Essex conclude in on unbeaten narrative

Essex 227 (Harmer 64, Brooks 3-56, Patterson 3-66) and 334 for 7 dec (Lawrence 83, Browne 83, ten Doeschate 57) beat Yorkshire 111 (Wagner 3-21) and 74 (Cook 5-20) by 376 runs

Sam Cook, a complete unknown most attention-grabbing a payment weeks ago, personified a season of excellence as he took 5 for 20 to skittle Yorkshire for 74 and spherical off a tumultuous season for Essex one day of which they have got remained unbeaten within the Specsavers County Championship for the major time in their ancient past.

The champions’ 10th victory of the 14-recreation campaign used to be followed by resounding applause and sprays of champagne put up-match as they got the Championship trophy for the major time in 25 years. It used to be the 2nd they’d waited for for the rationale that title used to be claimed a fortnight ago when they composed had two video games to play.

For Yorkshire, who had been within the identical celebratory mood factual two summers ago, their full used to be their lowest since 1999 as they succumbed by a huge 376-mosey defeat in precisely 29 overs. There had been composed 25 overs remaining within the day when Matt Fisher used to be left on his motivate by Neil Wagner to full the season. It used to be as smartly they claimed the functions required to steer obvious of relegation on the major day otherwise their ragged effort will had been terminal.

Cook, who made his firstclass debut for his dwelling county lower than two months ago, had taken a occupation-most effective 5 for 18 within the 2nd innings at Southampton within the final recreation. The 2nd five-fer of his embryonic occupation came before he returns subsequent week to Loughborough College for the final one year of his ancient past stage course.

Cook put the skids beneath a Yorkshire top-repeat chasing an now potentially now not 451 to rep with four wickets in 32 balls in a six-over, pre-tea burst.

Adam Lyth regarded bowled over to be given out caught within the motivate of to Cook’s 2nd ball, and Kraigg Brathwaite played down the tainted line to be lbw to Porter within the next over. Alex Lees’s center stump used to be sent cartwheeling by Cook and Yorkshire had been already on an inexorable lope at 17 for 3 within the sixth over.

Cook claimed his third wicket for 11 runs when the Ashes-certain Gary Ballance fell lbw for factual five. Jack Leaning used to be caught in his crease enjoying ahead and edging to James Foster to give Cook wicket No4.

Simon Harmer joined the event when Andrew Hodd turned his newest lbw sufferer. Thirty-five for six.

Essex announced on the tea interval that Porter had signed a two-one year contract extension taking him through to the discontinue of the 2020 season. He had a double birthday celebration first ball after the fracture when he had Steven Patterson caught within the motivate of to voice his 200th firstclass wicket for the county.

That preceded Cook’s fifth wicket along with his first ball upon his return for a 2nd spell. Jack Brooks frolicked his bat and played tamely into Varun Chopra’s fingers originally breeze. Thirty-seven for six at tea had become 38 for eight.

Karl Carver helped Matt Fisher placed on 34 for the penultimate wicket in 9 overs to give some respectability to the receive before he departed lbw for 9. Fisher, who had taken three Essex 2nd-innings wickets for 69, used to be the right kind batsman to construct it into double figures. He used to be the final man to head for 25, caught within the motivate of for Foster’s eighth rep of the match, after Wagner had him flailing with a bouncer.

It supposed Division One’s leading wicket-takers had shared 147 Championship wickets with Porter leading the model with 75 from Harmer.

On the start of the day, Essex’s in a single day 2nd-wicket century stand ended within the fourth over when Dan Lawrence went lbw to give Coad his 50th and final Championship wicket of the season. Lawrence’s 83 came from 156 balls, and with Prick Browne he placed on 139 in 49 overs to eradicate Essex from 6 for 2 on the 2nd afternoon.

Browne followed on the identical deepest receive when Lyth made amends for a tricky dropped rep likelihood when the opener used to be 59. This time, Lyth held on to a snick at 2nd breeze to full Browne’s 166-ball innings that including 11 boundaries. James Foster then turned the 10th lbw sufferer of the match to give Fisher the major of three wickets.

That introduced together ten Doeschate and Harmer, who placed on 75 in 21 overs for the sixth wicket. Ten Doeschate’s innings used to be stout of nudges and nurdles, eight of them going to the boundary, and a ninth clearing the ropes at long leg.

He used to be at final out straight after lunch, in Fisher’s 2nd over with the recent-ball when ten Doeschate tried to withdraw his bat and used to be caught within the motivate of. The partnership with Harmer used to be price 75 in 21 overs with the captain departing for a 92-ball 57 with eight fours and a six.

Harmer claimed his 2nd half-century of the match, following his 64 within the major innings, when he clubbed Fisher during the covers from the 79th ball he confronted. The seventh-wicket pair added 42 in eight overs with Neil Wagner, whose brilliant and breezy 23 came from 26.before he edged to 2nd breeze to give Fisher his third wicket at a non-public label of 69.

Ten Doeschate called his batsmen in 50 minutes after lunch following the 2nd ball of the 96th over, when Porter hit the 2nd of two fours in a five-ball 10. Essex had reached 334 for 7 with out the requirement for the injured Tom Westley to bat.