ALEX Gidman was left to rue a sluggish start with the ball as a Ravi Bopara-inspired Essex eased to an eight-wicket CB40 victory over Gloucestershire.
On his return to the Eagles line-up the England star stroked an imperious unbeaten 120 as the hosts powered through to win with 19 balls to spare.
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Kane Williamson hit 73 for Gloucestershire
Earlier a superb 73 from Kiwi star Kane Williamson and gutsy half-century from Ian Cockbain helped Gloucestershire post a competitive 224 for five.
But despite claiming the early wicket of Mark Pettini, thanks to a catch from skipper Gidman off Ian Saxelby the Eagles took control.
Bopara took control, combining in a partnership of 185 for the second wicket with Terry Westley (82) to punish some errant bowling as the hosts took firm control.
"We didn't bowl as well as we can at the start of the Essex innings. If you give class players easy scoring opportunities they will take them," Gidman said.
"The pitch stayed pretty consistent all through and if you bowled at the top of off stump it was hard to score. Essex did that better than us."
Gidman was happy with the way his side wrestled back their innings after a slow start in which the Essex bowling attack got on top.
Kiwi star Williamson, who will leave for New Zealand's tour of the West Indies at the end of the month, again looked in fine form.
There were also telling lower order contributions from Ian Cockbain, who hit an unbeaten half-century, and seasonal debutant Jack Taylor who blasted 22 off 12 balls.
"I felt momentum was with us at the end of our innings. We are a developing batting unit and have guys who can strike the ball well in the closing overs," Gidman said.
"It might have been a slightly below-par score, but if we had taken a few wickets early on it would have been competitive.
Dspite defeat Gidman remains confident that Gloucestershire can challenge for the top positions in their CB 40 group this term.
The Netherlands have raced away at the top of the table, but with plenty of home games to come, not least a triple header at the county's Cheltenham Festival fortress, Gidman is taking an optimistic outlook.
"It's a blow, but only the Netherlands are on a roll in our group, with the rest of the teams beating each other, so we are still well in it," he said.
Gloucestershire return to CB40 action on Sunday when they make the short trip to New Road to face Worcestershire.
The Friends Life t20 then kicks-off on Thursday with the visit of local rivals Somerset to Bristol for a game that star t20 signing Muttiah Muralitharan is set to play.
Source: www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk
Debra Messing Files to Divorce Daniel Zelman - The Inquisitr
Actress Debra Messing has officially filed for divorce from her husband of 10 years, Daniel Zelman.
The sad news should come as no surprise to those who have been following the Will & Grace star’s life as Messing announced her separation from Zelman in December of last year, then opened up about the split to Ladies’ Home Journal magazine this May.
Debra said of the break-up at the time:
“Twenty years. It’s a very long time. I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we’re living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Till death do us part was a much different deal.”
According to the court documents filed on Tuesday, the 43-year-old actress seeks joint custody of their 8-year-old son Roman, and is asking for spousal and child support, TMZ reported.
Messing, who met Zelman in 1990 and tied the knot with the screenwriter in September of 2000, cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason behind the divorce.
Radar Online reports Messing has also hired high-profile attorney Neal Hersh, whose notable celeb clients have included Camille Grammer, Halle Berry and Melissa Etheridge.
Since the split, Debra Messing has been linked to her Smash co-star Will Chase, who is also going through a divorce.
Coincidentally, Messing and Chase’s characters on Smash have also been having an affair and their spouses leave them once they find out.
Source: www.inquisitr.com
Essex recall Tom Craddock for Northants match - East Anglian Daily Times
Tom Craddock, who is recalled to the Essex side for the match at Northamptonshire
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
9:00 AM
ESSEX have named their side in advance of the LV= County Championship match against Northamptonshire, starting today at Wantage Road, and the side includes Ryan ten Doeschate who will make his first appearance in the competition this season.
The 31-year-old has been playing in the IPL for winners Kolkata Knight Riders and head coach Paul Grayson is naturally delighted to have the all-rounder back in the line-up.
“It’s good to have Tendo back, he’s a good experienced cricketer and he’s looking forward to playing four-day cricket again,” Grayson said.
“Last year, when he came back to us, he had been playing a lot of cricket around the world and looked a bit tired but this time, he’s looking fresh.”
Alviro Petersen has returned to South Africa and Essex will go into the match without an overseas player although they do have Ravi Bopara back who missed the defeat to Derbyshire in the previous Championship match because of injury. Tom Craddock also comes into the side with the leg-spinner replacing pace man Tymal Mills.
Although Essex have only one Championship win to their name thus far in 2012, Grayson believes that his side can still have a say in the push for promotion.
“We are still in with a chance in Championship cricket, there are nine games to go and if you get back-to-back wins in four-day cricket, you can soon shoot up the table,” he said.
“We had a very encouraging win against Gloucestershire Gladiators on Monday in the Clydesdale Bank 40 which is just what we needed. I thought that we bowled really well for 35 overs and although they got a few runs at the end of their innings when we didn’t quite get our yorkers right and we need to look at our death bowling, our performance overall with the ball was pleasing.
“Then Ravi batted beautifully and I thought that Tom Westley’s innings was superb and he’ll take a huge amount of confidence from that as well. They made the run-chase comfortable and helped us to a comfortable first win in that competition.”
The match between Essex and Northamptonshire earlier in the season at Chelmsford fell victim to the weather when the only play possible came on day two of the four days and then only 27 overs were sent down. In that time, Essex had reached 54 for six wickets with Mark Pettini was the only batsman to reach double figures.
Of the other 167 County Championship contests between the two counties, Essex have won 53 matches and lost 42 whilst one game finished as a tie.
Essex: J Foster (wkt, capt), M Pettini, T Westley, O Shah, R Bopara, B Foakes, R ten Doeschate, G Napier, D Masters, C Willoughby, T Craddock.
Source: www.eadt.co.uk
K-Solo Marriage Breaks**Moves Out Of Matrimonial Home - Modern Ghana
Popular producer, Solomon Oyeniyi a.k.a. K solo who has quite done some music production for the likes of Timaya, Clever-J and others allegedly said to have moved out of his matrimonial home, abandons his legal wife, Kikelomo for his mum's home.
According to the information, K Solo marriage to the top business woman, Kike has been going through trouble waters for sometime now. The delectable woman, we learnt, hasn't too comfortable with K Solo's recklessness and insatiable appetite for anything in skirt.
"As a good wife who wants the success of her hubby, she has the right to query her hubby whenever he comes back home late, smelling of alcohol. This, in most times, doesn't go down well on him and he keeps on complaining of Kike nagging all the time." An insider told nigeriafilms.com
Kike, as a supplier had some transaction with Nigeria Breweries Limited, she was expected to be paid her money that month and K-Solo came up with some unbearable demands and Kike, we gathered, turned down his proposal claiming that the money she was expecting from her supply was going back into the business. This, we learnt, frustrated K-Solo and he allegedly said to have beaten a hell out of her.
"The following day, he packed his things and moved to his mum house where he permanent keeps his former girlfriend" another source told us.
Source: www.modernghana.com
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