This match of County Championship Division One, played at Chelmsford, Essex’s home ground, ended in just 2 days. The score of 200 runs could not be crossed even once in the four innings of this match. In the first innings, Essex was bundled out for 134 runs, while Warwickshire also reached only 191 runs. But in the third innings, Essex looked to make a big score but Manav Suthar did not allow this to happen.

16 September was the second day of the match, in the first session of which Warwickshire’s first innings ended. After this, Essex started batting in the second innings and the openers ended Warwickshire’s lead by making a partnership of 62 runs. It was Suthar who broke this partnership and brought the first success. Then the second wicket fell at the score of 93 runs and this partnership was also broken by Suthar. At this time Essex seemed to be moving towards a big score but Suthar stopped the momentum by taking these 2 wickets.

After this, Essex’s wickets gradually started falling, in which Suthar took 2 wickets in the middle order and 1 wicket in the lower order also. In this way, the Indian spinner took 5 wickets for 75 runs in his 24 overs. This is the second time in this County Championship season that Suthar took 5 wickets in an innings. Essex collapsed for just 189 runs and Warwickshire got the target of 134 runs. Warwickshire achieved this target only by losing 2 wickets.

This victory took Warwickshire to second place in the points table and now it has reached second place in the title race. Somerset is ahead of it and Nottinghamshire is one place behind. Suthar has made a big contribution in this. The Indian spinner has taken 26 wickets in 10 innings in his very first county season and is playing an important role for Warwickshire.