Essex Eagles v Lancashire Lightning Match Preview, GAME SOLD OUT!

Jul 26 2010

Essex Eagles v Lancashire Lightning Match Preview + GAME SOLD OUT!

GAME SOLD OUT! All remaining tickets for this Friends Provident t20 Quarter Final have now been sold. The game will be broadcast LIVE on Sky Sports & BBC Essex.

Match Preview – Quarter Final:

Friends Provident t20 action returns to the Ford County Ground on Tuesday evening (7.40pm – gates open from 5:30pm) when Essex Eagles meet Lancashire Lightning with a place in the finals day awaiting the winners. The Eagles reached this quarter-final stage by finishing second in the South Group and one more victory will give them a Finals Day appearance for the third time in the eight-year history of the competition.

Essex First XI Head Coach Paul Grayson looks forward to the tie. “We are playing some good cricket in all formats, confidence is high in the dressing room and from my point of view, that is very pleasing”.

“We’ve got the boost of having Ravi Bopara available to us, he’s a class player and in the form of his life at the moment and its great news for us that he’s with us although frustrating for him because he deserves to be with the England Test squad”.

“We’ll have a good side out even though we’ve still got a lot of absentees with Ryan (ten Doeschate) and Napes (Graham Napier) out injured and Cookie (Alastair Cook) and Danish (Kaneria) on Test duty and we go into the match without an overseas player because Scott Styris has had to return home ahead of a New Zealand tour”.

“But the guys that come in always do a good job for jus. Both Lancashire and ourselves are very good one-day sides and we know that we are going to have to bowl well on Tuesday, particularly in the power play overs because we know that Lancashire will come at us hard in those first 6 overs”.

“It’s about continuing to playing the way we do, we’ve done the basics so well in the last few weeks and that’s why we’re winning matches. The outcome could depend on whichever side holds their nerve the best and when you hold your nerve, you tend to produce your skills better”.

“If we can do that, then I have every belief that we will win the match and go through to Finals day”.

Essex Squad:

James Foster (Captain and wicket-keeper)

Ravi Bopara,

Mark Pettini,

Matt Walker,

Grant Flower,

Tom Westley,

Jaik Mickleburgh,

Tim Phillips,

David Masters,

Maurice Chambers,

Chris Wright,

Andy Carter,

Adam Wheater.

ENDS

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