HIGHLIGHTS | Leicestershire vs Essex | Day 1 | Rothesay County Championship

[00:00:00]From this end, the sun shining brightly now, appeals for LBW and is given.

[00:00:06]So, Essex lose their first wicket and Paul Walter is LBW.

[00:00:11]Yes.

[00:00:14]Wait.

[00:00:15]Bold wicket and uh Yeah, Elgar has lost his I I've got a feeling it was a leg stump he got. Yes, he's from Berkhamsted, which is in neither Essex nor Leicestershire. That's a very pleasant shot.

[00:00:32]Uh to >> Just Davey will continue into Wesley, who's flicked this one off his hip. It looks like it's going to be four more and it certainly is. Just a bit too straight from Davey and Wesley got it away square of the wicket for the second boundary. But, he'll face Davey here and he's pulled this away all the way for six, is it?

[00:00:56]Think it bounced just inside the boundary, but just on his hip and he's picked that up and uh it's bounced about maybe a couple of feet in front of the boundary. Square leg out to the boundary now as Davey bowls a short ball that's pulled well in front of square from Cox and it's going to be four more runs.

[00:01:16]A fielder at short mid-wicket, I think it's Lewis Hill, very briefly thought he was in with a chance of a catch.

[00:01:26]Is this Next one's going to be four more. A perfect off drive from Jordan Cox. Almost identical to the first delivery he faced. Scriven will finish off his second over on Wesley's pads.

[00:01:40]Far too straight and a man of Wesley's quality is not going to miss out on that one. Four runs straight through square leg.

[00:01:47]>> Changes color slightly, gets easier to bat on. Oh.

[00:01:51]Well, how do you describe that shot? He shaped up to drive through the off side did Green bowls and Cock's slashes through the offside out towards the point boundary for four.

[00:02:05]That was emphatic.

[00:02:06]>> Right arm over the wicket moves in now.

[00:02:09]Bowls to Wesley whips it off his toes.

[00:02:11]The side of the ground that Wesley really favors and it will just about beat the fielder to the square leg boundary just in front of square.

[00:02:19]Scriven to the Essex captain.

[00:02:22]Wesley has a bit of a flash outside of the off stump and gets away with it.

[00:02:26]Goes through to the keeper.

[00:02:28]>> Everson completes the over there with a full ball which has been driven just past him and away for four.

[00:02:36]>> UK >> Everson strays down the leg side and that's been flicked away emphatically out towards deep midwicket for four.

[00:02:48]>> And Scriven moves in.

[00:02:50]Bowls down the leg side.

[00:02:54]Cock's didn't execute the shot the way he meant to at all. He meant to pull it to square leg and in fact got a thick bottom edge probably.

[00:03:02]As Scriven moves in and bowls.

[00:03:05]And that is worked away down to long leg this time. Just away to our left.

[00:03:11]We're perched as we invariably are. We've been coming here and I've been coming here for a few years. High up.

[00:03:18]>> Joey Everson will begin his fourth over here to Wesley who clips this off the pads and it has gone like a bullet to the square leg boundary.

[00:03:26]Right on the left edge of the square it seemed like. It's Everson bowls short to Cock's and he has absolutely nailed this one.

[00:03:38]>> Actually we short of a length.

[00:03:41]Pulled away.

[00:03:43]Playing surface.

[00:03:46]>> Green into Cock's who smashes this one through the offside. There is a the there who didn't have long to go or far to go even, but it's going to beat him and go for four.

[00:03:56]Going back to play in their franchise T20 league as Green drops short, and Cox just steps back and dismisses this one over extra cover off the back foot.

[00:04:09]As Ben Green will come in with a short cover now in place. So, Jordan Cox just steers it right where the fielder had been moved from.

[00:04:17]Through sort of third slip region, completely deliberately played.

[00:04:22]Beautiful late cut for four more runs.

[00:04:24]This is 14th boundary.

[00:04:28]As well, but he goes short on the off side, and well, that's been clattered away by Cox, and it's gone all the way for six.

[00:04:35]And he'll close off a very tidy first over to Cox, who runs down the wicket and absolutely nails this one down the ground. It has sailed out of Grace Road, and that is a brilliant way to bring up a brilliant century.

[00:04:50]Jordan Cox takes his helmet off and pretends to eat something out of it.

[00:04:58]Here he is to complete his fifth over.

[00:05:02]Into Cox, down the leg side.

[00:05:06]And no run, so a tidier over there from Green, just the one from it.

[00:05:12]To get things back underway, and uh Ahmed past the outside edge of Wesley.

[00:05:17]Mention just before the tea break, it did look like they were just going through the motions, so Ahmed back in, slightly short, and that's been pulled away, smashed back at him.

[00:05:28]Another short delivery next up, and he's been put away out towards wide long on for four.

[00:05:36]As Green is into Cox on 101. This one's full and driven through extra cover, and Cox hardly moved after hitting the shot as it there's run, raced away to the boundary.

[00:05:49]Rehan Ahmed who bowls slightly short, has been pulled away and almost once again into the hands of short mid-wicket. Manages to beat the fielder and get it away for four. Christmas beckons.

[00:06:02]Comes Rehan, offers a bit of width, that's been cut in the air just past backward point. That's going to trickle away for four.

[00:06:11]Ahmed back in.

[00:06:12]Short and uh that's been pulled in the air out towards deep mid-wicket, and it's gone all the way for six out towards the meat.

[00:06:21]A lot of responsibility will lie on the shoulders of Rehan Ahmed. That one's been chipped slightly aerially, but past Ahmed and away for four.

[00:06:31]out of the 11 and then forced his way in towards the end of the competition.

[00:06:36]As Ahmed's in, and this has been chipped up in the air over mid-off and away for four, a couple of bounces.

[00:06:43]Bowls on, but uh As Green is in, Critchley drives and manages to find a gap past the tumbling Everson at point, and it looks like it's going to reach the boundary, a teaser.

[00:06:58]But Neil Scriven's on his way for the third ball of his seventh over.

[00:07:02]And that's just played very pleasantly for four runs, driven just to the leg side of straight.

[00:07:09]He certainly would, but Critchley is going to reach his half century there.

[00:07:13]It might go all the way for four, you know it does.

[00:07:16]It's sort of a late cut, just used the pace of Ben Green's delivery to get it through backward point, and Matt Critchley goes to 53.

[00:07:28]Scriven bowls another full ball, and that's been beautifully played by Critchley. Just a leant on it.

[00:07:35]Sends the ball to wide long on for four.

[00:07:40]Slightly too often. This one's nice and full though, but Matt Critchley plows it away through Kyle Corner. It was a score at 252, and this is flatter from Ahmed, but too straight. And Cox just helps it on its way down the leg side. It's going to be a teaser into the body of Cox.

[00:08:01]Here is Green, and well, slightly short, but down the off side, and that's been carved away for four.

[00:08:07]Down to deep third, so Green, when he goes full on the off side for this one, and that's been driven away for four through a massive gap there at extra cover.

[00:08:19]Cox will face Alex Green once more, and drives this straight down the ground. It beats the diving mid-on fielder. It goes away for another boundary, and it brings up a magnificent 150 for Jordan Cox.

[00:08:34]Alex Green in once more, and this is flicked wide of the diving mid-wicket fielder for four more. Jordan Cox is making things look easy today. And he's uh he's practically holding hands with uh the non-striking batsman.

[00:08:49]As Critchley helps this one down into a gap at third man.

[00:08:56]Everson in once again, and Critchley flashes this one away for four runs.

[00:09:01]They'd moved the fielder from deep point >> opening bowler.

[00:09:04]>> Look, I agree entirely, but some people wouldn't. Round short of a length, pulled away on the on side.

[00:09:11]And it goes for four runs.

[00:09:13]>> Making it easy to just work the ball around for singles, which is exactly what Jordan Cox does.

[00:09:18]In fact, it's going to beat Ahmed and go for four as um it's Everson bowling for now, and he's bowled him.

[00:09:25]Matt Critchley looking to play this one into the leg side has his off stump flattened, and three runs short.

[00:09:34]>> Because he's bowled yeah?

[00:09:38]>> Yes.

[00:09:43]>> Two slips in wait as Joey Evison delivers the final ball of day one and it is driven straight back down the ground, so straight that it hits the middle stump at the non-strikers end.

[00:09:55]A dot ball and the day closes