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Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of the 18 major county

Historic counties of England

The historic counties of England are subdivisions of England established for administration by the Normans and in most cases based on earlier Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and shires...

clubs which make up the English

England

England 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, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

and Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

domestic cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

structure, representing the historic county of Sussex

Sussex

Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an 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...

. The club was founded as a successor to Brighton Cricket Club

Brighton Cricket Club

Brighton Cricket Club was based at Brighton, Sussex and was briefly a major cricket team, playing four known first-class matches in the 1792 season, at which time it was representative of Sussex as a county....

which was a representative of the county of Sussex as a whole. Its limited overs team is called the Sussex Sharks. The club colours are traditionally blue and white and the shirt sponsor is Farnrise Construction. As England's oldest county club, it is the world's oldest first class cricket club. The club's home ground is the County Cricket Ground, Hove

County Cricket Ground, Hove

The County Cricket Ground, also known as the Probiz County Ground for sponsorship reasons, is a cricket venue in Hove, England. It is home to Sussex County Cricket Club. It is one of the few county grounds to have deckchairs for spectators - which are in the colours of Sussex CCC - blue and white....

. Sussex also play matches around the county at out grounds Arundel

Arundel Castle Cricket Ground

Arundel Castle CC is a cricket ground in Arundel, England. The ground was first used by the Sussex 1st XI in 1972 for limited-over matches and in 1990 for County Championship matches...

, Eastbourne

The Saffrons

The Saffrons is a multi-purpose sports ground in Eastbourne, East Sussex. The ground is home to Eastbourne Cricket Club, Eastbourne Hockey Club and Eastbourne Town Football Club. There is also an astroturf pitch....

and Horsham

Horsham Cricket Club

Horsham Cricket Club is one of the oldest cricket clubs in the world and represents 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, and Horsham Cricket Club was created soon after 1806...

.

Sussex won its first ever official County Championship

County Championship

The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...

title in 2003 after a wait of 164 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 to clinch the C&G Trophy

C&G Trophy

The Friends Provident Trophy was a one-day cricket competition in the United Kingdom.It was one of the four tournaments in which the eighteen first-class counties compete each season. They were joined by teams from Scotland and Ireland...

, before winning the County Championship

County Championship

The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...

following an emphatic victory against Nottinghamshire, 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 , Sussex defeated Worcestershire, with title rivals Lancashire narrowly failing to beat Surrey with the match going on to past 5 o'clock, - prompting relieved celebrations at the County Cricket Ground, Hove

County Cricket Ground, Hove

. Sussex enjoyed further limited overs success with consecutive Pro40 wins in 2008 and 2009 as well as beating Somerset

Somerset County Cricket Club

Somerset County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Somerset...

at Edgbaston

Edgbaston Cricket Ground

Edgbaston Cricket Ground, also known as the County Ground or Edgbaston Stadium, is a cricket ground in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England...

to lift the 2009 Twenty20 Cup

Twenty20 Cup

The Twenty20 Cup was a cricket competition for English and Welsh county clubs.In 2010, it has been replaced by Friends Provident t20 as the domestic Twenty20 competition.-History:...

. The south coast county ended the decade having won ten trophies in ten years.

Honours

County Championship (3) – 2003, 2006, 2007

Division Two (2) – 2001, 2010

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 Kent

Kent

Kent 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 Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...

, is believed to be the birthplace of cricket. It is widely held that cricket was invented by children living on the Weald

Weald

The Weald is the name given to an area in South East England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs. It should be regarded as three separate parts: the sandstone "High Weald" in the centre; the clay "Low Weald" periphery; and the Greensand Ridge which...

in Saxon or Norman times.

See : History of cricket to 1696

History of cricket to 1696

The 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 12d

Shilling

The shilling is a unit of currency used in some current and former British Commonwealth countries. The word shilling comes from scilling, an accounting term that dates back to Anglo-Saxon times where it was deemed to be the value of a cow in Kent or a sheep elsewhere. The word is thought to derive...

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 War

English Civil War

The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists...

. It is believed that the earliest county teams were formed in the aftermath of the Restoration

English Restoration

The Restoration of the English monarchy began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under Charles II after the Interregnum that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms...

in 1660. In 1697, the earliest "great match" recorded was for 50 guineas apiece between two elevens at a venue in Sussex: it was possibly an inter-county match and it has been classified as the earliest known significant match in cricket history.

Matches involving the two great Sussex patrons Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond

Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond

The 2nd Duke of Richmond has been described as early cricket's greatest patron. Although he had played cricket as a boy, his real involvement began after he succeeded to the dukedom...

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 1741

1741 English cricket season

The 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 Club

Slindon Cricket Club

Slindon 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 Ground

Prince of Wales Ground

The 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 Broadbridge

Jem Broadbridge

James "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...

and William Lillywhite

William Lillywhite

Frederick William Lillywhite was a famous English cricketer during the game's roundarm era...

.

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 Brighton

Brighton

Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England 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 MCC

Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...

at Lord's

Lord's Cricket Ground

Lord'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 Martlet

Martlet

A martlet is a heraldic charge depicting a stylized bird with short tufts of feathers in the place of legs...

, 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

Park Crescent, Brighton

Park Crescent is a mid-19th-century residential development in the Round Hill area of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. The horseshoe-shaped, three-part terrace of 48 houses was designed and built by one of Brighton's most important architects, Amon Henry Wilds; by the...

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

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Gloucestershire. Its limited overs team is called the Gloucestershire Gladiators....

. As well as the County Ground, Hove, the Club's First and Second XI regularly play around the County, the grounds at Arundel

Arundel Castle

Arundel Castle in Arundel, West Sussex, England is a restored medieval castle. It was founded by Roger de Montgomery on Christmas Day 1067. Roger became the first to hold the earldom of Arundel by the graces of William the Conqueror...

and Horsham

Horsham Cricket Club

playing host to First XI fixtures. Sussex have also played first class matches at grounds in Sheffield Park, Chichester, Worthing

Manor Sports Ground

The Manor Sports Ground, is a cricket venue in Worthing, West Sussex, England. It is home to Worthing Cricket Club.-History:One of the earliest recorded cricket matches at the Manor Sports Ground was on 17 July 1902 when Sussex Second XI took on Essex Second XI...

, Eastbourne

The Saffrons

and Hastings

Priory Meadow Shopping Centre

Priory Meadow Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in Hastings, East Sussex, England. The centre was opened in 1997 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The local radio station Arrow FM, which was founded in 1998, is broadcast from the centre....

2011 Squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
3	Murray Goodwin 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....	11 December 1972 (age 39)	Right-handed	Right arm leg break Leg break A leg break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. A delivery of a right-handed leg spin bowler. Leg breaks are also colloquially known as leggies or wrist spinners, as the wrist is the body part which is primarily used to impart spin on the ball, as opposed to the fingers in the case of...	Kolpak registration Vice-Captain
15	Matt Machan Matt Machan Matthew William Machan is an English cricketer. Machan is a left-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break. He was born in Brighton, Sussex and educated at Hurstpierpoint College and Brighton College....	15 February 1991 (age 20)	Right-handed	Left-hand medium pace
23	Chris Nash Chris Nash Christopher David "Chris" 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.Nash was born in Cuckfield, Sussex...	19 May 1983 (age 28)	Right-handed	Right arm off break Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners....
24	Ed Joyce Ed Joyce Edmund Christopher Joyce is an Irish cricketer who has played for both the Irish and English national cricket teams. After beginning his career with Middlesex, he moved to Sussex in 2009. A left-handed batsman and occasional right-arm bowler of medium pace, Joyce is widely regarded as one of the...	22 September 1978 (age 33)	Left-handed	Right arm medium pace
25	Joe Gatting Joe Gatting Joe Stephen Gatting is a footballer and cricketer who plays for Whitehawk and Sussex respectively. Gatting previously played football for Brighton & Hove Albion as a striker before being released on 31 October 2008...	25 November 1987 (age 24)	Right-handed	Right arm off break Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners....
31	Luke Wells Luke Wells Luke William Peter Wells, known as Luke, is a cricketer, who plays for Sussex County Cricket Club. A left-handed top order batsman and occasional right-arm offspin bowler, he made his debut at the end of the 2010 season. Wells is the son of former England player, Alan Wells, and the nephew of...	29 December 1990 (age 21)	Left-hand	Right arm off break Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners....
78	Lou Vincent Lou Vincent Lou Vincent is a professional New Zealand cricketer. He has represented New Zealand in Test match, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket as well as playing for Auckland in New Zealand domestic cricket and Worcestershire and Lancashire in English domestic cricket.-Early and...	11 November 1978 (age 33)	Right-hand	Right arm medium pace	British passport
All-rounders
10	Luke Wright	7 March 1985 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
20	Michael Yardy Michael Yardy Michael Howard Yardy is an English cricketer. 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...	27 November 1980 (age 31)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox Left-arm orthodox spin Left-arm orthodox spin is a type of bowling in the sport of cricket.Left-arm orthodox spin is bowled by a left arm bowler using the fingers to spin the ball from right to left of the cricket pitch...	Club captain Captain (cricket) The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player...
16	Rana Naved-ul-Hasan Rana Naved-ul-Hasan Rana Naved-ul-Hasan is a cricketer who plays for the Pakistani Test and One Day International teams...	28 February 1978 (age 33)	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...	Overseas Player
Wicket-keepers
13	Matt Prior	26 February 1982 (age 29)	Right-handed	—
26	Ben Brown Ben Brown (cricketer) 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...	23 November 1988 (age 23)	Right-handed	—
19	Andrew Hodd 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....	12 January 1984 (age 28)	Right-handed	—
Bowlers
21	Will Adkin	9 April 1990 (age 21)	Left-handed	Right arm fast medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
94	Wayne Parnell Wayne Parnell Wayne Dillon Parnell is a cricketer who plays Tests, One Day International and Twenty20 matches for South Africa. At domestic level he plays for the Warriors having previously represented Eastern Province, he has also played county cricket for Kent...	30 July 1989 (age 22)	Right-handed	Right arm fast Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...	Overseas player
7	Monty Panesar Monty Panesar Mudhsuden Singh Panesar, known as Monty Panesar , is an English cricketer who currently plays for Sussex. A left-arm spinner, Panesar played Test and one-day cricket for England until 2009. In English county cricket he played for Northamptonshire until 2009...	25 April 1982 (age 29)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox Left-arm orthodox spin Left-arm orthodox spin is a type of bowling in the sport of cricket.Left-arm orthodox spin is bowled by a left arm bowler using the fingers to spin the ball from right to left of the cricket pitch...
30	James Anyon James Anyon James Edward Anyon is a cricketer who currently plays for Sussex.He was educated in Lancashire before going to Loughborough University where Warwickshire spotted him playing for the University...	5 May 1983 (age 28)	Left-handed	Right arm fast-medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
11	Christopher Liddle Christopher Liddle Christopher Liddle is an English cricket player. He signed with Sussex in October 2006. -External links:*...	1 February 1984 (age 28)	Right-handed	Left arm fast-medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
18	William Beer 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....	8 October 1988 (age 23)	Right-handed	Right arm leg break Leg break A leg break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. A delivery of a right-handed leg spin bowler. Leg breaks are also colloquially known as leggies or wrist spinners, as the wrist is the body part which is primarily used to impart spin on the ball, as opposed to the fingers in the case of...
8	Naved Arif Gondal	2 November 1981 (age 30)	Left-handed	Left arm fast-medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...	European passport
2	Amjad Khan Amjad Khan Amjad Khan was an acclaimed Indian actor and director. He worked in over 130 films in his film career spanning nearly twenty years. He enjoyed popularity for his villainous roles in Hindi films the most famous being the unforgettable Gabbar Singh in 1975 classic Sholay...	14 October 1980 (age 31)	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium Fast bowling Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
22	Ollie Rayner 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 Middlesex.-Sussex:...	1 November 1985 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right arm off break Off break Off break is a type of delivery in the sport of cricket. It is the attacking delivery of an off spin bowler. Off breaks are known as off spinners....

Noted Sussex players

This list includes those Sussex players who have played in Test cricket

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

since 1877 and other players who made outstanding contributions (e.g., scoring most runs or taking most wickets in a season).
England

Chris Adams
Tim Ambrose
Tim Ambrose
Timothy Raymond Ambrose is an Australian born English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. He commenced his domestic career with Sussex in 2000, although he now plays for Warwickshire...
Ted Bowley
Ted Bowley
Edward Henry "Ted" Bowley, born at Leatherhead, Surrey on 6 June 1890 and died at Winchester on 9 July 1974, was a cricketer who played for Sussex and England....
Jem Broadbridge
Jem Broadbridge
James "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...
Harry Butt
Harry Butt
Henry Rigden Butt was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Sussex County Cricket Club and the Marylebone Cricket Club between 1890 and 1912. Butt also played three Test matches for England on their tour to South Africa in 1895-96...
Henry Charlwood
Henry Charlwood
Henry Rupert James Charlwood played cricket professionally for England in the first two Test matches ever played, which were against Australia in 1877. Charlwood was a top order batsman and occasional lob bowler.-References:**-External links:*...
George Cox senior
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...
Jemmy Dean
Jemmy Dean
James "Jemmy" Dean was an English cricketer who played for Sussex County Cricket Club in the 19th century....
Ted Dexter
Ted Dexter
Edward Ralph Dexter CBE is a former English cricketer...
Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji
Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji
Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji Jadeja was a cricketer who played for England. He was educated at the Rajkumar College, Rajkot, India.-Career:...
C. B. Fry
Ed Giddins
Ed Giddins
Edward Simon Hunter Giddins is a former English cricketer who played in four Tests from 1999 to 2000. Giddins played for four counties during his career – Sussex, Warwickshire, Surrey and Hampshire.-New Zealand:...
Tony Greig
Tony Greig
Anthony "Tony" William Greig is a former English Test cricketer and currently a commentator.Born in Queenstown, South Africa, Greig qualified to play for England by virtue of his Scottish father. He was a tall batting all-rounder who bowled both medium pace and off spin. He became captain of the...
James Kirtley
James Kirtley
Robert James Kirtley is a former English Test cricketer, who was born on the 10 January 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...
James Langridge
John Langridge
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"....
Jason Lewry
Jason Lewry
Jason Lewry is a former English cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-fast bowler.Born in Worthing, he played for Sussex from the beginning of his career in 1993 until his retirement in 2009. He has played Twenty20 cricket since 2003...
William Lillywhite
William Lillywhite
Frederick William Lillywhite was a famous English cricketer during the game's roundarm era...
Robin Martin-Jenkins
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...
Gehan Mendis
Gehan Mendis
Gehan Dixon Mendis was an opening batsman for Sussex County Cricket Club and Lancashire County Cricket Club ....
Richard Montgomerie
Richard Montgomerie
Richard Robert Montgomerie is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Sussex, Northamptonshire and Oxford University....
Peter Moores (cricketer)
Peter Moores (cricketer)
Peter Moores is a former English county cricketer. He played as a wicketkeeper for Worcestershire and Sussex He became the coach of Lancashire County Cricket Club, on 11 February 2009....
Alan Oakman
Alan Oakman
Alan Oakman was an English first-class cricketer. He had a long career for Sussex, playing 538 first-class matches over a 21-year period, and played two Test matches for England...
Monty Panesar
Monty Panesar
Mudhsuden Singh Panesar, known as Monty Panesar , is an English cricketer who currently plays for Sussex. A left-arm spinner, Panesar played Test and one-day cricket for England until 2009. In English county cricket he played for Northamptonshire until 2009...
Paul Parker (cricketer)
Paul Parker (cricketer)
Paul Parker MA is an English schoolmaster and former cricketer, who played in one Test in 1981.-Life and career:...
Jim Parks, Jr.
Jim Parks, Sr.
Matt Prior

K S Ranjitsinhji
K S Ranjitsinhji
Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar was an Indian prince and Test cricketer who played for the English cricket team...
Rajesh Krishnakant Rao
Rajesh Rao
Rajesh Krishnakant Rao is a former English cricketer. Rao was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg break googly. He was born in Park Royal, London.Rao made his first-class debut for Sussex against Cambridge University in 1996...
Dermot Reeve
Dermot Reeve
Dermot Alexander Reeve OBE is an English former cricketer, best known as an unorthodox all-rounder and, until recently, coach of the New Zealand side, Central Districts....
Albert Relf
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....
Ian Salisbury
Ian Salisbury
Ian David Kenneth Salisbury is an English former cricketer, one of the few leg-spinners to play Test cricket for England in recent years. Salisbury played in fifteen Tests and four One Day Internationals betwwen 1992 and 2000...
David Sheppard
David Sheppard
David Stuart Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool was the high-profile Bishop of Liverpool in the Church of England who played cricket for Sussex and England in his youth...
John Snow
John Snow (cricketer)
John Augustine Snow played cricket for Sussex and England in the 1960s and 1970s. Despite being the son of a country vicar and publishing two volumes of poetry Snow was England's most formidable fast bowler between Fred Trueman and Bob Willis and played Test Matches with both of them at either end...
Martin Speight
Martin Speight
Martin Speight was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper. He was educated at Hurstpierpoint College and St Chad's College, Durham University...
Ken Suttle
Ken Suttle
Kenneth George 'Ken' Suttle was an English cricketer. He was primarily a left-handed batsman but was also a useful slow left-arm bowler. His first-class career with Sussex lasted from 1949 to 1971. He played in 612 first-class matches...
Maurice Tate
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...
Joe Vine
Joe Vine
Joseph Vine was a professional cricketer, who played his first-class cricket for Sussex County Cricket Club and London County...
Alan Wells
Alan Wells
Alan Peter Wells is an English cricketer. He played for Sussex from 1981 to 1996, where he was captain from 1992 to 1996. He then played for Kent from 1997 to 2000...
Colin Wells (cricketer)
John Wisden
John Wisden
John Wisden was an English cricketer who played 190 first-class cricket matches for three English county cricket teams, Kent, Middlesex and Sussex...
Luke Wright
Luke Wright (cricketer)
Luke James Wright is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium bowler. Born in Grantham, Wright joined Sussex in 2004, having started his career at Leicestershire. He was named in England's squad for the Under-19 World Cup in 2004, and joined the International...
Michael Yardy
Michael Yardy
Michael Howard Yardy is an English cricketer. 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...

Australia

Michael Bevan
Michael Bevan
Michael Gwyl Bevan is a former Australian left-handed cricket batsman and a slow left arm chinaman bowler. He played 232 ODI matches for Australia, and was a part of the 1999 and 2003 teams that won the World Cup...
Tony Dodemaide
Tony Dodemaide
Anthony Ian Christopher Dodemaide is a former Australian Test Cricketer. After a three year stint as Chief Executive of the Western Australian Cricket Association in Perth, he is the current Chief Executive of Cricket Victoria...
Michael Di Venuto
Michael Di Venuto
Michael James Di Venuto is a former Australian cricketer of Italian descent who played first-class cricket for Tasmanian Tigers and One Day Internationals for Australia. Although he has retired from representative cricket in Australia, he currently continues to play for Durham CCC. He has also...

New Zealand

Brendon McCullum
Brendon McCullum
Brendon Barrie McCullum is a New Zealand international cricketer, who plays for the Otago Volts at provincial level. He is a wicket-keeper, as well as an aggressive batsman who opens in One-day Internationals and is known for his fast scoring rate...

South Africa

Garth Le Roux
Garth Le Roux
Garth Stirling Le Roux in Kenilworth, Cape Town is a former South African first class cricketer. He went to Wynberg Boys High School, graduating in 1973....
Wayne Parnell
Wayne Parnell
Wayne Dillon Parnell is a cricketer who plays Tests, One Day International and Twenty20 matches for South Africa. At domestic level he plays for the Warriors having previously represented Eastern Province, he has also played county cricket for Kent...
Johannes van der Wath
Johannes van der Wath
-Playing style:Johan is a very attacking and aggressive Right Handed Batsman who usually bats in the lower middle order coming in and increasing the strike rate. He is also a very aggressive Right Arm Medium-Fast Bowler who regularly takes wickets with the new ball....
Kepler Wessels
Kepler Wessels
Kepler Christoffel Wessels is a former South African cricketer who captained South Africa after playing 24 Tests for Australia. He was the first man to have played One Day International cricket for two countries....

West Indies

Vasbert Drakes
Vasbert Drakes
Vasbert Conniel Drakes is a West Indian cricketer. He was a right-arm fast bowler and handy right-hand lower order batsman....
Corey Collymore
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...
Dwayne Smith
Dwayne Smith
Dwayne Romel Smith is a cricketer who has represented the West Indies. An all-rounder, he is known as an aggressive and powerful right-handed batsman, bowls medium pace, and is also an athletic fielder. Smith has played for Barbados since the start of his career but has also played three seasons...
Franklyn Stephenson
Franklyn Stephenson
Franklyn DaCosta Stephenson, born at Saint James, Barbados on 8 April 1959, is a former cricketer who had a first-class career for teams in four continents...

Zimbabwe

Murray Goodwin
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....

Pakistan

Mohammad Akram
Mohammad Akram
Mohammad Akram is a Pakistani right arm fast-medium bowler in cricket, he plays for Surrey County Cricket Club. He played in 9 Test matches and 23 One Day International matches for Pakistan between 1995–1996 and 2000-2001.He is 6'2 tall and Akram is nicknamed Haji...
Mushtaq Ahmed
Mushtaq Ahmed
Mushtaq Ahmed is a retired Pakistani cricketer who specialised as a leg spin bowler. He was known for his hard-to-pick googly. He memorably trapped Graeme Hick in front with one during the 1992 World Cup final. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1997...
Imran Khan
Imran Khan
Imran Khan Niazi is a Pakistani politician and former Pakistani cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics...
Javed Miandad
Javed Miandad
Mohammad Javed Miandad Khan , popularly known as Javed Miandad , is a former Pakistani cricketer who played between 1975 and 1996. He is Pakistan's leading run scorer in Test cricket. He has served as a captain of the Pakistan national cricket team...
Saqlain Mushtaq
Saqlain Mushtaq
Saqlain Mushtaq is a Pakistani cricketer, regarded as one of the finest off spin bowlers of all time.He is best known for pioneering the "doosra", which he employed to great effect during his career...
Rana Naved-ul-Hasan
Rana Naved-ul-Hasan
Rana Naved-ul-Hasan is a cricketer who plays for the Pakistani Test and One Day International teams...
Yasir Arafat
Yasir Arafat (cricketer)
Yasir Arafat Satti is a Pakistani cricketer. He bats right-handed and bowls right-arm fast medium.-International career:...
Umar Gul
Umar Gul
Umar Gul is a Pakistani right arm fast medium bowler in cricket who has played Test matches, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals for the Pakistani cricket team...

India

Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Mansoor Ali Khan or Mansur Ali Khan , sometimes M.A.K. Pataudi , nicknamed Tiger Pataudi, was an Indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian cricket team...
Piyush Chawla
Piyush Chawla
Piyush Pramod Chawla is an Indian cricketer who has played for the India U-19 team and the Central Zone. His Hometown is Moradabad,. He is seen as a leg-spinning allrounder in domestic cricket, but has not fired as a batsman in the One Day International format...

Netherlands

Bas Zuiderent

Sussex Women

Sussex Women have produced many England

England

capped players. These include:

Clare Connor
Clare Connor
Clare Joanne Connor OBE, is an English all-round cricketer who bats right-handed and bowls slow left arm spin. She made her England One Day International debut in 1995 and played her first Test match that winter. She took a hat-trick against India in 1999 and captained England from 2000 until her...

(Captain of 2005 Ashes Winning Side)
Caroline Atkins
Caroline Atkins
Caroline Mary Ghislaine Atkins is an 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 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 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
Laura Marsh
Laura Alexandra Marsh is an English cricketer. She began playing cricket at 11 and started her career as a medium pace bowler but found greater success when she switched to off spin. She plays country cricket for Sussex, represents the Rubies and made her Test debut against India in 2006...
Sarah Taylor
Sarah Taylor (cricketer)
Sarah Jane Taylor is an English cricketer. She is a wicketkeeper-batsman known for her free flowing stroke play, opening the batting in one day matches and batting in the middle order in Tests. She was a member of the England team which retained the Ashes in Australia in 2008. She plays county...

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 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"....	34150
Kenneth Suttle	29375
Jim Parks junior Jim Parks junior Jim Parks is an English former cricketer. He played in forty six Tests for England, between 1954 and 1968...	29138
James Langridge	28894
Ted Bowley Ted Bowley Edward Henry "Ted" Bowley, born at Leatherhead, Surrey on 6 June 1890 and died at Winchester on 9 July 1974, was a cricketer who played for Sussex and England....	25439
Joseph Vine	24120
George Cox junior 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 Oakman Alan Oakman was an English first-class cricketer. He had a long career for Sussex, playing 538 first-class matches over a 21-year period, and 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 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 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 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	1527
James Langridge	1416
Fred Tate 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 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....	1067
Jim Cornford 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
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
Crewe
Crewe is a railway town within the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 census the urban area had a population of 67,683...

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 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 Don Bradman's 1938 Australians.
The club was left a sum of more than £10 million by former President Spen Cama.

External links

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