge of promotion it seems, for those teams which manage it like my old county Essex, is adapting […]

Martin Johnson column – I’m missing fast show but Agnew and Lloyd won’t be…

23 August 2016 0 comments

There is no finer sight in cricket than a genuinely fast bowler in full cry, mixing up the 100mph inswinging […]

England basking in Knight’s new dawn

19 July 2016 0 comments

Adam Collins speaks to the England captain about a brilliant summer and a challenging future Six starts, six wins. Automatic […]

Derek Pringle column – There is pace… And there is raw pace like Tymal Mills

20 June 2016 0 comments

There is pace that hurries batsmen and then there is real pace that threatens their well-being, and Tymal Mills possesses […]

Martin Johnson column – ‘Sorry, you will have to write it in office. I can’t cope’

29 May 2016 0 comments

It’s not difficult to conjure up the scene in the Sri Lankan dressing room just before the start of the […]

Martin Johnson column – 1,000 runs in May? No just 1,000 Goose pimples!

4 May 2016 0 comments

This has not been the most convenient time for the junior doctors to be kicking up a fuss, just when […]

Warwickshire job no big deal Gooch tells Essex faithful

26 April 2016 0 comments

Peter Hayter finds England’s former batting coach eager to allay fears at Chelmsford over his consultancy work at Edgbaston Graham […]

Derek Pringle column – When the panic sets in there is nowhere to hide…

28 February 2016 0 comments

By Derek Pringle It only takes ten balls to dismiss a cricket team yet we still profess shock and bewilderment […]

Where are they now? Essex – NatWest Trophy finalists 1996

29 December 2015 1 comment

By Neil Fissler Paul Grayson admits that Essex thought that they had one hand on the NatWest trophy after restricting […]

England women to play Pakistan in 2016

1 December 2015 0 comments

ENGLAND women are set to play three ODIs and three twenty20s against Pakistan next summer, with Sky Sports showing all […]

Where are they now? Yorkshire – Sunday league winners 1983

6 October 2015 0 comments

By Neil Fissler Raymond Illingworth had a long history in the game of winning trophies, but nobody had expected that […]

Dream Team – Graham Napier

26 May 2015 0 comments

ANDY FLOWER – Retired When he came to us from Zimbabwe he was world No.1 batsman and it was fantastic to […]

WIN tickets to Essex v Ravi Bopara’s All Stars!

30 April 2015 0 comments

What do Chris Gayle, Shahid Afridi, Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakarra and England star Ravi Bopara all have in common? The […]

Alan Lee’s County Verdict: Chelmsford

21 May 2014 0 comments

IT took a long time to build the county ground at Chelmsford and it looks like taking even longer to rebuild it.

Lurking Presence Of Kevin Pietersen Will Be Test For Alastair Cook

23 April 2014 0 comments

THE happiest image of a good week for county cricket was that of Alastair Cook celebrating his century against Derbyshire at Chelmsford with a rock-the-baby salute to his new daughter, giving a whole new meaning to Graham Gooch’s favourite term: “Daddy hundred”.