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WELCOME TO ARUNDEL For more than 25 years Arundel has opened its gates to Sussex County Cricket and provided as beautiful a backdrop for the game imaginable. Practically all the great players have visited us over the years and taken advantage of sublime conditions both on and off the field.

Brian Lara scored runs and Shane Warne took wickets. More recently, Sussex players have thrived in the conditions: Chris Adams and Murray Goodwin in particular; in fact, most of the recent Sussex players have had their moments on their way to three County Championships. Jason Lewry loved bowling here, indeed he first came to prominence at Arundel back in 1993 as a 23 year old when he played for the Duchess of Norfolk’s XI against M.C.C. Both Ian Gould (by then back at Middlesex) and Jack Simmons of Lancashire were hugely impressed but Jason was a Sussex boy and never likely to play for anyone else. There has always been a theory - a myth maybe - that a ground surrounded by trees encourages the ball to swing. Something in the leaves perhaps. Cloudy skies seem to have the same effect. Whatever it is, the ball would swing for Jason at Arundel. From a comfortable run-up - just a few strides and easy action, he had the knack of dismissing good players, mostly right-handers and lots of them lbw. Umpires were important to Lewry and doubtless he chatted them up remorselessly.

Sadly, there will be no Lewry for this festival. And no Adams, Montgomerie, Kirtley or Martin-Jenkins either - quite a dent in Sussex’s armoury you would think. And yet, under Yardy’s leadership and Robinson’s direction behind the scenes, Sussex has made notable and encouraging progress. Nash and Joyce have formed a compelling opening partnership; Wells has been a revelation coming in at number three and showing real class and commitment in his first season. Yardy and Goodwin give the side a very strong backbone from which to thrive. These are exciting times and none more so than when Panesar, with his jaunty style and air of optimism, bowls as though he expects to take wickets and certainly we are full of hope as we sit and watch.

All this and much more. I hope you enjoy a wonderful festival.

John Barclay Director of Cricket, Friends of Arundel Castle CC

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Mark Robinson CMJ: Festival Cricket Future of the Festivals Great games Q and A Festival memories Arundel records Around Arundel John Snow feature Sussex’s treasures Sussex averages 2011 Warwickshire squad Tim Ambrose Fore! It’s Frankie Arundel Memories Is Monty the man?

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Why we all love coming to arundel For me, coming to Arundel is always one of the highlights of the season, not least because it’s only 15 minutes from home!

You can’t but fall in love with the place whether you are playing or watching. It is the quintessential English cricket ground – a natural ampitheatre, trees all round and a castle and a church in the distance. What more do you want?

I love Hove and the seaside but I think it is important that we take cricket around Sussex which is way festival weeks here at Arundel and Horsham next month should remain an integral part of the calendar.

We get looked after off the pitch and the wicket here is normally pretty good. We have had some excellent results at Arundel over recent years which suggest conditions suit us.

There are the old theories that the trees make the ball swing. I’m not so sure about that but I know Jason Lewry, who could swing it round corners, regarded Arundel as his favourite ground and had a lot of success here.

For a while about ten years ago the wickets were quite slow but in recent years they have tended to turn more. Who will ever forget the duels Mushtaq Ahmed had with Shane Warne when we played Hampshire? Two legends of the game battling it out – it was a pleasure to watch – or last year when Monty Panesar took what

we hope will be the first of many five-fors in the win over Gloucestershire.

Warwickshire are a very good side so this week’s Championship game is going to be hard fought. It is their first visit here and I’m sure they will enjoy the experience and it will be good to catch up with one of our own, Tim Ambrose, again.

We then have a Twenty20 match against Gloucestershire Gladiators on Sunday.

It’s fair to say the public of West Sussex embraced the short-format game a year ago with over 7,000 in the crowd for the visit of Surrey Lions. We were in a poor run in the competition at that stage and were well beaten but we hope for better fortunes this year.

Arundel crowds tend to be appreciative of good cricket and for a lot of people this is the only time they get to watch the county side during the summer so it is important for us to put in good performances.

Hopefully we will have five days of blissful sunshine, good cricket and two Sussex wins to celebrate at the end of it. That’s not too much to ask is it?

On behalf of the players and team behind the scenes, thanks for your support.

Mark Robinson, Professional Cricket Manager

Spin King: Mushtaq Ahmed loved bowling at Arundel

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Festival time again Christopher Martin-Jenkins, the Test Match Special commentator and former cricket correspondent of The Times and the Daily Telegraph, outlines why he is passionate in his support of the county cricket festival week All the talk in official cricket circles recently was cutting down the amount of County Championship cricket. To my mind it is foolish talk, for a number of reasons that include the uncertainty of the weather and the danger that festival cricket, the very essence of the county game, will become even rarer than it already is. Oh my Harrogate and my Buxton long ago.

There was a time, and still is in the more enlightened counties, when the county coming to town was a big event, anticipated long in advance, relished while the cricket

was in progress and reviewed with pleasure months later. Sometimes games are never forgotten, such as the one started and finished after a thunderstorm on the extraordinary opening day of the Tunbridge Wells week in 1960.

Kent and Worcester began battle at11.30 am, Kent reaching 80 for four by lunch before being bowled out for 187 at 3.40pm.

The left-handed Peter Jones made 73, very nearly as many as Worcestershire managed in their two innings of 25 and 61. Witnesses reported small craters appearing when the

ball pitched, much to the liking of Dave Halfyard and Alan Brown, who took nine cheap wickets each. By 7.15 it was all over.

Every now and then freak events occur and pitches are not what they should be for top-class cricketers. They are the exceptions to the general rule that county cricket is better tuned to small, intimate grounds than it is to echoing caverns like The Oval or Edgbaston, places that come alive on the big international occasion but that too often seem glum and empty when they play host to the homespun atmosphere of the County Championship game.

County cricket flourishes, absorbs and excites in places such as here at Arundel and Abergavenny, Bath and Burton-on-Trent, Colchester and Colwyn Bay, Dover and Dudley, Eastbourne and Ebbw Vale. I shall not try to get to the end of the alphabet but there would not be many letters missing if I did. Many of the places that no longer get the chance to stage county cricket have quite beautiful grounds, and those that remain generally do so still.

The cricket is characterised by a strong local spirit, while players and spectators are brought close together to the benefit of both. The surroundings, seldom far from a church or pub or both, are invariably adorned by old and beautiful trees that help the ball to swing, not to mention shortish boundaries that encourage bats to do the same. Good weather usually guarantees good-sized crowds and a precious amalgam of tension and relaxation.

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We all know the reasons for the decrease in the number of festival games. All counties have more or less developed their main grounds, at an accelerated rate in recent years. Some of them have got into serious financial difficulties as a result. Once there has been investment at a county’s headquarters it makes sense to use that ground as often as the number of pitches will sensibly allow. Overheads are less expensive that way.

The strong counter-arguments are that festival matches spread the gospel around the county, encourage local cricketers and cricket-watchers, make everyone feel part of the family of the game and give a focal point to the season for those clubs on whose grounds the county team comes to play. I know from the experience of my own local club, Horsham, how much that means to the members, many of whom get involved year after year in the nitty-gritty of preparing the pitches, making the teas, watering the flowerbaskets, erecting the tents that go up round the ground and organising the arrangements for dealing with an invasion of cars and spectators.

More than this, matches on out-grounds can still be great events for the town in question.

I suppose I have been to one of these games without seeing the local Mayor in attendance on one or other of the days but if so I cannot remember it. There always seems to be a large black car with a pennant billowing out from the bonnet parked in a position of prominence with a driver at the ready (albeit with an eye and a half on the cricket) to whisk the VIP back to the town hall after a good lunch.

At one match in Wales, in the glorious parkland setting of Pontypridd one wet day after play had been called off for the day and everyone had gone home, I promise you that the Mayor went ahead with his prepared lunchtime speech from the balcony, like Hitler at the Nuremberg rally, even though the field in front of him was empty and the handful of people who could actually hear him were all standing behind him, most of them invited journalists anxious not to waste the chance of a drink and some free sandwiches. By the same token the Mayor was not going to miss the opportunity to make a speech. “I’ve prepared it, boy, so I’m damned well going to give it.”

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It was, of course, at another mining town, Ebbw Vale, that Emrys Davies called his partner Gilbert Parkhouse across at the end of the over to tell him that he had just tapped down the pitch with his bat on a length and had a nasty surprise. “I could have sworn I heard someone answering back from below,” he said.

The fact is that if towns, cricket clubs and county executives all co-operate and appreciate the possibilities of festival games, they will benefit everyone concerned. The local economy gets a boost from an influx of visitors, helping shops, pubs, hotels and garages amongst others; the county gets a guaranteed profit if its officials have negotiated sensibly; and the home club itself gets plenty back in bar takings and prestige.

For me the likes of Aigburth and Basingstoke, not to mention more established favourites such as Cheltenham and Scarborough , are quintessential settings for the county game. Like the Championship itself the county festival weeks are a small but precious part of the English way of life.

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Why sussex are committed to festival cricket For many of our supporters, particularly those in West Sussex, Arundel week is their particular highlight of the cricket season And as someone who has been coming here for many years myself, it is easy to understand its attraction. On a warm, sunny day there is no finer sight in England than cricket in the shadow of Arundel Castle.

It is a tradition of our calendar that we as a club want to maintain and uphold. As Christopher Martin-Jenkins mentions elsewhere in this brochure, 20 years ago some counties thought nothing about taking the game to five or six out-grounds a year.

It is not so long ago that Eastbourne and Hastings were on our own fixture list and I would love to return to either venue in the future, because cricket in the east of the county has always been well supported. If the venue, wicket and facilities meet the standards we require I sincerely hope it will happen.

We are committed to festival cricket as long as it is supported by spectators and the corporate sector. It works financially as long as the grounds can be allocated a one-day match, whether it is Twenty20, as is the case at Arundel this year, or a longer version of the limited overs game which we have at Horsham next month.

It is one of the reasons why Sussex strongly opposed the reduction in home Twenty20 and 40 overs games that will happen in 2012. As a non-Test match ground why wouldn’t we want to open our gates for those matches that make money, whether it’s Hove, Arundel, Horsham or elsewhere, as often as possible? My rather poor analogy is that it is like a High Street retailer closing on Saturdays or not opening for the weeks running up to Christmas.

Test match grounds have the opportunity to make a huge amount of revenue from staging international cricket so staging Twenty20 helps balance that disparity of income for other clubs like Sussex who wish to remain competitive. You only had to be here

last year to gauge the Twenty20 popularity. It was probably the first time in the competition’s history that the start had to be delayed to allow everyone to get in. Let’s hope for a repeat this week.

For many people here this week the attraction is the more gentle rhythms of the County Championship and the visit of Warwickshire. I hope our visitors will enjoy the facilities and the stunning views. There is a wonderful vista from the Park End towards St Mary’s Church and the castle but my favourite is the view up the Arun Valley.

For the festival to be a continued success we are very appreciative of the work put in by John Barclay and his team here and the Friends of Arundel Castle Cricket Club. They do a great job and fortunately it has become a venue where the team has done well in the last few years.

My own personal memories in recent years are of Jason Lewry running riot against opposition batsmen on the ground he always regarded as his favourite, of Mark Robinson showing the straightest of bats in the final overs to deny his former county Yorkshire and of Chris Adams’ brilliant 163 against Middlesex – still the highest one-day score in our history – back in 1999 when he peppered the trees and a few spectators with a barrage of sixes.

I am planning to experience the Scarborough Festival for the first time when we head to Yorkshire next month. I love visiting out-ground cricket and Scarborough, of course, has a wonderful reputation. Mind you, it will have to be something special to beat what we have here in Sussex.

Enjoy the week and I hope to bump into as many of you as possible during the next few days.

Jim May, Chairman

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SIX Great Games At Arundel 1994 Sussex had been coming to Arundel for four years for county week but this was their first victory. It also marked the first Championship appearance of Jason Lewry who, over the next 16 years, took more than 600 wickets for the county. It was some debut too. Lewry’s first victim in a first-innings return of 4-40 was former England captain Mike Gatting as Middlesex were bowled out for 87. Sussex took a first-innings lead of 141 and the left-armer finished with 4-40. Bill Athey and Martin Speight both scored half-centuries and then Middlesex, set 380 to win, were dismissed for 231 with Ian Salisbury taking 6-55.

1995 New Zealander Chris Cairns produced the finest bowling seen in a Championship game at Arundel. Sultry conditions were ideal for swing bowling and the tall Cairns exploited them magnificently.

Eight Sussex batsmen were dismissed for single-figure scores in the first innings when Cairns took 8-47 and then, after Notts had taken a lead of 121, he ran through Sussex again with 7-36 as Notts completed a ten-wicket win inside two days. Sussex opener Neil Lenham had his finger broken by Cairns in the first over of the match and didn’t bat in the second innings.

2003 Tony Cottey and Tim Ambrose led Sussex to a thrilling victory in the last hour as they maintained the mid-season momentum that eventually took Sussex to their first Championsip title. Cottey, who was enjoying the best form of his Sussex career, had earlier made 107 as his side took a first-innings lead of 19. Essex lost their last five wickets for 29 on the final morning as Jason Lewry completed his second five-for of the match to leave Sussex with a victory target of 254. Cottey fell two short of a second hundred in the match but an unbeaten 93 from Ambrose saw Sussex to a sixwicket win.

Chris Cairns took 15 wickets in 1995, the best bowling performance in Championship games at Arundel

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2005 In one of his final Championship appearances for Sussex, current coach Mark Robinson defied his old county for 11 balls and 18 minutes at the end as the hosts clung on for a draw with nine wickets down in their second innings. Earlier, Robinson had taken three wickets as Yorkshire were dismissed for 255 in their first dig and Sussex replied with 392 with Richard Montgomerie, Matt Prior and Mark Davis all compiling half-centuries.

But then Aussie Darren Lehmann turned the complexion of the contest on its head with a brilliant six-hour 216 as he added 238 for the third wicket with Anthony McGrath. With Michael Lumb adding 92 Yorkshire were able to declare on the final morning with a lead of 320 and Sussex had 79 overs to chase an unlikely target.

They slumped to 102 for 6 but Kevin Innes and Robin MartinJenkins shared in important stands with Prior, who nursed Robinson to stumps in a thrilling finale and made an undefeated 70.

2006 Sussex were heading towards their second title and Yorkshire offered little resistance as victory was completed inside three days.

Makeshift opener Craig White made a first-innings century but England captain Michael Vaughan, making his comeback after injury, was bowled by Jason Lewry and Yorkshire’s first innings’ 238 looked inadequate on a good pitch. It was made to look as much by a magnificent 235 from Murray Goodwin, 107 by Chris Adams and 86 not out on debut by Yasir Arafat. It gave Sussex a lead of 312 and Yorkshire were bowled out for 287 despite a superb 130 from Darren Lehmann.

2007 In the battle of two world-class leg spinners Mushtaq Ahmed out-bowled Shane Warne as Sussex defeated their old rivals and continued their march towards back-to-back titles. Warne took 5-91 but Sussex still took a first innings lead of 139 after Mushy produced the perfect riposte with 7-72. Chris Adams’ second-innings century and subsequent declaration left Hampshire needing 440 to win and although Mushtaq had to settle for just two wickets in their second innings Sussex’s seamers plugged away to help complete victory by 166 runs midway through the final afternoon.

Shane Warne played many times for Hampshire and Australia at Arundel, but was out-bowled by Mushtaq Ahmed in 2007

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“I don’t like to base myself on other people, I want to be the first Wayne Parnell rather than anyone else!”

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Wayne’s world

Sussex’s new overseas player Wayne Parnell gives us his answers. Adam Matthews asks the questions Q What’s the best thing about playing for Sussex?

A I think firstly the professionalism and that competitive edge.

Obviously all teams have it but since I’ve been here I’ve seen real professionalism and that’s been the biggest aspect for me.

Q Which cricketer do you play like the most?

A I like to think that I’m different, but if I wanted to be someone I think I’d probably want to be skilful like Zaheer Khan. I don’t like to base myself on other people, I want to be the first Wayne Parnell rather than anyone else!

Q Who was your cricketing hero as a youngster?

A When I was growing up it was actually Gary Kirsten and Matthew Hayden. I think those two guys would be the ones as when I was younger, I was actually more of a batter. When I got into my teen years it was more left-armers like Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra.

Q Apart from The PROBIZ County Ground, Hove, which is your favourite ground to play at and why?

A I think Newlands in Cape Town, that would definitely be right up there. It’s one of the most beautiful grounds in the world. Personally I also like Pretoria, I’ve done really well there internationally and hopefully when I go back there I can continue that.

Q Who has the worst dress sense?

A Definitely Chris Liddle, with all the cardigans that he wears!

I think maybe sometimes he thinks he’s on the golf course rather than at a cricket ground!

Q Who has the worst taste in music?

A Amjad Khan tries to rival me to try and be a DJ so he’d have to be up there, he’s not as good as me though!

Q Who is the biggest joker in the squad?

A Andrew Hodd. No doubt about that one!

Q Who is the best trainer?

A In terms of skill I think everyone is on a par but the guy who really stands out is Monty Panesar, who will come in and do extra fielding practice by himself and from that perspective I haven’t seen anyone really do that anywhere else I’ve been so I’d nominate Monty for that.

Q What are your other interests outside cricket?

A I like DJ’ing and listening to music. I have an application on my iPad so when I’m chilling at home I like doing a bit of mixing.

Q What’s the best advice you could give to an aspiring cricketer?

A I think obviously hard work takes you places but also not trying too hard. I think what happens often is because young people are so eager to do well they actually try too hard and the screws come loose. The main thing is to know what you’re about and stay within those boundaries.

Q What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned so far in your career?

A Obviously when I first started I did really well but then I got injured and coming back from my injury I wanted to prove to everyone that I was back to where I was but by doing that I tried harder than I actually should have! I didn’t perform that well when I was coming back but now I’ve learned to tone it down, go back to basics and not think too hard.

Q Who has been the biggest influence on your career?

A Back home growing up it was Christo Esau, who was my junior coach up until under-19 level, then coming into the national team it was Vincent Barnes, the South African bowling coach who helped me a lot, not just on the field but also off the field, being both a friend and a coach. So those two would be the two people who have influenced my career the most.

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Great fun to play and great fun to watch Test Match Special’s Jonathan Agnew remembers his own experience of out-ground cricket and argues that festival cricket has to be nurtured by the counties I’m a real lover of county festival cricket, for the simple reason that it’s great fun to watch and great fun to play in. During my own playing career with Leicestershire (it’s funny - some people these days have totally forgotten that this ever happened!) I had the great fortune to try to bowl fast on a succession of slow, low club grounds at festival weeks.

Only kidding. The county cricket festival is a traditional part of the English game which needs to be nurtured and supported. It brings the county side to venues at which the staging of senior cricket is important for the continued growth and health of the game. It would be no good to anyone if county teams simply played all the time at their main headquarters.

The very essence of festival cricket is that the county’s best players get closer to their public. I can remember fielding on the boundary during county cricket weeks and the banter and the atmosphere is always different at the more intimate grounds where festival matches are held. Ladies Day at Canterbury Week might not be typical, as most county festivals are more prosaic than that, but tents around the boundary, jazz bands playing in the lunch interval, champagne corks popping and picnic baskets packed with goodies are all part of the fare you still mercifully see on many parts of the county circuit.

I am of course too modest simply to recall here some of my own performances at cricket weeks but I do remember with affection playing at places such as Cheltenham, Scarborough and The Mote in Maidstone. At Tunbridge Wells, in 1981, a certain David Gower made a lovely hundred for Leicestershire against Kent – which I always thought was appropriate, not just because of the beautiful setting but because Gower had been born in Tunbridge Wells, which is not widely known.

The fact that I was very much a bystander in that particular contest – it was rain-affected, two innings were forfeited, I bowled just two overs and was bowled for nought by Derek Underwood in Leicestershire’s only innings – does not lessen my affection at the memory of appearing at the picturesque Nevill Ground.

David Gower in action

Arundel Festival 2011 There are other festival grounds I recall fondly from my playing days: The Saffrons in Eastbourne, the Pen-y-pound ground at Abergavenny, Dean Park in Bournemouth, Queen’s Park in Chesterfield, and the Wagon Works Ground at Gloucester where, in 1988, Leicestershire won a fierce low-scoring game on a seaming pitch against a Gloucestershire side who were spearheaded by David ‘Syd’ Lawrence, Terry Alderman and Kevin Curran.

Our first innings score of 189 remained the highest of the match, but luckily our seam attack in those days was not too bad – Phillip DeFreitas, the rapid West Indian George Ferris, Chris Lewis plus myself – and we ended up winning by 60-odd runs.

North Marine Road, Scarborough, will always be a favourite ground of mine for the simple reason that I made my highest firstclass score of 90 there in 1987, against Yorkshire obviously, before being denied a maiden hundred by Paul Jarvis, who had me caught at the wicket by dear old David Bairstow.

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They are great memories to have, though, and it is the spirit of festival week cricket which I think best sums up its timeless appeal.

During rain interruptions on Test Match Special, the conversation often turns to incidents during games past. One of the funny stories I’ll always remember is of the time a match was held up by a mole burrowing up through the surface of the pitch. I’m sure it didn’t happen during a festival week first-class game… but perhaps it could easily have done.

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RECORDS AT ARUNDEL County Championship matches only Highest totals 566-8 dec: Leicestershire v Sussex 1999 550: Sussex v Yorkshire 2006 Lowest totals 71: Sussex v Worcestershire 1997 87: Middlesex v Sussex 1994 Highest individual scores 235: Murray Goodwin, Sussex v Yorkshire 2006 216: Darren Lehmann, Yorkshire v Sussex 2006 192: Chris Adams, Sussex v Derbyshire 2001 184: Murray Goodwin, Sussex v Hampshire 2008 160: Aftab Habib, Leicestershire v Sussex 1999 151* Michael Bevan, Sussex v Essex 2000 Highest partnership for each wicket 254 (4th): Murray Goodwin and Chris Adams, Sussex v Yorkshire 2006 194 (5th): Murray Goodwin and Carl Hopkinson, Sussex v Hampshire 2008 176 (6th): Chris Adams and Matt Prior, Sussex v Derbyshire 2001 126 (2nd): Paul Prichard and Darren Robinson, Essex v Sussex 2000 116 (9th): Graham Napier and Ryan ten Doeschate, Essex v Sussex 2003 Most wickets in a match 15-83: Chris Cairns, Nottinghamshire v Sussex 1995 Best bowling in an innings 8-47: Chris Cairns, Nottinghamshire v Sussex 1995 7-36: Chris Cairns, Nottinghamshire v Sussex 1995 7-72: Mushtaq Ahmed, Sussex v Hampshire 2006

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With the South Downs National Park, the coast and River Arun on our doorstep, the number of activities is limited only by your imagination.

Since 2010 Arundel has direct access to the river Arun with a new pontoon on the Town Quay. It also boasts one of the few remaining outdoor heated swimming pools in the South of England - Arundel Lido www.arundel-lido.com A short walk from the town centre you will find WWT Arundel Wetland Centre, 26 hectares of naturalised landscapes and home to kingfishers, water voles and many hundreds of wildfowl www.wwt.org.uk/visit-us/arundel

KEY EVENTS ARUNDEL FESTIVAL – 20-29 August A ten-day long celebration of the visual arts, music and drama, taking in the August Bank Holiday weekend. Since the first Arundel Festival over 30 years ago, it has retained both a community feel alongside large scale events at the Castle and regular favourites such as the Gallery Trail and Theatre Trail. www.arundelfestival.co.uk ARUNDEL FOOD FESTIVAL – 15-22 October The first Arundel Food Festival, which kicked off in October 2010, gave the traditional food festival concept a contemporary edge with a line-up of compelling and thought - provoking events, from vineyard and farm tours to food foraging (www. arundelfoodfestival.org.uk) ARUNDEL BY CANDLELIGHT – 10 December The historic streets are closed to traffic to accommodate the thousands who flock here every year. During the day you can make lanterns from recycled materials at workshops before joining the evening lantern-lit Nativity procession. Also expect live music, Father Christmas and stalls galore. www.arundel.org.uk Monthly Arundel’s Farmers Market takes place on the third Saturday of each month. For a full list of shops, restaurants and places to stay in Arundel visit www.arundel.org.uk

How To Get To Arundel Just 90 minutes from the centre of London, in the heart of West Sussex, is the picturesque market town of Arundel.

Arundel is easily reached by road or rail. Arundel station is just a short walk away from the town centre (Taxis are available adjacent to the station). The mainline Rail links are direct from London Bridge and London Victoria Stations (both about 90 minutes) and also Gatwick Airport (approximately 45 minutes).

Check with Southern Rail for updated timetables.

Driving is easy, coming from the West or East you’ll use the A27 and coming from north you can use the A29 (the A3 to the West and the A23 to the East provide links from the M25).

Regular Buses go from Brighton in the East and Chichester in the West from Stagecoach (route 700) and Compass for local connections (Routes 71, 84 and 85).

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A Thousand Years Of History

The skyline of Arundel is dominated by a gothic Cathedral and majestic Arundel Castle, which is the seat of The Dukes of Norfolk, set in 40 acres of sweeping grounds and gardens. Arundel Castle is open to visitors seasonally and is one of the great treasure houses of England, home to priceless works of art and The Collectors Earl’s Garden. www.arundelcastle.org Visitors can discover more about the town’s colourful past at the Arundel Museum History Store. www.arundelmuseum.org.uk

Culture, Markets, Festivals and other events in Arundel:

Almost every month there is something happening in Arundel whether it is a play up at the Priory Playhouse, Jazz club at the Victoria Institute, cinema in the Town Hall, a classical concert in St Nicholas or the Cathedral, Folk Music at the Football Club or a new art exhibition in one of the many galleries.

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Rebel without a pause

Even as he approaches his 70th birthday, John Snow still holds strong views about the game. Paul Weaver talks to the Sussex and England great

Pictures James Boardman

There is a widespread notion that John Snow, England’s finest fast bowler since Fred Trueman, would be ideally suited to the current age of central contracts and indulged cricketers.

So it is reassuring to discover that the player, who called his autobiography Cricket Rebel and whose strength of character so riled the game’ establishment, would still be admirably restless.

“Central contracts are pretty good and it would have been different for me today,” says the man who played when the only blimps at Lord’s were colonels. “I would have played a few more Tests because it’s better organised now.

“But there are still things that would upset me, like the ICC and the way things are done

that don’t make sense. And today players are on and off planes and in and out of hotels, which is pretty desperate stuff.

“The gym mentality they have today wouldn’t have gone down too well either.

There would also be an issue about the warmups before the game, where you turn up at 8.30 and run round for an hour before you get started.

“I would have been knackered. You can do too much physically, too much running and training. Your body needs to settle again.

So there would still have been problems.

“Things have improved but now it’s gone too much the other way. You are looked after almost too well. I wouldn’t want a bowling coach with me all the time either.

If things weren’t going well I would go and

ask Alan Knott or somebody. The ability take responsibility for your own game, to think on your feet, is maybe lacking a bit.”

As he approaches his 70th birthday later this year Snow still looks good for a sharp six overs from the sea end at Hove, achieving improbable bounce from just short of a length as well as prodigious seam movement, probing the batsman’s discomfort zone.

Or – it is easy to imagine – he could still be patrolling the boundary, with his poet’s nose held high as if to scent a passing sonnet.

England’s recent Ashes victory in Australia evoked memories of the time, 40 years ago, that Snow led another successful England campaign.

The grey locks that spill over his strong features betray something of his age but the figure is still spare and athletic looking and he is keeping fit by hammering in posts amid the dogs and donkeys near his home, a 15-minute drive north of Brighton.

He last played just two years ago. “I played at Sheffield Park, where the ground has been resurrected. I was bowling to Dean Jones and I tried to bowl him a leg-cutter and my shoulder went. Then he started whacking the ball around and I couldn’t see where it was coming from so I decided to hang up my boots.”

Just a few years ago, after being struck back over his head in another charity match, the batsman was startled to hear the ball whistling past his nose. “Well, that’s what a fast bowler is.” He smiled slowly, with gentle menace.

“I haven’t changed much. I was always a bit philosophical about life and stuff. You are like that or you’re not. So getting older hasn’t

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“Life is a conveyor belt and I’m getting towards the end of it.

You can’t scramble back along it. There are not too many regrets.

I’m happy with what I’ve done.”

changed that. There are lots of sadnesses. You lose friends and people you knew, like Trevor Bailey recently. My mother died last year. She was 98. I was lucky to have her around for so long but I thought she would go on forever.

“Life is a conveyor belt and I’m getting towards the end of it. You can’t scramble back along it. There are not too many regrets.

I’m happy with what I’ve done. I’ve tried to be consistent.

“The one regret I do have is, around the Kerry Packer time and before, was arguing a lot with what was going on with the game, instead of just playing it. When Packer came along everything was so well organised you went back to playing game.

“But I can’t regret any of the arguments I did have because they were supported by the facts afterwards. I would have regretted it if I hadn’t said anything.”

Like Fred Trueman before him, Snow was blackballed from tours

in the Seventies because of his attitude. His absence on the 1974-75 tour of Australia bordered on the criminal, even though he was just past his prime. “I went on that tour and did some commentary. The wickets were two or three yards quicker than they had been in 197071. The pitch in Sydney - you could hardly tell the cut bit. I would still have done it.”

Snow lived on the coast and he was faster than most, to amend T. Rex. Above all, in the memory, is the wonderful rhythm of his bowling. There is another regret, which has been forming for 20 years. “I would have liked to have done a coaching video or DVD,” he says, wistfully. “I’ve become a grumpy old man, I suppose,” he says.

But that not true.

John Snow always had the ability to be grumpy.

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New home for Sussex treasures

The county has the most extensive collection of memorabilia and cricketing artefacts outside Lord’s and now they have a home to match as Richard Barrow explains The new Sussex Cricket Museum will open at 10.30 on 12th July during the LV Championship match with Hampshire.

Rob Boddie, our archivist is planning an Indian theme to coincide with the Indian tourists’ visit to Hove in August, whilst a more formal opening will take place next year when we will be opening all of our new exhibits, the highlights of which will include an area dedicated to Matt Prior, our double Ashes winning wicketkeeper.

The new museum is located in a wonderfully large space which used to be the groundsman’s headquarters beneath the pavilion at The PROBIZ County Ground. Our plan is to embrace a fresh-looking 21st century facility incorporating state of the art technology, coupled with the traditional displays of original material and cricket artefacts.

In rough terms, the layout will consist of an office to house a selection of key reference material including Wisdens and our collection of Sussex Year Books. A secured archive area will house our more important and rare books and albums, scorecards, photographs, press cuttings, autographs and letters.

The main body of the museum will consist of the exhibition of the history of Sussex cricket with a people focussed timeline theme, covering cricket played in Sussex from the 18th century to Matt’s heroics in the Ashes 2010. It will cover the evolution of country house cricket to the development of the County Club (1839) through to the modern professional era and the second ‘Golden Age’ of Sussex cricket.

There will be a strong emphasis on participation. Indeed one section of the museum will be dedicated to interactive cricketrelated games and skills specifically aimed at kids. Finally, we intend to develop an online virtual tour of the museum linking into both our archive and our interactive displays.

There is no question we are being very ambitious in our desire to have the best cricket museum in the country.

I know, with the enthusiasm and dedication of the Trustees, secretary Jon Filby and our archivist Rob Boddie we have a team to deliver the project to fulfilment. It is critical that we develop a

regular income to sustain our annual overheads and with this in mind we have launched our new ‘Friends of SCMET’ programme.

All we ask is a minimum donation of £10 per year. In return, each year Friends will receive a minimum of four editions of “Of Sussex By The Sea”, two Sussex cricket related lectures in the Museum, an invitation to our annual lunch for the Friends of SCMET, priority opportunity to purchase SCMET limited edition publications and a programme of visits to historic cricket locations throughout Sussex and the South-East. If you would like to become a “Friend of SCMET” please contact our secretary, Jon Filby at jonfilby@blueyonder.co.uk.

SCMET secretary Jon Filby and his team are working hard to get ready for the opening of the new museum on July 12.

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SUSSEX AVERAGES 2011 Sussex batting averages

Player Mat EC Joyce 7 MW Goodwin 7 LWP Wells 7 CD Nash 7 AJ Hodd 5 Naved Arif 3 JS Gatting 3 LJ Wright 3 MJ Prior 2 Naved-ul-Hasan 6 MS Panesar 7 MH Yardy 3 BC Brown 4 JE Anyon 6 A Khan 6 WD Parnell 1

Inns 12 12 13 13 8 6 5 5 2 9 8 3 8 7 8 -

NO 1 2 2 0 3 2 0 0 0 1 5 0 0 0 3 -

Runs HS Ave 651 140 59.18 588 274* 58.80 574 174 52.18 672 120 51.69 180 67 36.00 135 100* 33.75 154 90 30.80 121 39 24.20 46 43 23.00 149 43* 18.62 47 17* 15.66 39 22 13.00 92 61 11.50 75 51 10.71 38 10* 7.60 - - -

BF 1244 1047 1178 1161 406 277 262 248 56 186 216 126 240 161 142 -

SR 52.33 56.16 48.72 57.88 44.33 48.73 58.77 48.79 82.14 80.10 21.75 30.95 38.33 46.58 26.76 -

100 2 2 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -

50 3 0 0 6 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 -

0 0 1 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 3 0 -

4s 90 72 85 92 17 11 21 18 6 14 5 3 10 10 2 -

6s 1 0 3 2 0 4 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 -

Overs 8.5 189.4 311.0 38.0 178.0 62.4 201.5 32.0 33.0 1.0 18.0

Mdns Runs Wkts 5 13 2 38 636 23 95 778 28 6 120 4 16 707 22 8 261 8 39 670 15 7 92 2 5 86 1 0 1 0 2 65 0

BBI 2/13 5/79 5/89 3/60 4/52 4/70 3/69 1/46 1/19 - -

BBM 2/13 10/161 7/134 4/120 8/156 4/70 4/117 1/46 1/19 - -

Ave 6.50 27.65 27.78 30.00 32.13 32.62 44.66 46.00 86.00 - -

Econ 1.47 3.35 2.50 3.15 3.97 4.16 3.31 2.87 2.60 1.00 3.61

SR 26.5 49.4 66.6 57.0 48.5 47.0 80.7 96.0 198.0 - -

5 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

10 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Sussex bowling averages Player Mat KO Wernars 1 Naved-ul-Hasan 6 MS Panesar 7 WD Parnell 1 JE Anyon 6 Naved Arif 3 A Khan 6 LJ Wright 3 CD Nash 7 JS Gatting 3 LWP Wells 7

Inns 1 9 10 2 10 3 10 2 5 1 4

Ct 1 0 2 0 2 0 6 0 2 1 2

SIX OF THE BEST Leading performers in the LV County Championship Most runs Marcus Trescothick (Somerset) 1047 Dale Benkenstein (Durham) 860 Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire) 787 Virun Chopra (Warwickshire) 759 Chris Nash (Sussex) 672 Ed Joyce (Sussex) 651

Most wickets Alan Richardson (Worcestershire) 39 Gary Keedy (Lancashire) 34 Boyd Rankin (Warwickshire) 31 Steve Kirby (Somerset) 31 Damien Wright (Worcestershire) 31 Adil Rashid (Yorkshire) 30

Most catches Marcus Trescothick (Somerset) 18 Daryl Mitchell (Worcestershire) 17 Rikki Clarke (Warwickshire) 16 Paul Horton (Lancashire) 16 Adam Lyth (Yorkshire) 16 Michael di Venuto (Durham) 16 Up to and including June 20

St 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Meet the Bears The lowdown on the men from Edgbaston as Warwickshire make their Championship bow at Arundel Varun Chopra Former England under-19s opener who joined the Bears from Essex in 2009. A broken hand kept him out of the side last season but he has made up for it this year with outstanding performances and in May he became the first Warwickshire batsman to score successive double hundreds in first-class games.

William Porterfield The 26-year-old opener from Londonderry joined Warwickshire from Gloucestershire in the winter and has become a regular across all formats, Has played more than 50 ODIs for Ireland and featured in their last two World Cup campaigns.

Ian Westwood Stood down as captain at the end of last season after overseeing a major improvement in their form in the second half of the summer when they avoided relegation and won the Clydesdale Bank 40.

Made his Bears’ debut in 2004.

Jim Troughton In his first season as captain.

Troughton’s career peaked in 2003 when he played six ODIs for England. Last season he only averaged 20 in the Championship but remains an important member of the Bears’ middle order.

By Bruce Talbot Naqaash Tahir

STAR MAN Chris Woakes If England’s fast-bowling resources were not so well stocked, the tall Woakes might have added a Test cap to those he won in the one-day series against Australia earlier this year. As well as being a excellent seamer, the 22-year-old is also a dangerous lower-order batsman with two first-class centuries to his name already this year.

Since taking a wicket with his second ball in first-class cricket in 2004 this talented swing bowler has struggled for consistency because of a series of injury although tree-ringed Arundel could be the sort of place where he might prosper.

Chris Metters Devon-born slow left-armer who has a reputation for giving the ball a big rip. Signed in the winter after some impressive secondteam performances and took 6-65 earlier in the season against Worcestershire.

Boyd Rankin

Darren Maddy One of the few Warwickshire players to have played at Arundel, having been part of the Leicestershire side which won here by an innings in 1999. Now 37, he has overcome a horrific facial injury and knee problems in the last two years to resume his place in the middle order.

Rikki Clarke The former Surrey all-rounder still has designs on resurrecting an England career which stalled on two Test and 20 ODI caps in 2006. After a brief spell as

Derbyshire captain he has rebuilt his career with some consistent displays across all formats for Warwickshire.

Tim Ambrose Will need little introduction to Sussex supporters, having played for the county for five years after making his debut in 2001.

Gained England honours the year after joining Warwickshire and following a lean 2010, when he averaged 13 in the Championship and seemed on the verge of quitting the county, it looks as if he has rediscovered his form.

A gentle giant of a fast bowler, the 6ft 7in Irishman first came to prominence during the 2007 World Cup when he was Ireland’s leading wicket-taker.

After an unsuccessful spell with Derbyshire he headed across the Midlands and took 27 wickets in his first seven Championship games this season.

Andrew Miller A former England under-19 player, 23-year-old Miller has emerged from two injury-ruined season to make some useful contributions to the Bears’ Championship campaign.

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Home from Home Tim Ambrose has fond memories of Arundel and

cannot wait to play there again for Championship opponents Warwickshire

By Paul Bolton Perhaps Tim Ambrose should join the West Sussex Tourist Board, such is his enthusiasm for playing for Warwickshire against his old county in the Arundel Festival this week.

Warwickshire have never played at the Castle Ground before but Ambrose, their wicketkeeper, knows what delights are in store and has been telling his team-mates all about them since the fixtures were published just before Christmas.

Ambrose has fond memories of Arundel

“We got an unlikely win in that game and got on a bit of a roll which took us to the title so it’s a place that has special memories for me.

“It’s still a place that I go back to whenever I get the chance, both to visit the ground and to play a bit of darts with Jason.

“But it’s a stunning ground and I’ve been telling the boys that when we get there they should go round the other side to have

“It’s a great privilege to be going back there and it’s a game that I’ve been looking forward to ever since the fixture list came out.” from the five seasons he spent with Sussex, particularly the 2003 match against Essex when he made 88 and 93 not out against Essex, shared two 170-plus stands with Tony Cottey and contributed to a victory that set Sussex on their way to their firstever County Championship win.

“Arundel is one of my favourite grounds, definitely my favourite out-ground,” Ambrose says. “I’ve got some very fond memories of playing there particularly 2003 when I got a couple of big scores and shared a couple of big partnerships with Tony Cottey who I was living with at the time.

“We stayed at Jason Lewry’s house, who lives just round the corner from the ground, during that match and he got ten wickets in the match. Tony got a century and a fifty so it was a good match for all of us.

a look through the gap in the trees and have a look at the view over the Downs.

“It’s a great privilege to be going back there and it’s a game that I’ve been looking forward to ever since the fixture list came out.”

Though Ambrose, 28, was born and raised in Newcastle, New South Wales, he has close links with the Arundel area.

A cousin who lives in Amberley was the linkman who helped set up trials with Sussex 11 years ago.

“I sent my CV over to my cousin who lives in Amberley and he sent it to Hampshire and Sussex,” Ambrose says.

“Hampshire said: ‘no thanks’ but Sussex invited me over for a trial. It rained for the two days but they sent me off to play for Eastbourne and some second team matches and it went from there.”

In his third season Sussex won their historic first Championship, an achievement of which Ambrose is still proud.

“There are not many from that side still playing but we keep in touch with what we are up to in and out of cricket,” he says.

“We were quite a tight-knit group anyway but everyone involved in that squad experienced something special, Sussex’s first championship, so there is a bond from that achievement that will always be there.”

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Arundel Festival 2011 Ambrose moved to Warwickshire in 2006 in pursuit of more regular first team cricket, a decision that was justified when he played 11 Tests, five one day internationals and a Twenty20 international for England three years ago.

Things did not go quite so well last year when personal

problems led to him losing form and confidence and twice being dropped, but Ambrose has been back to his best this season after a winter spent back home in Australia.

“I’ve felt good this season and that I’m getting close to what I expect from myself,” he says. “It’s been a bit tricky

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batting because I’ve been down the order, I’ve run out of partners a couple of times and we’ve had a couple of, shall we say, tricky pitches.

“But I’ve said from the start of my career it’s not always the volume of runs it’s the situations. I have been pleased this year scoring runs when we have needed them.”

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Fun time Frankie

The last player to complete the domestic first-class double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in a season, Franklyn Stephenson won friends the world over for playing combative cricket with a dazzling smile. After three happy years with Sussex the amiable man-mountain retired in 1997 to become a golf professional in his native Barbados and eventually fulfil the dream of building his own cricket ground and practice facility.

He spoke to Mark Pennell It was Hollywood fantasy at its star spangled flag-waving best as Kevin Costner - driven by the haunted whispers of former baseball legends telling him: “If you build it, they will come” constructed a ‘diamond’ amongst the fields on his farm.

On the face of it, the plotline to the 1989 movie Field of Dreams appears far fetched and a touch dewy-eyed. Yet it is the exact same dream that inspired Franklyn Stephenson, the one-time Gloucestershire, Nottinghamshire and Sussex allrounder, to build his own cricket pitch barely a six-hit from his home in Holders Hill, Barbados. It was 90 degrees in the shade when Franklyn proudly showed me his cricket ground in the making.

Taking up the story that led to the fulfilment of his dream, Franklyn said: “A friend of mine, Tim, came for some golf lessons one day and said he had this little plot of overgrown land that he’d like me to look at. He wanted me to see if there was anything I might do with it because he was told that ‘I could do anything’.

“When I first saw the area I was very excited because I could see immediately the potential of it. There was a big bank that needed taking out and bamboo was growing wild, but I could picture a playing field here and a pavilion over in the corner.

I felt it could be nice enough to have kids playing here every night and good enough to attract some touring teams.

“I knew it needed a lot of work, but Tim graciously said he’d finance the project if I’d manage it. Our hope was to have the facilities in place for county teams to come over from England, that’s been my focus, my plan, my dream if you like.

“Having spent a lot of time in England I know the guys don’t have the best weather for pre-season training and felt that Barbados could offer the ideal alternative.

“I had the idea as long ago as 1995 when I spoke to Phil Neale, who was manager at Warwickshire then, who said if the facilities were good enough then counties would come. So this is a dream come true for me and yes, that Kevin Costner film has come into my mind so many times since we started building this place.”

Though he could have been a star baseball player in his own right, Stephenson admits his secret love in sport rests with golf. After first picking up a club at the age of seven at home in Barbados, it needed the east coast links courses of Lancashire to finally inspire him to take up the game in earnest.

He said: “I played all sorts of sports as a kid cricket, soccer, chipping around the sports field with a wedge, and I was tennis champion of my area; mainly because I had a massive serve that could pin guys onto the wire fencing at the back of the court!

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“Cricket was my early passion though and I’d gone over to England for the first time in 1984 to play league cricket in Oldham and that’s when I first played golf properly.

“I returned to Barbados after that summer with two sets of golf clubs, a practice net and with the intention to work had at it, but back then golf was a very expensive game here on the island, on certain courses it still is, so I decided to stick with cricket for a while and then, once cricket was done, get so good at golf that the game actually paid me.

“I was already playing off scratch by then and represented Barbados at golf in 1986 and 1987 Caribbean Championships.

My performances were good enough to attract a sponsor which, unbeknown to me, contravened the rules. It was an honest mistake, but they took my pro status away for six months because of it.”

Riled by the decision, Stephenson contacted the European branch of the Professional Golfers Association, flew to their headquarters at the Belfry near Birmingham, formulated a

batting and as I ran in Willey backed away all of a sudden.

The strapping had come loose and was flapping around under my shirt and jumper. I pulled it all off, gave it to the umpire, carried on bowling and took five wickets.

“The game was never dead for me. There was always something to get out of a match, which was the beauty of being an all-rounder I guess.”

As for his three summers in Hove, where he was twice named cricketer of the year by the Sussex branch of the Cricket Society, Stephenson added: “It was always so dry down on the south coast that it seemed like the flattest pitch in England, as a consequence, we had a problem getting positive results there.

“I could never get between Norman Giffford and Alan Wells and get them to try and open up the home games. We beat Surrey at The Oval inside two days when they had seven batters in the top 20 of the averages. The pitch there had some life and a little movement.

“As a fast bowler you’re always going to be hampered by injury but thinking about it now I think I did fantastically well to stay on the park as long as I did.” constitution and returned home to found the PGA of Barbados.

He added: “From 1988 I had my PGAB playing card and travelled around the world playing cricket and golf. Then, when cricket was over for me, I returned home and took up a job as resident professional at Sandy Lane.

“I don’t earn a fortune, but I love my golf and it is a very relaxing way of life.”

Banned from Test cricket after taking part in rebel tours to South Africa in the early 1980s, Stephenson reserved his best for the county arena and for Nottinghamshire in particular - he achieved the double for the east Midlands’ side in 1988.

However, he also looks back fondly on his three seasons at Hove, and playing through the pain barrier for Sussex.

“As a fast bowler you’re always going to be hampered by injury but thinking about it now I think I did fantastically well to stay on the park as long as I did,” said Stephenson, the undisputed king of the slower ball.

“I think only Courtney Walsh could match me in that regard, we both found a way of bowling through it and staying out there through thick and thin.

“I remember a game against Leicestershire when I had to strap up my right shoulder to bowl. David Gower and Peter Willey were

“Then we went to Northampton and beat them in two days when Allan Lamb told his team-mates that he reckoned I was trying to kill him. Later on, we beat Leicestershire in two days at Grace Road as well.

“I turned to the management at Sussex and said this is what happens if we play on wickets with a bit of life and bounce, but Alan (Wells) didn’t want that. He wanted flat pitches at Hove and I felt that held us back from winning things.

“The highlight was beating the West Indies inside two days and half-a-session, but we didn’t realise all that we should as a team. I still enjoyed my time there though, we bought youngsters through like James Kirtley and Danny Law and I got on really well with Peter Moores.

“I can’t say I was big mates with David Smith though, there was a clash of two strong minds if ever there was one, and there were times when people had to get between us but, when I reflect on it, I played some of my best cricket there.”

In this era of covered pitches, and Twenty20 overkill it seems unlikely that any cricketer will ever emulate Stephenson’s achievement of completing the first-class double. Maybe that’s why his smile remains as broad as ever.

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Arundel – not just a cricket ground

For many Sussex supporters this week’s festival is the highlight of the summer and brings back many memories – not just for what happens out in the middle

By John Barnett Arundel Castle cricket ground is generally acknowledged as one of the most beautiful in the country, but for me, and I would like to think for many Sussex supporters as well, it goes a lot further than that.

Not only is the club taking cricket further into West Sussex but I am sure that for all regulars at Hove it provides a real highlight of the season. Being my nearest home venue, it is now the first fixture I look for.

It has been a happy hunting ground over the last 10 years with six Championship wins and just one defeat, but there were mixed results before that and in limited overs cricket too.

My first trip in 1994 was to see a Sunday League victory over Middlesex inspired by a century from Alan Wells - amazingly his only one of the season - but my first taste of four-day action was not quite as successful as Chris Cairns enjoyed a match haul of 15 wickets to demolish Sussex inside three days for Nottinghamshire.

The visit of Yorkshire in 2002 saw an ultimately tense encounter, one which Sussex had looked to be in control of at halfway.

This match was part of the spell which was arguably Matt Prior’s breakthrough as his 85 in the first innings represented a third successive career-best.

My abiding memory is of those trademark cuts and square drives despatching a quality bowling attack in glorious sunshine. In the end, though, after Darren Lehmann’s imperious 216 had changed the match, we were grateful to a Yorkshireman for saving the day, as coach Mark Robinson defied his former county in his only Championship appearance of the season with Prior unbeaten on 70 at the other end as our last wicket pair hung on.

A year later saw a crucial victory en route to a first championship as the diminutive pairing of Tony Cottey and Tim Ambrose twice produced century stands, the second to all but seal victory in a run chase after tea on the final day after they had come together at 32-3 against Essex.

Lehmann would have enjoyed his side’s next visit in 2006, but only on a personal note as his undefeated 130 - featuring

numerous sweeps of Mushtaq Ahmed into or over the members’ tent - came towards the end of a crushing innings victory for the hosts. Even he was upstaged by Murray Goodwin’s double century in that match.

The following year saw the first of three consecutive meetings with near rivals Hampshire, and the added spice of watching Shane Warne. However, he was overshadowed completely by Mushy in the first game as Warne will probably be best remembered for allowing Australian team-mate Stuart Clark no slips as he opened the bowling in the second innings, positioning three fielders at mid-wicket for Dimitri Mascarenhas to bowl half-trackers, and being seen eating a bowl of chips for his lunch….

Goodwin maintained his great from at the venue with 99, but produced something really special the following season as his 184, together with a maiden first-class hundred from Carl Hopkinson, repaired the early wreckage of 25-4 and ultimately led to a ten-wicket triumph.

The notable incidents have not just been restricted to the field of play. As if being dismissed for barely three figures against Gloucestershire was not bad enough on day one in 2004, the near gale force conditions not only made batting a tricky task but even commentating as BBC Sussex’s John Lees was struck by a piece of the scoreboard that had been blown loose.

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Spin when you’re winning

Arundel used to be heaven for the fast men but in recent years spin has played an increasingly important role

By Bruce Talbot Chris Cairns once took 15 wickets at Arundel and many of Jason Lewry’s 600-plus victims for Sussex were snared in the shadow of the famous castle.

With its arboreal surroundings Arundel may be regarded as perfect for swing bowlers but in recent years it has become a haven for the spinners too.

In the last five Championship games 58 of the wickets have fallen to the twirlers. In the 2007 fixture against Hampshire, when Mushtaq Ahmed lined up against Shane Warne in the last of their domestic duels, 18 wickets were taken with spin, 14 of them by the leggies. Mushy got nine of them and Warne five as Sussex won comfortably on

What made Monty’s performance even more remarkable was that it came after he had spent most of the previous month not involved in first-team cricket. their way to another Championship.

Both have departed the county scene but spin is still king at Arundel. Last year, as Sussex steamrollered Gloucestershire in three days, there were 16 wickets for spinners.

That game marked the coming of age in Sussex colours of Monty Panesar, who took his first five-wicket haul for the county. He finished with match figures of 8 for 114 while Ollie Rayner backed him up with 3 for 24 in the second innings with his off breaks.

Gloucestershire’s slow left-armer Vikram Bannerjee enjoyed himself too. His figures of

Monty in spin action

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What made Monty’s performance even more remarkable was that it came after he had spent most of the previous month not involved in first-team cricket.

Not selected for Sussex’s Twenty20 campaign, he had to be content with secondteam 50 overs matches and a handful of Sussex League games for Bexhill, where he batted at No.3 and was allowed to bowl as many overs as he wanted.

The standard may have been lower, but being able to maintain the rhythm of bowling lots of overs, which spinners love, clearly helped when he returned to the side and Arundel clearly holds good memories for the 29-year-old.

“Before Arundel I’d had a good month. I enjoyed connecting with club cricket again at Bexhill. I used to play for Luton Town Indians and I knew what was expected of me,” he said.

“So I came into Arundel having played quite a bit. It is always nice to bowl a lot of

overs and rediscover your rhythm and at Arundel it was great to be able to do that in both innings.”

His second-innings five-for was his first since September 2008 and included four wickets in five overs as Gloucestershire’s second innings went into steep decline.

It wasn’t a pitch which turned excessively - Monty had to bowl 31 overs in the first innings to collect three wickets – but it was dry and a little two-paced.

“The pitch at Arundel tends to be a bit spongy,” said Monty. “Sometimes the ball can stick in the wicket a bit which can put doubt in batsmen’s minds. But you are always going to get runs here and entertaining cricket because the outfield is usually very fast.”

A month ago, after the driest spring on record, the Arundel outfield was a light brown colour. It has greened up in recent weeks after the drought was replaced by heavy downpours but whatever the conditions this is now a ground Sussex expect to do well on.

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in club cricket this time. He was chosen for the Twenty20 team after some consistent performance in early-season Pro40 matches and justified his selection with seven wickets in Sussex’s first six games at an excellent economy rate of under seven an over.

Rayner too can expect to be involved. He spent the first two months of the season on loan with Middlesex, where he scored a brace of half-centuries and bowled 83 overs in four games.

“It was important for me to get some cricket under my belt,” said Rayner. “I made a lot of friends among the boys at Lord’s but Sussex is my home and I’m looking to push on now. We’ve got Arundel this week and Horsham coming up where we usually play two spinners and hopefully I’ll get my chance.” Rayner took seven of the eight wickets here against Hampshire in 2008 and enjoys bowling at Arundel.

Spin or seam, Arundel will again provide some fascinating cricket over the next few days.

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Made In Sussex On April 11, 1973 Sussex and Barbados opening batsman Geoff Greenidge set an unwanted record by becoming the last white, Caribbean-born player to appear for the West Indies - some 38 years on the softly-spoken Bajan is still hoping to see an end to the trend. He spoke about West Indies’ cricket and his eight seasons with The Martlets to Mark Pennell Geoff Greenidge gets to enjoy the best view in the ground whenever cricket is played at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown.

As a former Test player he merits a seat right behind the arm in the CLOBI corporate hospitality box on the top tier of the 3Ws Stand.

As a Cricket Legend of Barbados inductee, the 63-year-old appears right at home sipping a rum and coke, sharing banter with former team-mates and casting an eye over proceedings.

It all seems a million miles away from a blustery spring day in Hove, yet Greenidge recalls his time on the south coast fondly, and with a smile accentuated by his Barbados tan.

“My move to play for Sussex all came about through Jim Parks,” he recalled. “England were over in Bridgetown in early 1968 and Jim was keeping wicket.

“I opened the innings for Barbados against the MCC, as they were then, and he obviously liked what he saw. Jim and a couple of Sussex committee men later approached me and asked if I’d like to play county cricket. I decided I’d love to give it a go, it would be a new experience and, as it turned out, they were a wonderful club to play for, real friendly.

“The adjustment the first week or so was incredible, it was much, much colder than I’d imagined but the ball did so much more and I struggled a bit that first season. The travelling and the sheer number of matches took me aback, it was a real learning experience, but the players made me feel really welcome.

“Toward the end of that first summer I spent a lot of time in the indoor school with Les Lenham just trying to change my technique to suit the English conditions and after that, things went pretty good.

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“The one game for Sussex that really stood out for me was our five-wicket win over the Australians at Hove in 1972. I scored 99 in the first innings but followed it up with 125 not out. It was the third time I’d been out on 99, but I made up for it by helping us to beat the tourists. It was a great day, but an even better evening.

“They were good people at Sussex. The likes of Peter Graves, John Snow, Antony and Mike Buss, Roger Prideaux, Tony Greig and Mike Griffiths, they were all great to be around. Peter and I became very close friends.

“We came close to winning the Gillette Cup, but it proved a big disappointment to lose to Gloucestershire at Lord’s. I scored 70-odd against Mike Procter steaming in. We had a good start but our middle-order fell away. To this day I still day dream about the what-ifs.

“The one game for Sussex that really stood out for me was our five-wicket win over the Australians at Hove in 1972.

I scored 99 in the first innings but followed it up with 125 not out.”

“Both my children, Steven and Amanda, were born in England and we toyed with the idea of making Sussex our home, but my dad wanted me to play a bigger role in our family business Greenidge Inc. - a wholesale plumbing and electrical distributors in Barbados – I’m still working for the firm to this day, more of a figurehead now though as my son is the No1.”

During his time with Sussex Greenidge was called up by the West Indies’ selectors and was rightly proud to have played alongside some of his nation’s greats. It still irks, however, that he was cast aside after five appearances and never given an opportunity to play on their tour to England in 1973.

“I’d played all three Tests of the home series against Australia in ‘72/73 and they were going to the UK next up,” added Greenidge, in his soft Bajan drawl.

“I hoped I’d just done enough to get in the touring party, but went back to play for Sussex after being left out. Oddly enough, Lawrence Rowe picked up an injury and went home early, and again, I hoped I’d get the call as I was actually over in England by then.

“But they (the selectors) called up Ron Headley from Worcestershire instead. I knew then my Test days were probably over. It was very upsetting and in some ways I lost a bit of an edge from my game after Recalling happier memories of his top-flight appearances, Greenidge said: “My first Test cap was in Guyana against New Zealand. I’d made some runs in the lead up and had an inkling I might be in with a chance. That still didn’t prepare me for when I actually got the call from the selectors though, it was still a wonderful surprise and a great honour to be called up.

“I went out to Guyana and felt very nervous, but Sir Garfield, he was plain old Gary then of course, put me at ease straight away. He was a great captain and has always been a good man and a friend to me.

“When we arrived at Bourda for the game the ground was packed and we decided to bat first. I walked out with Roy Fredericks, he was the senior pro of course, and the ovation was remarkable.

“Roy was a great batsman. He was light on his feet and played the ball very late, which made him good against the quicks. He was such a nice person and very helpful to the youngsters coming into the side like me.

“Their attack was useful, but not outstanding, and it turned out to be quite a good series. In that first game I managed to get into line for my first ball, work it away and get off the mark straight away, which helped settle the nerves a great deal.

“It was a good wicket and a high-scoring game. I got a half-century and 30-odd not out second time around and I remember Glenn Turner getting a very big score for them [259] as it ended up in a draw.”

Greenidge posted 38 and 21 in his second Test appearance, another hard fought draw in Port-of-Spain, and felt he had done enough to win selection for the squad to take on the Australian touring team in February 1973. It was, he recalled, a very different proposition to taking on the Kiwi attack.

“This was a totally different ball game altogether,” said Geoff. “We pitched up at Sabina Park and they had Max Walker and Jeff Hammond and this other wiry ‘fella’ called Dennis Lillee, who had this enormous great run-up. Some say it’s an old housewives’ tale, but he truly was pushing off from the sightscreen. It was quite a sight and an amazing experience to face up to.

“They got a decent score on the board, 400-odd, then, after about three overs I got a duck in my only innings of the game. Oddly enough though, it was Walker who got me out and who gave us most trouble as a team. He was deceptively quick off a much shorter run-up than Lillee, but he also got the ball to swing.”

Arundel Festival 2011 Back on his home island for the second Test of that series at Bridgetown, Greenidge mustered nine and 10 not out, in another creditable draw for the West Indies against an Aussie side that boasted the Chappell brother, Keith Stackpole, Ian Redpath and Rod Marsh in their number.

“They were an impressive outfit in terms of their cricket ability, but talk about sledging - they were the masters of it!” said Greenidge with a wry smile.

“Most of what they hurled at you was unprintable, but that was all part and parcel of the game and I quickly had to get used to it. I soon learned it was best not to take them on at it too. But to be fair to them, we all shared a beer at the end of the day. ” Geoff and the West Indies returned to Guyana for the third and final rubber of the series, which also proved to be his final appearance for the Test side. He chalked up 22 and 24 as the hosts went down by 10 wickets to lose the series. The hurt of defeat and being cast aside by the selectors lingers to this day.

And as for the record he so wants to be rid of, Geoff concludes: “The white guys over here have genuine ability, but many of them leave the Caribbean to study in the States where they take up squash, golf or soccer, they don’t seem to follow up on their cricket careers.

“It’s disappointing because it’s a record I’d really like to lose. It’s not a stigma as such, but it would be a big boost for the white lads at schools all over the islands to see a white player back in the West Indies’ team. I hope it happens for them, more than for me.”

Geoff Greenidge faced a young Dennis Lillee during his brief Test career in the early 1970s Inset: Geoff pictured in Barbados earlier this year.

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SUSSEX RESULTS & FIXTURES 2011 Results

LV=CC Lancashire A L Inns & 55 runs LV=CC Durham A W 2 wkts CB40 Lancashire H Drawn CB40 Derbyshire A L 6 wkts CB40 Netherlands H W 5 wkts LV=CC Hampshire A Drawn CB40 Middlesex H W 9 wkts LV=CC Nottinghamshire H W 9 wkts

CB40 Derbyshire H W 8 wkts LV=CC Somerset H W 8 wkts CB40 Kent A W 19 runs UNI Oxford MCCU A Drawn LV=CC Yorkshire H Drawn t20 Essex H W 32 runs t20 Gloucestershire A W 7 wkts t20 Essex A W 17 runs

t20 t20 t20 t20

Middlesex H L 5 wkts Somerset H W 4 wkts Middlesex A W 49 runs Kent No result

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