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Anderson Hat-Trick In Another Tough Day
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By Dave Buxton
May 15 2003
Essex had another tough first day for the third away Championship match in succession, as Lancs trail by just 88 with nine 1st innings wickets in hand still. England starlet James Anderson took a hat-trick as Essex were bowled out for 215, James Foster scoring 57 and Lancs were 127-1 at stumps.
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May 15 2003
Essex had another tough first day for the third away Championship match in succession, as Lancs trail by just 88 with nine 1st innings wickets in hand still. England starlet James Anderson took a hat-trick as Essex were bowled out for 215, James Foster scoring 57 and Lancs were 127-1 at stumps.
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The talking point of the day was definately Anderson's hat-trick. The England senstation ripped through Essex after a fair start of 34 for the first wicket between Robinson (who passed a late fitness test to play) with 11 and Will Jefferson with 19.
After the decent opening, Anderson then had Robinson caught in the gully by Alec Swann and the very next ball got his England captain lbw for a first-ball 0, with a brilliant inswining yorker and then the first ball of his next over, Jefferson edged a ball just short of a length to keeper/captain Warren Hegg and the hat-trick was complete.
34-0 to 35-3 and Essex needed some stability, which they got through Andy Flower and Paul Grayson, adding 32 together.
But Peter Martin (3-32) was not to be undone and took 3 further wickets to put Essex in real trouble, as he got Grayson (13) and then Ronnie Irani first ball to leave us 67-5.
Flower (25) was Martin's third victim and when James Middlebrook (12) fell just before lunch, 95-7 read the scoreboard and it looked a question of when Essex would be all out.
Not so, as Foster, Napier and Brant lead a fightback to at least give some respectability to a bleak looking card.
Graham Napier scored 40 from as many balls of the 57 he added with Fossy for the 8th wicket, which included 6 fours and a six, before Anderson (4-67) took his fourth wicket with Martin taking the catch at mid-off, Essex now 152-8.
Scott Brant and Foster then added a valuable 42 for the 9th wicket, before Foster holed out to Carl Hooper (2-34) on the long-on boundary for an excellent 57 from 89 balls with 7 boundaries.
Brant and Grant then put on 21 runs for the last wicket which gave Essex a batting bonus point, before Hooper had the Aussie caught by Chilton to end the innings, although not before he had scored his highest first-class score of 23 from 39 balls, which saw 3 fours and 1 maximum. However, 215 all out from 57.5 overs after winning the toss was a poor effort, Anderson hat-trick or no Anderson hat-trick.
Essex made a fair start as the recovery continued, by getting the wicket of Swann for 33, lbw to Ronnie with the score on 44, but since, the Lancs new boys of Sutcliffe (50*) and Loye (33*) albeit slow, made the task of batting look easy, by adding an unbroken 2nd wicket stand of 83 to see Lancs to 127-1 from 47 overs at the close of the opening day's play. The deficit is just 88 and with nine wickets still in the tank and the likes of Law and Hooper to come, we need to take wickets and fast.
So, another poor start that has put us on the backfoot again after just the first day. The rain should save us, but we can't reply on that. Well batted to Fossy, but all credit to James Anderson, who is a class-act and for me, someone who will take England forward.
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James Foster - On a day where the England candidates stated their claim ahead of the first Test of the summer, our own Fossy didn't do his chances any harm at all with a fine 57 to give Essex some respectability.
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Date: 14/5/03