Essex 332 (Westley 109, Roelofsen 77) beat Kent 149 (Compton 52, Snater 5-29) by 182 runs
Ben Compton anchored the Kent reply, however with out injecting any urgency or tempo into his innings of 52 from 82 balls as wickets fell throughout him. Snater lastly eliminated Compton to take 5 wickets in 14 balls and return List A-finest figures of 5 for 29.
Westley and Roelofsen joined forces after Essex – who elected to bat on a phew-what-a-scorcher kind of afternoon on a flat pitch – misplaced two wickets in six balls. Feroze Khushi was first to go when he acquired a forefront to provide Matt Quinn a return catch. Fellow opener Josh Rymell adopted lbw to 1 that rapped his higher thigh.
Westley accelerated by his eighties, the handbrake off, with three fours in an over from Nathan Gilchrist that in the end price 19 runs. A attribute flick off his legs for his thirteenth 4 took Westley to a 96-ball century.
Roelofsen’s anchorman position got here to an finish after 79 balls with a momentary lapse of focus when Navdeep Saini despatched his center-stump cartwheeling. Westley adopted virtually instantly when he scooped Joe Denly to Evison on the fence at lengthy-on.
That wicket-taking mixture was reversed with Denly taking a spectacular diving catch at mid-on off Evison to account for Aaron Beard. Four balls later Aron Nijjar, like Westley, picked out Evison on the rope at hand Hamid Qadri a wicket.
With Essex slipping from 217 for two to 250 for six in 5 overs, it wanted some agricultural hitting from Snater to push Essex in the direction of a defendable complete. Saini misplaced his composure utterly with two balls above waist top to Robin Das that pressured him out of the assault within the midst of an over. The second free-hit was smashed for six over sq. leg.
More drama was to come back as Quinn contributed a large of his personal to the ten-ball over, which concluded with Das discovering Finch on the midwicket boundary to finish a 49-run partnership inside 4 overs with Snater.
In response, Kent have been by no means actually within the chase. They misplaced Tawanda Muyeye within the sixth over attempting to play Jamie Porter to leg however falling to Das at level. Ollie Robinson attacked from the beginning, hitting two sixes in his 31 earlier than he flicked Porter to deep additional cowl the place Snater took a one-handed, rolling catch. Snater’s drop of Denly was not expensive as three runs later Khushi took a shocking catch above his head at quick cowl.
Kent’s fourth wicket went when Alex Blake flicked Jamal Richards into Beard’s fingers on the sq.-leg boundary. Harry Finch managed only a dozen from 28 balls earlier than he chipped Snater to mid-on. Evison adopted going for a suicidal second run to Snater within the deep and Roelofsen, behind the stumps, accomplished the run-out.
All the time Compton was slowly accumulating, however at no nice tempo. His fifty took 76 balls – Westley’s had taken 44, Roelofsen 52 – and included simply two fours. But as quickly as he had raised his bat, he began to expire of companions as Snater claimed three wickets in an over earlier than finishing the rout by eradicating Compton.
