County cricket talking points: Essex deny Somerset in splendid final

The circumstances were different to last year, but the result was the same, with ice-cool Essex defying valiant SomersetBy Gary Naylor for the 99.94 Cricket BlogOne of the less mentioned delights of county cricket is the margin for error. In Test cricket, any weakness would be probed relentlessly by the likes of Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne – today, analysts get involved with their match-ups and databases. Better cricketers emerge, but (possibly) not better cricket. Related: Getting the p