Essex comings and goings

It's been quite a season for Essex as the Mail Online documents, and Paul Grayson has done a good job of steering them through. But I can't say I'm in favour of shipping in Dwayne Bravo for Twenty20 finals day. If they have that attitude then surely young players will be reluctant to go there, and if I was Kevin Pietersen - looking to come into the side only when it suited me and the ECB - I'd be approaching Essex.

Somewhere between Hampshire's attitude and Essex's lies the answer, but it's got to be far closer to Hampshire's end of the scale surely?