County Championship: Opening day of Essex against Derbyshire rained off
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The forecast is better for Chelmsford on Friday
LV= County Championship Group One, Cloudfm County Ground, Chelmsford (day one): |
Essex: Yet to bat |
Derbyshire: Yet to bat |
No play possible on day one |
The opening day of Essex's Group One County Championship fixture against Derbyshire was called off without a ball being bowled because of rain.
Derbyshire won the toss and elected to field, but rain arrived before the scheduled start time of 11:00 BST.
Play was eventually abandoned just after 15:30 at Chelmsford.
Defending county champions Essex have only won one of their opening five games this season, while Derbyshire are winless in four.