Paul Walter leads Essex cost to victory at Cardiff
Essex 226 for 9 (Walter 78, Smith 3-33) beat Glamorgan 175 (Ingram 48, Walter 2-19) by 51 runs
A career-best 78 from Paul Walter arrange a 51-run victory as Essex set a powerful 226 for 9 of their Vitality Blast match towards Glamorgan in Cardiff. The whole was the second-highest ever made at Sophia Gardens with solely the Surrey whole made right here on Wednesday above the Essex effort on this match.
Essex misplaced wickets frequently however stored on coming on the Glamorgan bowlers. The innings had only one stand of greater than 50 runs however there have been essential contributions all through.
Glamorgan began properly of their chase however fell away as they seemed to maintain up with the speed. Colin Ingram prime scored with 48 however no Glamorgan batter made a half-century as they had been bowled out for 175 with Peter Hatzoglou unable to bat.
This is Glamorgan’s second dwelling defeat in a row to depart them with a file of 4 wins and three losses. Essex now go forward of Glamorgan within the desk with 5 wins and two defeats.
Essex bought off to a flying begin having received the toss and elected to bat. After the primary 5 overs that they had reached 67 for 1 with Timm van der Gugten’s return from harm greeted by the Essex batters smashing him across the park. Van der Gugten’s first two overs went for 38 runs as Robin Das, Feroze Khushi and Michael Pepper all took the assault to Glamorgan.
It seemed as if Essex might have a very exceptional rating on the finish of their six over Powerplay, however the final over of the fielding restrictions from Ruaidhri Smith was a double-wicket maiden. Smith had Khushi dismissed when he drilled a ball exhausting and low to Colin Ingram at mid-on and claimed a second wicket from the final ball of the Powerplay when he had Josh Rymel caught at level.
Walter was the following man in and he, together with Pepper, continued to assault, with the speed hardly ever dropping under 10 an over all through the Essex innings. Pepper made 42 from simply 19 balls when he was trapped lbw by Hatzoglou.
It was Walter who was the star as he made the very best rating for Essex, 78 from 34 balls that contained six sixes. He was dismissed when he drove a ball from Hatzoglou to long-off and Ingram took a easy catch.
Despite the common wickets, Essex nonetheless stored coming exhausting and their decrease order, led by Daniel Sams, took them properly previous 200 to offer Glamorgan a goal that may be a file chase on this floor.
Glamorgan started their pursuit of the 227-run victory goal with a really spectacular efficiency contained in the Powerplay. Kiran Carlson and Sam Northeast took the rating to 65 with out loss inside the primary six overs and shared a stand of 76 earlier than Carlson was properly caught off the bowling of Matt Critchley for 40 from 18 balls.
Northeast adopted up his 76 towards Surrey on Wednesday with a well-made 46 on this match earlier than he additionally fell to Critchley, bowled whereas utilizing his ft to get down the observe.
That wicket introduced collectively Glamorgan’s in-form pairing of Ingram and Chris Cooke. The subject was the identical as within the sport towards Surrey, they wanted one thing record-breaking to get their workforce over the road. With 118 wanted from simply 53 balls when their partnership started Glamorgan wanted certainly one of these two to be batting on the finish of the match. As it was they each made respectable begins however did not kick on.
Ingram was caught on the boundary by Critchley off the bowling of Snater for 46 and Cooke was caught and bowled by Walter. When Billy Root was dismissed the following ball, additionally caught and bowled by Walter, Glamorgan had been 5 down and wanted to attain at 16 runs an over.
Wickets tumbled on the finish to depart Glamorgan a good distance wanting their victory goal as they went from 158 for 3 to 175 all out. And with Hatzoglou not popping out to bat it appears if their in depth harm listing has bought longer.