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.
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Fred Atkins Fred Atkins is a former Kent Messenger sports editor and has written several books, including The Spitfire Diaries, an account of Kent's 2021 season and Monty Panesar's "The Full Monty". He has followed KCCC since 1993 and has covered them for the ECB and Wisden since 2021.