Dont fancy us

Great chance now, what a session.

I'd like to think the current partnership has engineered us into a position where we shouldn't lose. Early to say though. The middle session was great cricket, Essex bowled so well as a unit and Lamb in particular showed great composure against them. Briggs lower order batting has been a revelation.

Great resistance this

Essex have been good. Some of the dismissals look bad, but as a unit Essex have been pretty much spot on.

To be fair Thomason is making a good fist of the openers job down at Sussex.

Agreed, it's absolutely outrageous that we can't go in. Why aren't counties badgering the government more?

Anyway, Bears day.

Come on you bears

Yates to open and Mousley to go 6 for me.

Any scorecard for this?

Massive, massive win in terms of the development of this young side.

I don't want to sound like I'm getting my excuses in early but the Sibley situation has really done us here.

Anyway, Hain and Lamb played well there.

Rhodes got a shocker at the end there.

Sibley situation is such a blow, it's really messed us up. Think Yates is so much more comfortable, psychologically if anything, batting at 3 as opposed to opening.

It's the lower order too, everywhere I look I see teams putting on 150+ with numbers 8, 9, 10 and 11. Not us though!

Highveld wrote:

The innings from Sam was a positive, he looked very comfortable batting, until he was out.

Lamb did seem to be reaching for a ball that should probably have been left, but it wasn't the worst dismissal of the innings.

Indeed not the worst dismissal but probably the most the frustrating. You can't do all the hard work of seeing of Broad and Paterson, and look very competent in doing so, and then get out to a Lyndon James loosener. Criminal.

Anyway, good game to win from here...

That was a bad dismissal, Lamb.

I'm normally the most optimistic of Bears fans...but this is rubbish.

I was never keen on him when he was with us. Good player though.

I've been screaming for us to play 6 batsmen.