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Match Details
ESS vs SUS 55th Match, T20 Blast 2023
ESS
149-514.5
Essex won by 5 wickets 🏆
SUS
19.3147-10
D Sams
29
(16)
D Sams
29(16)
4s: 4
6s: 1
SR:181.25
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M Critchley
25
(22)
M Critchley
25(22)
4s: 1
6s: 1
SR:113.64
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S Khan
1-28
(2.5)
S Khan
1-28(2.5)
Econ: 9.88
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Player of the Match
Michael-Kyle Pepper
Essex48(26)
ESS - 2nd Innings| Session | Open | PASS | 6 Over | 52 | 77 | 10 Over | 107 | 104 |
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SUS - 1st Innings| Session | Open | PASS | 6 Over | 52 | 41 | 10 Over | 67 | 74 | 15 Over | 112 | 122 | 20 Over | 161 | 147 |
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2:12 AM IST | Well that's all she wrote for today folks! Essex with a comprehensive victory over Sussex! This is Anirudh jumping off the bandwagon, with my co-commentator Deepak and our scorer/analyst Bishal Mandal!
Stay tuned to our coverage of this season's T20 Blast! See you on the next one!
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Michael-Kyle Pepper (Player of the match): "Just give me practice and everything is feeling quite nice so, nice to go there and help the team. Yeah, the ball was coming very nicely on the bat. We were targeting ourselves and the other partnerships were very crucial. Yeah, we were very confident as we had a lot of batters still to come out. Yeah, definitely we will try to take the confidence to the next game."
2:02 AM IST | A fantastic end to a dominant victory for the Eagles! Critchley and Sams stay until the end to make sure their team chases down the total successfully and in under 15 overs! They defeat a hapless Sussex side by 5 wickets!
Sussex won the toss and elected to bat first, and boy did that decision backfire immediately! Cook picked up the early wicket of Clark and there was no turning back from there. Sussex lost 2 more wickets by the powerplay ended. Their inability to stitch together a valuable partnership cost them the game big time.
Ravi Bopara was the only light in the dark as the veteran notched up a well paced 50 off 31 balls to ensure his team set a defendable total on the day with 147 all out in their innings. Cook was the pick of the bowlers, his disciplined bowling rewarded him with the eventual figures of 4-0-20-4!
Come the chase, Sussex had a glimmer of hope as they too dismissed Lawrence off the second delivery of the first over. However, thereafter it was a completely different story. Rossington and Peppers went on a carnage and by the time they were done with the Sussex bowlers, they had smashed their way to a 76 run-stand from just 5 overs!
Essex were in cruise control after that, because even after losing a few wickets in flurry, their lower middle order of Sams and Critchley ensured their team got over the line with over 5 overs to spare! Michael Pepper top scored for his team with 48 runs off 26 deliveries. While, the experienced Tymal Mills offered little trouble to Essex as he picked up 2/34 from his quota of 4 overs.
Sussex go further into trouble as this loss meant they have now lost 6 out of the 7 games they have played this season. They have a lot of thinking to do if they are to turn this season around. While Essex get even more stuck in at the mid-table with a resounding victory today! An interesting journey awaits ahead for both teams.
Sussex won the toss and elected to bat first, and boy did that decision backfire immediately! Cook picked up the early wicket of Clark and there was no turning back from there. Sussex lost 2 more wickets by the powerplay ended. Their inability to stitch together a valuable partnership cost them the game big time.
Ravi Bopara was the only light in the dark as the veteran notched up a well paced 50 off 31 balls to ensure his team set a defendable total on the day with 147 all out in their innings. Cook was the pick of the bowlers, his disciplined bowling rewarded him with the eventual figures of 4-0-20-4!
Come the chase, Sussex had a glimmer of hope as they too dismissed Lawrence off the second delivery of the first over. However, thereafter it was a completely different story. Rossington and Peppers went on a carnage and by the time they were done with the Sussex bowlers, they had smashed their way to a 76 run-stand from just 5 overs!
Essex were in cruise control after that, because even after losing a few wickets in flurry, their lower middle order of Sams and Critchley ensured their team got over the line with over 5 overs to spare! Michael Pepper top scored for his team with 48 runs off 26 deliveries. While, the experienced Tymal Mills offered little trouble to Essex as he picked up 2/34 from his quota of 4 overs.
Sussex go further into trouble as this loss meant they have now lost 6 out of the 7 games they have played this season. They have a lot of thinking to do if they are to turn this season around. While Essex get even more stuck in at the mid-table with a resounding victory today! An interesting journey awaits ahead for both teams.
14.5 S Khan to M Critchley
4 FOUR!! That's it, Critchley will do it for the Eagles! Drags the length back on the stumps. Critchley rocks back and pulls it to the deep mid-wicket region. The ball flies over the short mid-wicket and races away for a boundary. Essex Eagles wins the game by 5 wickets with 31 balls to spare.
14.4 S Khan to D Sams
1 Length delivery on the stumps. Sams punches it to long-on for a single.
14.3 S Khan to M Critchley
1 Length delivery on the off. Critchley gets the inside edge of the bat that rolls down to backward square leg for a single.
14.2 S Khan to M Critchley
6 SIX!! Fuller delivery on the stumps. Critchley gets his bat down and lofts it over the long-on for a maximum. He connects it with the sweet of the bat.
14.1 S Khan to M Critchley
0 Fuller delivery on the stumps. Critchley drives it back to the bowler.
OVER 14
Essex
137/5
Daniel Sams
28(15)
Matthew Critchley
14(18)
Tymal Mills
2-34(4.0)
13.6 T Mills to D Sams
4 FOUR!! Good use of the pace!! Back of length delivery on the off-stump line. Critchley late cuts it past the keeper for a boundary.
13.5 T Mills to M Critchley
1 Short of length delivery on the stumps. Critchley is a bit early with the pull and wears it on the body for a single. The umpire didn't signal anything.
13.4 T Mills to M Critchley
0 Length delivery outside the off. Critchley flashes at it but gets beaten.
13.3 T Mills to D Sams
1 Back of length delivery outside the off. Sams cuts it to short covers and rotates the strike.
13.3 T Mills to D Sams
WD WIDE!! Fuller and slower delivery outside the tramline. Wide signaled.
13.2 T Mills to D Sams
0 Back of length delivery outside the off. Sams looks to late cut it but gets beaten.
13.1 T Mills to M Critchley
1 Length delivery outside the off. Critchley chops it to point region for a single.
OVER 13
Essex
129/5
Daniel Sams
23(12)
Matthew Critchley
12(15)
Ravi Bopara
1-33(4.0)
12.6 R Bopara to D Sams
0 Dot to end the over. Length delivery outside the off. Sams rocks back and looks to heave it over the covers but fails to get anything on it.
12.5 R Bopara to M Critchley
1 Full toss delivery outside the off. Critchley throws his bat but mistimes it to covers for a single.
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