The circumstances were different to last year, but the result was the same, with ice-cool Essex defying valiant Somerset
By Gary Naylor for the 99.94
Cricket Blog
One of the less mentioned delights of county cricket is the margin for error. In Test cricket, any weakness would be probed relentlessly by the likes of Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne – today, analysts get involved with their match-ups and databases. Better cricketers emerge, but (possibly) not better cricket.