Good to see the Essex boys give those Surrey Brown Pants a good whipping on their own turf. Essex managed a new club record high limited overs total of 391/5 who replied with a lame 235 all out with only Ramprakash giving us any fightback (why could he never do that for England though?). Captain Pettini after 3 successives ducks amassed 144 from 120 balls and Jason Gallian 117 from 116 were the main run scorers. Masters tooks 5-17 in Surreys effort.

In a bizarre twist SKY TV was NOT actually showing the Surrey game for a change!