... and triumph!
Sep. 26th, 2009 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
undyingkingWe did it! -- with more than 5 overs to spare. From 207-5 when I last posted, to 359-5 to win. The excellent unbroken 6th-wicket partnership of 156 from 105 balls between Mark Pettini and Ryan ten Doeschate saw Essex home in what turned out to be comfort. Ten Doeschate in particular struck the ball brilliantly, scoring 108* off just 59 balls, including 9 4s and 8 6s. (You might remember him batting the Netherlands to victory over England in the World Twenty20 earlier this summer.)
So, back into the first division, after an absence of 6 years. It's going to be an interesting challenge, and to be honest we could easily come straight back down (as happened last time we got promoted). We will need to find a really good overseas player to replace Danish Kaneria, who has been great for us -- but we have a lot of good youngsters coming through as well, so at this stage I will be cautiously optmistic!
So, back into the first division, after an absence of 6 years. It's going to be an interesting challenge, and to be honest we could easily come straight back down (as happened last time we got promoted). We will need to find a really good overseas player to replace Danish Kaneria, who has been great for us -- but we have a lot of good youngsters coming through as well, so at this stage I will be cautiously optmistic!
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Date: 2009-09-28 08:57 am (UTC)We had also had to declare behind in the previous championship match, to give ourselves a chance of winning -- against Northants, who were then occupying the last promotion spot ahead of us. That was a bit of a tighter chase -- we needed 36 off the last 4 overs, and ended up winning with just one ball to spare.