Sussex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major
countyThe historic counties of England are ancient subdivisions of England established for administration by the Normans and in most cases based on earlier Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and shires. They were used for various functions for several hundred years and continue to form, albeit with considerably...
clubs which make up the
EnglishEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
domestic
cricketCricket is a bat-and-ball team sport that is first documented as being played in southern England in the 16th century. By the end of the 18th century, cricket had developed to the point where it had become the national sport of England. The expansion of the British Empire led to cricket being...
structure, representing the historic county of
SussexSussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...
. Its limited overs team is called the
Sussex Sharks. Their kit colours are dark blue and the shirt sponsor is RDF. Founded in 1839, this club is England's oldest county cricket club.
The club plays most of its home games at the
County Cricket Ground, HoveThe County Cricket Ground, is a cricket venue in Hove, England. It is home to Sussex County Cricket Club. It is one of the only county grounds to have deckchairs for spectators - which are in the colours of Sussex CCC - blue and white....
. The club also plays some games around the county at
ArundelArundel is a market town and civil parish in the South Downs of West Sussex in the south of England. It lies south southwest of London, west of Brighton, and east of the county town of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Worthing east southeast, Littlehampton to the south and Bognor Regis to...
,
EastbourneEastbourne is a large town and borough of East Sussex, on the south coast of England, with an estimated population of 106,652 as of 2009. The area has seen human activity since the stone age and it remained one of small settlements until the 19th century when its four hamlets gradually merged to...
and
HorshamHorsham Cricket Club is one of the oldest cricket clubs in the world and represent the Sussex market town of Horsham.Although cricket was played in Horsham before 1768, the first recorded game of a town side was on 8 August 1771, which is when Horsham Cricket Club was created...
.
Sussex won its first-ever official
County ChampionshipThe County Championship is the domestic first class cricket competition in England and Wales. All but one of the teams are named after, and were originally representatives of, historic English counties, the exception being Glamorgan, which is a Welsh county.-History:The official County Championship...
title in 2003 after a wait of more than 100 years, and subsequently became the dominant team of the decade, repeating the success in 2006 and 2007. In 2006 Sussex achieved "the double", beating Lancashire CCC to clinch the
C&G TrophyThe Friends Provident Trophy is a one-day cricket competition in the United Kingdom. The 2009 final was won by Hampshire. It is one of the four tournaments in which the eighteen first-class counties compete each season. They are joined by teams from Scotland and Ireland...
, before winning the
County ChampionshipThe County Championship is the domestic first class cricket competition in England and Wales. All but one of the teams are named after, and were originally representatives of, historic English counties, the exception being Glamorgan, which is a Welsh county.-History:The official County Championship...
following an emphatic victory against Nottinghamshire CCC, in which Sussex outplayed their hosts by an innings and 245 runs. Sussex then won the title for the third time in five years in 2007, when in a nail-biting finale on the last day of the season
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/sussex/content/story/312026.html, Sussex defeated Worcestershire CCC, with rivals Lancashire CCC narrowly failing to beat Surrey CCC with the match going on to past 5 o'clock, - prompting relieved celebrations at the
County Cricket Ground, HoveThe County Cricket Ground, is a cricket venue in Hove, England. It is home to Sussex County Cricket Club. It is one of the only county grounds to have deckchairs for spectators - which are in the colours of Sussex CCC - blue and white....
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/sussex/content/story/312129.html
Honours
- Champion County' (3) – 1845, 1848, 1855; shared (1) – 1852
- County Championship (3) – 2003, 2006, 2007
- Division Two (1) – 2001
- Friends Provident Trophy' (5) – 1963, 1964, 1978, 1986, 2006
- Pro40 National League' (3) – 1982, 2008, 2009
- Division Two (2) – 1999, 2005
- Twenty20 Cup (1) – 2009
- Benson and Hedges Cup (0) –
Second XI honours
- Second XI Championship (3) – 1978, 1990, 2007; shared (0) –
- Second XI Trophy (1) – 2005
- Minor Counties Championship (0) – ; shared (0) –
Earliest cricket
Sussex, along with
KentKent , originally Cantia, is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the River Thames estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent...
, is believed to be the birthplace of cricket. It is widely held that cricket was invented by children living on the
WealdThe Weald is the name given to a physiographic area in South East England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs...
in Saxon or Norman times.
See :
History of cricket to 1696The history of cricket to 1725 traces the sport's development from its perceived origins to the stage where it had become a major sport in England and had been introduced to other countries....
The first definite mention of cricket in Sussex relates to ecclesiastical court records in 1611 which state that two parishioners of Sidlesham in West Sussex failed to attend church on Easter Sunday because they were playing cricket. They were fined
12dThe shilling is a unit of currency used in current and former English Commonwealth countries and still used in countries which have become republics, such as Kenya. The word shilling comes from schilling, an accounting term that dates back to Anglo-Saxon times where it was deemed to be the value of...
each and made to do penance.
Cricket became established in Sussex during the 17th century and the earliest village matches took place before the
English Civil WarThe English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists. The first and second civil wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third war saw fighting between supporters of...
. It is believed that the earliest county teams were formed in the aftermath of the
RestorationThe English Restoration, often shortened to the Restoration, began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Commonwealth of England that followed the English Civil War...
in 1660. In 1697, the earliest "great match" recorded was for 50 guineas apiece between two elevens at a venue in Sussex: this was probably an inter-county match and it has been classified as the earliest known
first-class fixtureFirst-class cricket refers to the class of cricket matches of three or more days scheduled duration, between two sides of eleven players and officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
.
Matches involving the two great Sussex patrons
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of RichmondCharles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond and 2nd Duke of Lennox, KG, KCB, PC, FRS was the son of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and a grandson of King Charles II....
and Sir William Gage, 7th Baronet were first recorded in 1725. The earliest known use of Sussex in a match title occurred in 1729. From
1741The 1741 English cricket season was notable for the first appearance in recorded matches of the famous Slindon Cricket Club.Much of our knowledge is based on letters written by the Duke and Duchess of Richmond to each other and to the Duke of Newcastle...
, Richmond patronised the famous
Slindon Cricket ClubSlindon Cricket Club was famous in the middle part of the 18th century when it claimed to have the best team in England. It was located at Slindon, a village in the Arun district of Sussex....
, whose team was representative of the county.
After the death of Richmond in 1751, Sussex cricket declined until the emergence of the Brighton club at its
Prince of Wales GroundThe Prince of Wales Ground, also known as "Prince's Ground", in Brighton, Sussex was a venue for major cricket matches in the closing years of the 18th century .-Location:...
in 1790. This club sustained cricket in Sussex through the Napoleonic Wars and, as a result, the county team was very strong in the 1820s when it included the great bowlers
Jem BroadbridgeJames "Jem" Broadbridge was an English professional cricketer who is widely accounted the outstanding all-rounder in England during the 1820s. He is best remembered for his part in the introduction of roundarm bowling...
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William LillywhiteFrederick William Lillywhite was a famous English cricketer during the game's roundarm era...
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For information about Sussex county teams before the formation of Sussex CCC, see : Sussex county cricket teams
Origin of club
Although Sussex had been a major cricket centre since the 17th century, there had apparently been no move towards a permanent county organisation until 17 June 1836 when a meeting in
BrightonBrighton is a town in the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex on the south coast of Great Britain...
set up a
Sussex Cricket Fund to support county matches. It was from this organisation that Sussex County Cricket Club was formally constituted on 1 March 1839.
Sussex CCC played its initial first-class match versus
MCCMarylebone Cricket Club was founded in 1787 as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground near St John's Wood in north London. MCC was formerly the governing body of cricket in England and across the world...
at
Lord'sLord's Cricket Ground is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and Wales Cricket Board , the European Cricket Council and, until August 2005, the...
on 10 & 11 June 1839. Sussex CCC is therefore England's oldest county cricket club.
Sussex Crest
The Sussex crest depicts the mythological bird the
MartletrightA martlet is a heraldic charge depicting a stylized bird with short tufts of feathers in the place of legs. Swifts, formerly also called martlets, have such small legs that they were believed to have none at all.-Appearance in Civic Heraldry:...
, famous for having no feet. Capped players have six martlets on their sweaters whilst non-capped players have just the club crest on the left breast. When it comes to caps the capped players have a crest with gold trimming whilst non-capped have white trimming.
Sussex Grounds
The Club has used four cricket grounds in Brighton & Hove - matches were played on a ground donated by the then Prince Of Wales and the ground was fittingly called The Prince of Wales Ground (where Park Crescent now lies), Temple Fields (where Montpelier Crescent now lies), Royal Brunswick Ground (where Third and Fourth Avenues are situated) and finally in 1871 the ground in Eaton Road was acquired from the Trustees of the Stanford Estate. Turf from the Royal Brunswick Grounds was transferred and re-laid on the square.
The first County match was played at Eaton Road on 6 June 1872 against Gloucestershire. As well as the County Ground, Hove, the Club's First and Second XI regularly play around the County, the grounds at
ArundelArundel Castle in Arundel, West Sussex, England is a restored medieval castle. The castle dates from the reign of Edward the Confessor and was completed by Roger de Montgomery, who became the first to hold the earldom of Arundel by the graces of William the Conqueror...
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HorshamHorsham Cricket Club is one of the oldest cricket clubs in the world and represent the Sussex market town of Horsham.Although cricket was played in Horsham before 1768, the first recorded game of a town side was on 8 August 1771, which is when Horsham Cricket Club was created...
, Eastbourne playing host to First XI fixtures.
Squad
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Sussex Sharks
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Murray Goodwin Murray William Goodwin is a cricketer who played 19 Tests and 71 One Day Internationals for Zimbabwe. He is a right-handed top order batsman strong on the back-foot and a good cutter and puller of the ball....
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Michael Thornely Michael Thornely is an English Cricketer who plays for Sussex County Cricket Club. He is a right handed batsman and occasional right arm medium pace bowler...
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Carl Hopkinson Carl Hopkinson is an English cricketer and coach. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. He is also a talented fielder.Born in Sussex, he attended Brighton College...
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Chris Nash Christopher David Nash is an English cricketer who plays for Sussex County Cricket Club.He also played first-class cricket for Loughborough UCCE in 2003 and 2004 having made his first-class debut for Sussex in 2002, against Warwickshire at Edgbaston.A specialist batsman, Nash currently opens the...
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Ed Joyce Edmund Christopher Joyce is an Irish cricketer who has played for both the Irish and English national cricket teams. He was a member of the England squad in the 2006-07 Ashes series and 2007 World Cup....
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Joe Gatting Joseph Stephen "Joe" Gatting is a former footballer turned cricketer who plays for Sussex. Gatting previously played football for Brighton & Hove Albion as a striker before being released on 31 October 2008....
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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/ All-roundersAn all-rounder is a cricket player who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling. Although all bowlers must bat and quite a few batsmen do bowl occasionally, most players are skilled in only one of the two disciplines and are considered specialists...
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Piyush ChawlaPiyush Pramod Chawla is an Indian cricketer who has played for the India U-19 team and the Central Zone...
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Left-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Robin Martin-Jenkins Robin Simon Christopher Martin-Jenkins is an English cricketer who has played for the cricket teams of Sussex CCC and British Universities. He is six feet 5 inches tall. He is the son of Christopher Martin-Jenkins, the cricket writer and commentator...
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Andrew Hodd Andrew Hodd is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who currently plays for Sussex. He was born in Chichester....
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Michael Yardy Michael Howard Yardy is an English cricketer from Pembury in Kent. He captains Sussex County Cricket Club and is a left handed batsman whose unusual technique has attracted a great deal of attention due to a pronounced shuffle from leg to off immediately prior to the bowler releasing the ball...
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Left-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Ben Brown Ben Christopher Brown is an English cricketer who currently plays for Sussex and is a member of the England under-19s. He is a wicket-keeper and right-handed batsman.Brown was educated at Ardingly College...
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Rory Hamilton-Brown Rory Hamilton-Brown , is a cricketer, who plays as a right-handed batsman and is an off spin bowler. He was educated at Dulwich College and Millfield School...
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Yasir Arafat Yasir Arafat Satti is a Pakistani cricketer. He bats right-handed and bowls right-arm fast medium.- International career :...
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Dwayne Smith Dwayne Romel Smith is a West Indies all-rounder who plays Tests and One Day Internationals. He is a hard hitting right-handed batsman and bowls right arm medium pace....
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Chad Keegan Chad Blake Keegan is a South African cricketer.Born in Johannesburg, Keegan played first-class, ListA and Twenty20 cricket as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler for Middlesex between 2001 and 2007. He created an impression as a penetrative new ball bowler and a hard hitting...
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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James Kirtley Robert James Kirtley is a former English Test cricketer, who was born on the 10 July 1975 in Eastbourne in the county of Sussex. He is a right arm fast to medium bowler and a right hand batsman. After prep school at St.Andrews School, Eastbourne, he was educated at Clifton College.-First ODI:His...
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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William Beer William Andrew Thomas Beer is an English cricketer. Primarily a leg break bowler, he currently plays for Sussex County Cricket Club and Horsham....
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Jason Lewry Jason Lewry is an English cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-fast bowler.Born in Worthing, he has played for Sussex since the beginning of his career in 1993, thus making him one of their longest-serving players. He has played Twenty20 cricket since 2003...
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Left-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Christopher Liddle Christopher Liddle is an English cricket player. He signed with Sussex in October 2006. -External links:*...
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Ollie Rayner Oliver Philip Rayner is a German-born English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off break bowler who currently plays for Sussex....
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Ragheb Aga |
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Corey Collymore Corey Dalanelo Collymore is a Barbadian cricketer whose speciality is seam bowling. He has represented the West Indies team in both Tests and ODIs cricket. In a side that so often chopped and changed he became one of their most experienced bowlers...
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Right-hand bat In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...
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Sussex Women
Sussex Women have produced many
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capped players. These include:
- Clare Connor
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(Captain of 2005 Ashes Winning Side)
- Caroline Atkins
Caroline Mary Ghislaine Atkins is a English cricketer who has played 6 Tests and 24 ODIs since 2001. She was a member of the side which retained the Ashes on tour in Australia in 2008....
- Rosalie Birch
Rosalie Anne Birch is an English cricketer and a member of the current England team. An off spinner and lower middle order batsman, she was part of the England team that won the Ashes in 2005 and retained them in 2008.From 2003 Birch combined her cricketing career with full-time study at the...
- Holly Colvin
Holly Louise Colvin is an English cricketer and member of the current England women's cricket team.She currently holds the record of being the youngest Test cricketer of either sex to play for England.-School level:...
- Laura Marsh
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- Sarah Taylor
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Sussex Women won the County Championship in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2008.
Records
Most first-class runs for Sussex
Qualification - 20000 runs
http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/England/Firstclass/Sussex/Batting_Records/Most_Career_Runs.html
| Player | Runs |
|---|
| John Langridge John George Langridge was a cricketer who played for Sussex. His obituary in Wisden called him "one of the best English cricketers of the 20th century never to play a Test match"....
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34150 |
| Kenneth Suttle |
29375 |
| Jim Parks junior James Michael Parks was a successful English cricketer.Jim Parks was born in Haywards Heath, Sussex. He came from a cricketing family. His father Jim Parks senior was a prolific all-rounder for Sussex and played once for England in 1937...
|
29138 |
| James Langridge James Langridge, born at Newick, Sussex, on July 10, 1906 and died at Brighton on September 10, 1966, was a cricketer who played for Sussex and England....
|
28894 |
| Ted Bowley Edward Henry "Ted" Bowley, born at Leatherhead, Surrey on June 6, 1890 and died at Winchester on July 9, 1974, was a cricketer who played for Sussex and England....
|
25439 |
| Joseph Vine |
24120 |
| George Cox junior George Cox was an English cricketer who played for Sussex. He was generally known as George Cox junior in order to distinguish him from his father George Cox senior, who was also a successful player for the same county.Cox was primarily an attacking right-handed batsman and also an occasional...
|
22687 |
| Henry Parks |
21692 |
| Charles Fry |
20626 |
| Thomas Cook |
20176 |
| Alan Oakman Alan Stanley Myles Oakman was an English first class cricketer. He had a long career for Sussex, playing 538 first-class matches over a 21 year period, but he only played two Test matches for England...
|
20117 |
Most first-class wickets for Sussex
Qualification - 1000 wickets
http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/England/Firstclass/Sussex/Bowling_Records/Most_Career_Wickets.html
| Player | Wickets |
|---|
| Maurice Tate Maurice William Tate was a Sussex and England cricketer of the 1920s and 1930s and the leader of England's Test bowling attack for a long time during this period...
|
2211 |
| George Cox senior George Rubens Cox was an English cricketer who played for Sussex. In the later part of his life he became generally known as George Cox senior in order to distinguish him from his son George Cox junior, who was also a successful player for the same county.Cox's first-class career lasted from 1895...
|
1810 |
| Albert Relf Albert Edward Relf, born at Burwash, East Sussex on 26 June 1874, and died at Wellington College, Berkshire on 26 March 1937, was a cricketer who played for Sussex and England....
|
1594 |
| Ian Thomson Norman Ian Thomson is a former English cricketer who played in five Tests in 1964-65.Ian Thomson was a medium-fast right-arm swing and seam bowler of accuracy and consistency and a useful lower-order batsman...
|
1527 |
| James Langridge James Langridge, born at Newick, Sussex, on July 10, 1906 and died at Brighton on September 10, 1966, was a cricketer who played for Sussex and England....
|
1416 |
| Fred Tate Frederick William Tate was an English cricketer who played in one Test in 1902. This was the famous match at Old Trafford which England lost by 3 runs, and with it the series...
|
1306 |
| Albert Wensley Bert Wensley was a first class cricketer . In 400 first class matches, mainly for Sussex from 1922 to 1936, he took 1,135 wickets with his medium pace bowling and scored over 10,000 runs....
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1067 |
| Jim Cornford James Henry Cornford was a first class cricketer . He was born in Sussex in 1911 and played 322 first class matches, largely for Sussex County Cricket Club, between 1931 and 1952. A right arm fast medium bowler, he took 1019 wickets at 26.49 with a best of 9 for 53. He was very much a tail end...
|
1019 |
Team
- Highest Total For – 742/5d v Somerset at Taunton (2009)
- Highest Total Against – 726 by Nottinghamshire at Nottingham (1895)
- Lowest Total For – 19 v Surrey at Godalming (1830)
- Lowest Total Against – 18 by Kent at Gravesend (1867)
Batting
- Highest Score – 344* MW Goodwin v Somerset at Taunton (2009)
- Most Runs in Season – 2850 JG Langridge (1949)
- Most Runs in Career – 34152 JG Langridge (1928-1955)
Highest partnership for each wicket
- 1st – 490 EH Bowley and JG Langridge v Middlesex at Hove (1933)
- 2nd – 385 EH Bowley and MW Tate v Northamptonshire at Hove (1921)
- 3rd – 385* MH Yardy and MW Goodwin v Warwickshire at Hove (2006)
- 4th – 363 MW Goodwin and C Hopkinson v Somerset at Taunton (2009)
- 5th – 297 JH Parks and HW Parks v Hampshire at Portsmouth (1937)
- 6th – 255 KS Duleepsinhji and MW Tate v Northamptonshire at Hove (1930)
- 7th – 344 KS Ranjitsinhji and W Newham v Essex at Leyton (1902)
- 8th – 291 RSC Martin–Jenkins and MJG Davis v Somerset at Taunton (2002)
- 9th – 178 HW Parks and AF Wensley v Derbyshire at Horsham (1930)
- 10th – 156 GR Cox and HR Butt v Cambridge University at Cambridge (1908)
Bowling
- Best Bowling – 10-48 CHG Bland v Kent at Tonbridge (1899)
- Best Match Bowling – 17-106 GR Cox v Warwickshire at Horsham (1926)
- Wickets in Season – 198 MW Tate (1925)
- Wickets in Career – 2211 MW Tate (1912-1937)
Sussex Fact and Feats
- In 1938, three sets of brothers represented Sussex in the County Championship: James and John Langridge, Charlie and John Oakes, and Harry and Jim (sr) Parks.
- E. B. Dwyer
John Elicius Benedict Bernard Placid Quirk Carrington Dwyer , better known as E.B. Dwyer, was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket in England for Sussex County Cricket Club....
(short for J.E.B.B.P.Q.C. Dwyer) played 61 times for Sussex between 1904 and 1909. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1876 he died in Crewe in 1912. He took 9-35 v Derbyshire at Hove in 1906. He was the great-grandson of Michael Dwyer, a convict who had been transported to Australia after the Irish insurrection of 1798.
- J.H. Parks scored 3,000 runs for Sussex in 1937 and took 100 wickets with inswingers and off cutters. He was capped just once for England that summer.
- Hugh Bartlett
Hugh Tryon Bartlett DFC was a brilliant attacking left-handed batsman who played for Sussex on either side of the war.-Early years:...
hit a hundred in only 57 minutes against Bradman's 1938 Australians.
- The club was left a sum of more more than £10 million by former President Spen Cama.
Further reading
- Timothy J McCann
Timothy J. McCann has been an archivist at the West Sussex Record Office in Chichester since 1967.He has written several books about the history of Sussex including a classic work on cricket: Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century .He previously wrote and edited The Correspondence of the Dukes...
, Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century, Sussex Record Society, 2004
- Playfair Cricket Annual : various issues
- Wisden Cricketers Almanack (annual): various issues