Essex Preview: Form, the IPL, rivalries and Billings on Crawley
28.05.26, 15:28 Updated 28.05.26, 15:33
Fred Atkins
Ever heard of Essex? It’s a county that tends to slip under the radar, neglected by the media and rivalled only by Yorkshire when it comes to the self-effacing modesty of its inhabitants.
But it also has a cricket team, and that cricket team rides into Canterbury on Friday night on the back of two defeats in their two opening South Group games.
Neither was especially close, although on the opening Friday in Chelmsford they made 191-5 only for Sussex to chase hat down with six wickets and four full overs remaining. And on Tuesday they fell 30 runs short of Hampshire’s 200-4 at whatever The Rose Bowl is being called these days.
It doesn’t help that Jordan Cox is sitting on the bench for IPL finalists Royal Challengers Bengaluru, but the truth is they struggled with him in the side last year, when Kent beat them home and away. The Spitfires won by 47 runs at Chelmsford and seven wickets in Canterbury.
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