I’m rather torn to be honest. My county loyalty has always been with Essex and when I first watched them in the late 1960s, they were perpetual underdogs, so poor that their scoreboards was an old furniture van that had been painted matt black and used to travel about to each of their grounds - Chelmsford, Southend, Leyton, Colchester, Ilford. Then suddenly in 1979 they won a trophy - two actually - and it was a great time to watch their matches.
Then, I lost interest around the time the county championship became 2 divisions and cricket disappeared from mainstream television, rekindling my interest when I retired. I discovered in my absence that Essex has been the most successful post-war county, and continues to impress. From what I have read, they are now amongst the wealthiest of counties and it is this wealth shared by a very limited number of sides that ruins the sport as a spectacle.
So yes, because they are Essex, I want them to win, but will probably raise only two cheers rather than three when they do.