ESSEX will have revenge on their mind when they face Warwickshire in the quarter-finals of the Royal London One-Day Cup on Thursday next week.
The Bears knocked the Eagles out of the NatWest T20 Blast at the same stage earlier this month. Once again the teams will meet at the Essex Cricket Ground.
Essex won their final match of the group stages tonight as they beat Northamptonshire by four wickets at Wantage Road.
The Steelbacks were bowled out for 311 leaving Essex a challenging total. Richard Levy and Rob Keogh got the home side off to a good start as they reached 100 before the latter was out for 50.
Kyle Coetzer (0) and Adam Rossington fell cheaply before Levy (84) put on 114 runs with David Willey.
He reached his century before eventually falling for 113, with the score 298-6.
The next four wickets fell for 13 runs with Tom Westley taking three wickets in the final over.
Westley finished with 4-60 from his ten over with Reece Topley taking 2-52 from eight overs, David Masters finished with 2-54 also from eight.
In reply Essex also made a good start with Westley making 62 before falling with the score on 94.
Opening partner and captain for the night Mark Pettini then pushed the score on with Ravi Bopara as the pair put on 106 for the second wicket. Pettini out for 84.
Jaik Mickleburgh, recalled to the side, made seven, before Bopara and Kishen Velani made 50 for the fourth wicket, the latter out on 27.
Bopara followed six balls later having made 61 with the score on 270-5 with five overs remaining.
James Foster made a brisk 16 but it was Greg Smith (22no) and Tim Phillips (11no) who got Essex over the line, with Phillips scoring a four to win the game with three balls the spare.
Next Thursday's game starts at 2pm.
