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Match summary

Vitality County Championship

Division 1 / Canterbury

Kent 394 & 101 for 9. Essex 591 for 7.

Essex win by an innings and 96 runs.

Essex 1st innings

Total

591 for 7 declared, from 142.4 overs.

Batting

  1. Browne b Evison; 65 runs, 159 balls, 4 fours, 0 sixes, and a strike rate of 40.88
  2. Elgar st Finch b Parkinson; 77 runs, 140 balls, 10 fours, 0 sixes, and a strike rate of 55.00
  3. Westley (c) c Crawley b Arafat Bhuiyan; 21 runs, 77 balls, 2 fours, 0 sixes, and a strike rate of 27.27
  4. Cox b O'Riordan; 207 runs, 255 balls, 21 fours, 5 sixes, and a strike rate of 81.18
  5. Critchley lbw b Evison; 13 runs, 39 balls, 2 fours, 0 sixes, and a strike rate of 33.33
  6. Pepper (wk) c sub [None] b Arafat Bhuiyan; 82 runs, 101 balls, 8 fours, 1 sixes, and a strike rate of 81.19
  7. Harmer c Denly b Parkinson; 6 runs, 7 balls, 0 fours, 1 sixes, and a strike rate of 85.71
  8. Snater not out; 83 runs, 84 balls, 1 fours, 6 sixes, and a strike rate of 98.81

Extras

37 from 15 byes, 5 legbyes, 12 noballs, 5 wides.

Yet to bat

  • Beard
  • Cook
  • Porter

Fall of Wickets

  • Dean Elgar at 146 for 1, from 45.5 overs
  • Nick Browne at 170 for 2, from 56.1 overs
  • Tom Westley at 194 for 3, from 67.3 overs
  • Matt Critchley at 225 for 4, from 80.2 overs
  • Michael Pepper at 391 for 5, from 115.2 overs
  • Simon Harmer at 398 for 6, from 116.5 overs
  • Jordan Cox at 591 for 7, from 142.4 overs

Bowling

  1. Agar: 7overs, 1 maidens, 21 runs, 0 wickets, and an economy of 3.00.
  2. Stewart: 26overs, 2 maidens, 91 runs, 0 wickets, and an economy of 3.50.
  3. Arafat Bhuiyan: 26overs, 5 maidens, 114 runs, 2 wickets, and an economy of 4.38.
  4. Evison: 29overs, 5 maidens, 93 runs, 2 wickets, and an economy of 3.20.
  5. O'Riordan: 11.4overs, 3 maidens, 36 runs, 1 wickets, and an economy of 3.08.
  6. Parkinson: 32overs, 0 maidens, 151 runs, 2 wickets, and an economy of 4.71.
  7. Denly: 11overs, 0 maidens, 65 runs, 0 wickets, and an economy of 5.90.

Match details

  • Toss: Essex won the toss and elected to bat
  • Venue: The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence, Canterbury
  • Umpire: Tom Lungley
  • Umpire: Mark Newell
  • Match referee: Jason Swift