Essex County Cricket Club has managed to register a record number of sales of online tickets for the 2016 NatWest Twenty20 Blast supported by their ecommerce ticketing and CRM platform, TALENT Sport.
Essex County Cricket Club and Unibet have announced a partnership which will see Unibet become a sponsor of the club as well as its official betting partner.
John Lever tells us that his interest in the game was sparked by legends such as Ted Dexter and Ken Barrington before he became part of a successful Essex team between 1967 and 1989.
There are just a handful of LV= County Championship matches remaining this season and if they avoid defeat against Middlesex, Yorkshire will be confirmed as champions this week.
Former England fast bowler Sajid Mahmood tells us that he has already begun putting plans in place for when he stops playing with an interesting change of career ahead of him.
Fantastic bowling performances by pace bowlers Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc ensured an emphatic 169-run margin for Australia over Essex on the final day of the tour match at Chelmsford.
Michael Clarke played a timely 77-run knock to help recover a skittish batting performance from Australia in the third innings of the tour match against Essex at Chelmsford.
Australian pacer Peter Siddle expressed regret over the wayward bowling display by his team’s bowlers during the second day of the tour game against Essex at Chelmsford.
Tom Westley scored a belligerent hundred to power Essex to 299 for three in response to Australia's first innings total of 562 at stumps on day two of the tour game in Chelmsford.
Mitchell Marsh scored his second consecutive century, following a David Warner blitz earlier in the day, as Australia piled on a massive 440 runs on day one of their second tour game against Essex in Chelmsford.
Last week, I went to watch Kent play Surrey at Beckenham and it got me thinking about the plight of festival cricket at outgrounds, writes Rob Johnston.
Matt Carter gives his analysis of how Derbyshire, Durham, Essex, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Lancashire and Leicestershire fared this season.
Sunday's match between Upminster CC and Essex CCC attracted a record crowd to Upminster Park and saw Alastair Cook's Essex XI win a high-scoring contest by one run.
18 teams began the season with hopes of reaching Finals Day at Edgbaston. Now just eight remain in contention. Ahead of this week's quarter-finals, Matt Carter assesses their chances.
Essex beat the touring Sri Lankans by 22 runs (Duckworth/Lewis method) in a one-day tour game in Chelmsford that was reduced to a 21 overs per side affair due to rain.