Essex lose 16 wickets on day three to lose by an innings and 39 runs to already-relegated Northants.
Northamptonshire seamer Jack White rounded off the County Championship campaign with a five-wicket haul as his relegated side bowed out of Division One in style by crushing runners-up Essex.
Essex resumed on 125-4, but their already slim hopes of amassing the runs required to prolong the title race were dented further as Tom Taylor's first ball of the morning sent two of Walter's stumps flying. The carnage continued after the interval and within seven overs, the visitors had collapsed to 13-5, with Sanderson and White claiming another two wickets apiece.
Rob Keogh's first over of off-spin cost 19 runs, with Walter twice dispatching him over the stand before White eventually got his man, tempting the left-hander to pull a short ball and top-edge to Saif Zaib in the deep. "We know we're not far away when we're turning over the top few teams in the country. For us to put those performances in shows how good we could have been, it's just a shame we didn't do it sooner.
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