Deal or no deal?

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. It is a sparkling morning in Chelmsford. Essex, needing to win this game to stand any chance of promotion, offered Warwickshire a deal last night but it received short shrift. Why would the Bears give Essex even a glimmer of a chance?

So unless a better deal has been offered this morning, Essex will have to depend on their own brilliance, unaided by compliance, to win this match.