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Essex drop Colchester Festival for 2017
- Updated: November 26, 2016
Essex have confirmed that they will not be holding a Colchester Festival in 2017. The club have put the decision down to the vagaries of the fixture list, rather than finances, and say they will consider a return to Castle Park in subsequent seasons.
Rumours had swirled earlier this year that the fixture against Sussex in August would be the last Colchester Festival – fittingly marked, if so, by a century from the retiring allrounder Graham Napier.
With the announcement of the 2017 fixture list, Essex are set to play all of their home fixtures at their Chelmsford headquarters. Essex’s chairman, John Faragher, put the decision down to the fact Essex only …
