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20-04-2025
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Pears shine with ball against Essex at Chelmsford
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Ambassador Cruise Line Ground, Chelmsford (day one) Essex 179: Cox 32; Duffy 4-39, Waite 3-47 Worcestershire 98-4: Hose 39*, D'Oliveira 31*; Snater 2-31 Worcesteshire (3 pts) trail Essex (1 pt) by 81 runs Match scorecard Jacob Duffy and Matthew Waite took advantage of a seam-friendly pitch to skittle Essex for 179 at Chelmsford. New Zealand's Duffy led the way with a fine display of fast, accurate bowling that was rewarded with figures of 4-39 while Waite took out three middle-order wickets as Essex were dismissed inside 59 overs. Only Simon Harmer's innings lasted more than 47 balls and 68 minutes. The South African spinner's obdurate 77-ball 28 spanned nearly two hours – as no one got to grips with a hybrid pitch that had plenty of grass on it and provided extra lift, carry and lateral movement. The toss was crucial and Brett D'Oliveira won it for Worcestershire. Not that the visitors fared much better when it was their turn to bat. Although Essex were without England pace prospect Sam Cook, on instruction from the ECB, who had asked for him to be rested pending a potential call-up, they still managed to reduce Worcestershire to 22-4. Jake Libby pushed a delivery from Snater into Matt Critchley's right hand at third slip and Gareth Roderick fell to the same combination. Then Essex's debutant overseas bowler Kasun Rajitha had his first wicket when Rob Jones was caught behind and Jamie Porter had Kashif Ali taken at fourth slip to make But Adam Hose and visiting skipper Brett D'Oliveira, who had been a big doubt for the game with a thumb injury, then stepped up, piecing together the biggest partnership of the match so far. They added an unbeaten 76 added for the fifth wicket as the Pears revived to 98-4 when bad light ended play with nine overs remaining. Worcestershire are looking for a second successive Championship win at Chelmsford, last season's victory in September, their third straight four-day win of 2024, and a massive stride towards securing their place in the top flight following promotion in 2023. ECB Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay Notifications, social media and more with BBC Sport
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19-04-2025
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Walter century puts Essex on top against Pears
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Ambassador Cruise Line Ground, Chelmsford (day two)Essex 179 & 229-6: Walter 104, Thain 49*Worcestershire 202: Hose 48, D'Oliveira 48; Rajitha 4-52Essex (3 pts) lead Worcesteshire (3 pts) by 210 runsMatch scorecard Paul Walter scored his third career first-class century to steady a listing Essex ship and help towards setting up a run chase for Worcestershire at 30-year-old left-hander has been auditioning in the first three County Championship matches for the vacant opening spot alongside Dean Elgar when the South African returns for paternity leave at the end of the month. Walter has already accumulated 317 runs in five innings this season at an average of 104 from 154 balls guided Essex from 128-5, and a lead of just 105 at that point, to a more comfortable 211-6 when he was eventually out following a stand of 83 with Noah the close, Essex were 233-6 with a lead of 210 and Thain had reach a career-best 49 not first-innings total of 202 was built largely on a 102-run fifth wicket partnership between the not-out overnight pair of Adam Hose and Brett D'Oliveira, who both departed for identical scores of 48 from 78 balls. Both also fell victim to Essex's Sri Lankan debutant Kasun Rajitha, whose pace helped him finish with needed just six overs to wipe out the 23-run deficit as Walter and Charlie Allison built a patient first-wicket stand of 53. Allison had already creamed his brother Ben – late of Essex, now of Worcestershire – past cover point for four. But he was first out when he slashed at Matthew Waite and was caught doubled his wicket tally when he had Tom Westley playing an indeterminate shot and being pinned combined with Jordan Cox in a big-hitting stand of 48 in seven overs that included three fours in one Tom Taylor over for Cox. However, in attempting to hammer Taylor out of the ground Cox chipped up tamely to mid-on and departed for 24 from 21 was particularly strong off the backfoot where he gained the majority of his 13 boundaries. There was, in addition, a powerful hook off Jacob Duffy that brooked no lost further partners in quick succession when Matt Critchley went for a wild swing at Eathan Brookes, who walked across to short mid-wicket to take the skier. And the injured Michael Pepper, again with the aid of Allison as his runner, lasted just seven balls before his off-stump was sent cartwheeling by a rampant he found a willing partner in Thain and the pair settled into a lively rhythm. Walter's 13th boundary, a pull off Brookes, took him to his century from 149 balls. Walter was eventually out after four hours and 15 minutes when Taylor beat his forward lunge and upended his Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay.
