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unusual facts about Essex County Cricket Club



Brian Bainbridge

He was a right arm off break bowler, who took 20 wickets at an average of 17.90, with a match winning best of 6 for 53, in Yorkshire's 52 run win over Essex at St George's Road Cricket Ground, Harrogate, in 1961.

David Acfield

He was part of the successful Essex team of the late 1970s and early 1980s and formed a famous county spin partnership with Ray East.

Essex County Cricket Club in 2005

Essex Eagles lost their last nine wickets for 54 runs, and the target of 110 was not enough to win their first match of the 2005 Twenty20 Cup to Sussex Sharks.

Fahad Alhashmi

In March 2008, he played for the UAE in matches against English county sides Essex, Lancashire and Yorkshire.

James Horsley

Against Essex he bowled and in return was bowled by Johnny Douglas and in the Leicestershire match had a match haul of 10 wickets.

John Santall

Santall was never a conspicuous success with the county: in 13 innings he only thrice reached double figures (his best being the unbeaten 36 he hit against Lancashire), and with the ball he never added to the 2–29 he took in the first innings of his debut against Essex; the first of his two victims was Stan Nichols and the other Joe Hipkin.

Joseph Bowden

He maintained form over the next three years and made his top score of 120 against Essex in the 1929 season when he partnered Harry Storer who made 209 to put on 322 for the first wicket.

Maurice Chambers

Maurice Anthony Chambers (born 14 September 1987 in Port Antonio, Jamaica) is a cricketer representing Essex.

Mel Hussain

Mel's younger brother Nasser Hussain captained England and Essex, while his father Jawad Hussain played once for Tamil Nadu in 1964-65 and another brother, Abbas Hussain, reached Second XI level with Essex.

Oscar Da Costa

He scored over 1,000 runs on the tour at an average of 26.82, including his maiden century, 105 against Essex at Leyton.

Percy Holmes

Their partnership culminated, in 1932 against Essex at Leyton, in a then-world-record stand of 555, beating the previous Yorkshire (and world) record by Brown and Tunnicliffe in 1898 by just one run.


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