Simon Harmer’s newest ten-for breaks Warwickshire resistance en path to nine-wicket win
Essex 457 (Lawrence 152, Westley 114) and 85 for 1 beat Warwickshire 158 (Harmer 5-65) and 381 (Lintott 78, Bess 63, Mousley 61, Harmer 5-165) by 9 wickets
Simon Harmer claimed the 14th ten-wicket match haul of his profession as he helped Essex to a nine-wicket victory that catapulted them into second place within the Division One desk.
The South African off-spinner had performed a key half in dismissing Warwickshire for 158 within the first innings together with his thirty second five-wicket haul for the county, and he added No.33 second time round. He bowled unchanged from the River End all through the 94 overs of Warwickshire’s second innings for match figures of 10 for 230. He now has 36 wickets this season.
However, it was not all plain crusing for Harmer and his team-mates. That Essex didn’t have the win wrapped up a lot earlier was down to 2 lower-order half-century stands, each involving Yorkshire loanee Dom Bess (63).
He shared 82 runs from 75 balls with Dan Mousley (61) for the seventh wicket, and 64 runs for the ninth with Jake Lintott, whose T20-esque hitting garnered him a career-best 78.
The three of them helped take Warwickshire previous after which past the whole wanted to make Essex bat for a second time. The Bears had been ultimately all out for 381, leaving Essex requiring 83 from a minimal of 122 overs.
In the tip they wanted simply 15 of them as Sir Alastair Cook (23 not out) and Tom Westley (12 not out) noticed them over the road beneath leaden Chelmsford skies, reaching the goal with 4 byes. However, en route they misplaced the aggressive Feroze Khushi who hit two sixes and 5 fours in a 46-ball 40 earlier than chipping as much as bat-pad off the ever present Bess.
The back-to-back house wins supplied ample amends for Essex’s solely defeat within the LV= Insurance County Championship this season within the corresponding fixture at Edgbaston final month.
With 299 the goal to make Essex bat once more, Rob Yates and Will Rhodes, the not-out in a single day pair, appeared as in the event that they had been going to dig in till Christmas. They knocked off 31 within the first 55 minutes of the third day.
However, the early stress within the house camp was eased when Jamie Porter introduced one in from outdoors off-stump to Rhodes and Will Buttleman took the catch down legside. Rhodes batted for 118 balls for his 46.
Five overs later, Yates grew to become Harmer’s four-hundredth first-class wicket for Essex when the left-hander leaned ahead tentatively and fell to a different catch behind.
Warwickshire despatched in Ed Barnard to interrupt up the left-handed sequence on the prime of the order. He didn’t final lengthy, dollying a vanguard off Doug Bracewell to mid-off.
Jacob Bethell had appeared composed, driving nearly all of his seven fours by way of the covers, however he departed to a bat-pad catch off Matt Critchley for 36. Three balls on, the leg-spinner who has gained a fame this season as a ‘golden arm’, additionally accounted for Michael Burgess, caught by a diving Cook at slip.
The 21-year-old Mousley reached his fourth Championship fifty of the season throughout a Harmer over from which he plundered 18 runs.
However, as so typically, Harmer had his revenge when Mousley charged down the wicket in an try and land a fourth most and was stumped by a number of nation miles. His disgust with himself was plain to see.
Hassan Ali cracked Critchley for a six however his was a brief keep as he picked out Khushi at deep midwicket to present Harmer his fourth wicket of the innings.
Eight-down, Warwickshire had been then nonetheless 30 runs away from returning Essex to the crease, however Bess reached a well-deserved fifty simply earlier than that breakthrough level was reached within the 83rd over. He departed in an eventful over from Porter by which he hooked a six, was dealt a painful blow within the photo voltaic plexus and nicked behind.
Lintott’s maiden first-class fifty got here at a run-a-ball and had Essex struggling to defend the boundary, His free-wheeling innings of 14 fours and two sixes was ended when Khushi held on within the deep to offer Harmer with one other match-ball for his burgeoning assortment.