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\t\tEssex Men v Gloucestershire Men
\nMetro Bank One Day Cup
\nAmbassador Cruise Line Ground | Chelmsford
\nSunday 24 August 2025 | 11am start<\/p>\n
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Team News<\/p>\n
Essex Men: Robin Das, Matt Critchley, Tom Westley (C), Charlie Allison, Luc Benkenstein, Curtis Campher, Simon Harmer, Simon Fernandes (WK), Shane Snater, Charlie Bennett, Jamie Porter.<\/p>\n
Gloucestershire Men: Cameron Bancroft, James Bracey (WK), Ollie Price, Ben Charlesworth Jack Taylor (C), Miles Hammond, Graeme Van Buuren, Tommy Boorman, Zaman Akhter, Daz Ahmed, Matt Taylor.<\/p>\n
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\nMatch Details<\/p>\n
Umpires:\u00a0 Paul Baldwin & Mohammed Waseem
Match Referee:\u00a0 James Whittaker
Scorers:\u00a0 Paul Parkinson & Adrian Bull
Toss: Essex won the toss and elected to bat
Result: Essex Men won by 130 runs<\/p>\n
\nMatch Reaction: Tom Westley<\/p>\n
Match Highlights<\/p>\n
Match Report<\/p>\n
Tom Westley extended his purple patch with a well-crafted 92 as Essex inflicted Gloucestershire\u2019s first defeat of the Metro Bank One Day Cup campaign, strengthening their own bid for a knockout place.<\/p>\n
The Essex captain has now amassed 443 runs in seven innings in this season\u2019s competition, including a century and three fifties. Combined with three red-ball hundreds in June and July, he has scored 905 runs in just two months. His latest innings spanned 103 balls and featured eight boundaries.<\/p>\n
Gloucestershire had already secured a knockout berth \u2013 and still await confirmation of whether they progress straight to the semi-finals as Group A winners \u2013 but after six successive wins this was a subdued display. Chasing 290, they were bowled out for 159 with 89 balls unused, Matt Critchley accelerating Essex\u2019s 130-run victory with 3\/27.<\/p>\n
Essex had looked set for a bigger total while Westley was at the crease. At 182-2 they were well placed, but collapsed to 289 all out, losing eight wickets in 15 overs as Gloucestershire\u2019s spinners exploited turn on a worn Chelmsford pitch. Captain Jack Taylor led the way with career-best List A figures of 5\/61.<\/p>\n
James Bracey, like Westley prolific in the competition with 431 runs from his first six innings, offered Gloucestershire\u2019s main resistance. His dismissal for 37, heaving Simon Harmer across the line at 77\/4, opened the floodgates.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Bracey had been untroubled by the early loss of partner Cameron Bancroft, caught behind off Jamie Porter, and struck Shane Snater for a fine six over square leg. But he inadvertently ran out Ollie Price when a straight drive deflected onto the stumps at the non-striker\u2019s end. From there, Gloucestershire unravelled.<\/p>\n
Ben Charlesworth briefly counter-attacked with a straight six off Westley before holing out next ball. Jack Taylor soon followed, edging Luc Benkenstein to short third man, and at 88-5 the contest was all but over. Graeme van Buuren prodded at Westley to be caught behind, Miles Hammond\u2019s careful 30 ended when Critchley bowled him through the gate, and the leg-spinner struck twice more in quick succession to remove Tommy Boorman and Zaman Akhtar.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Matt Taylor had made the initial breakthrough for Gloucestershire, drawing Robin Das into an edge behind to Bracey from a green-tinged surface used throughout Essex\u2019s home campaign. But Westley then dominated, adding 103 with Critchley and 75 with Charlie Allison to put Essex in command.<\/p>\n
Critchley\u2019s fluent 64 from 66 balls ended lbw to Ollie Price, and Allison\u2019s enterprising 40 was cut short by Jack Taylor, triggering a collapse. Luc Benkenstein and Curtis Campher soon followed, before Westley\u2019s 135-minute vigil was ended by one from van Buuren that kept low.<\/p>\n
Some late hitting from Harmer, including two huge sixes in a rapid 50 from 36 balls, pushed Essex up towards 300, but he and Charlie Bennett both holed out as Jack Taylor wrapped up the innings.<\/p>\n
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