Horsham Cricket Festival Brochure 2013

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Wednesday May 22 - Saturday 25: LV County Championship SUSSEX v SOMERSET Sunday May 26: Yorkshire Bank 40 SUSSEX SHARKS v KENT SPITFIRES

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A WARM WELCOME TO THE 2013 HORSHAM FESTIVAL Contents Festival weeks are an integral part of the Sussex cricket summer and we are fortunate in the county to be able to enjoy two of the best.

At Horsham this year we are delighted to welcome Somerset, whom we meet in the LV County Championship, followed on Sunday by the Kent Spitfires in the last ever 40 overs game at Cricketfield Road.

Given the number of talented cricketers on display over the five days, entertainment on the field is guaranteed but we hope you find plenty to enjoy in these pages as well.

We feature five Sussex players including two – Chris Nash and Ben Brown – who know this ground well having played their club cricket for Horsham. Luke Wells and Chris Jordan, who have had such good starts to the summer, are also profiled along with recent recruit Andy Miller.

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Horsham stages international cricket later this summer when some of the best part-time players from Europe gather hoping to help their country through to the next stage of qualifying in the ICC T20 World Cup. Martin Read looks ahead to what’s in store.

Back in 1926, on this very ground, George Cox produced the best match bowling performance in Sussex history when he took 17 Warwickshire wickets – at the age of 52. We tell the story of this remarkable game while bringing the story of the Festival right up to date with a look at both of this year’s opponents.

We also remember Christopher Martin-Jenkins, who loved nothing better than watching and playing cricket on this handsome ground.

Whatever happens, enjoy this brochure and what we hope will be five memorable days of cricket in the summer sunshine – with two Sussex victories at the end of it!

5: Welcome to Horsham from Zac Toumazi 6-7: Chris Nash 9: Horsham records 10-11: Ben Brown 13: Last year’s Festival highlights 14-15: Andrew Miller 17: The Aussies Are Coming!

19: Chris Jordan 20-24: Sussex Gold: The Guvnor’s Game 30-33: Welcoming Europe’s finest 35: Arundel Festival preview 37: Luke Wells feature

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Welcome to Horsham

By Zac Toumazi I would like to welcome you to the first of our two out-ground festivals of 2013.

I make no secret of the fact that I am a huge supporter of festival cricket and all it stands for. It is essential that we take great cricket to the broader community and give them an opportunity to watch their county side compete at the highest level. In these tough economic times, festival cricket only survives on the generosity of its sponsors, the hard work and commitment of staff and volunteers and most importantly, those that hand over their hard earned money and come and watch, so a huge thank you one and all.

which raises the curtain on the festival, we will be welcoming Kent on Sunday for the Yorkshire Bank 40 over match so there really is something to suit all tastes. This will be the last time we will be playing 40 over cricket at Horsham as the format changes to 50 overs in 2014, so you will be able to boast that you were there.

Speaking of tastes, I am very much looking forward to experiencing the Horsham ladies cake marquee on the Sunday of which I have heard so much about. I have promised Mrs T that I will do what I can to find a low calorie option! I may also stop by the famous beer tent and see what is on offer!

This will be the last time we will be playing 40 over cricket at Horsham as the format changes to 50 overs in 2014, so you will be able to boast that you were there.

I am writing this shortly after we drew with champions Warwickshire at Hove at the start of the month to maintain our unbeaten start to the Championship campaign.

This will be my first visit to the Horsham Festival and I intended to enjoy every second of it. Apart from the LV Championship match against Somerset

I look forward to seeing you over the five days when we can all take time out of our busy lives to enjoy our wonderful game, all it stands for in a lovely setting and, of course, a piece of cake!

With kind regards Zac Toumazi, Chief Executive, Sussex Cricket

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Finding the next level Nick Compton’s rise from the county ranks to England cricketer is an inspiration for our own Chris Nash.

You’re a better than average county opening batsman who has been on England’s radar for a while without making a breakthrough at the highest level. You are heading towards your 30s, know your own game inside out and feel the most productive years of your career lie ahead of you.

We’re talking about Sussex’s Chris Nash but it’s a description that could easily have applied to Somerset’s Nick Compton 12 months ago. Fast forward a year and Compton is preparing to play in the second Test against New Zealand next week, having enjoyed a spectacular 2012 when 1,600 county runs propelled him into the national

Horsham for this week’s festival.

“I feel I have been consistent for three or four years but I probably need a 1,600 runs season. If I want an inspiration then what about Compo? He wasn’t fast-tracked into the Test team. He earned the right to play for England with consistent runs in county cricket last season and that’s what I want to do.”

In 2009 Nash had his most productive season to date with 1,321 first-class runs. It is possible to scale the heights Compton did, and remember he made his runs during one of the worst summers in living memory. Trying to scale those heights brings

trying to establish yourself at the start of your career. But I feel this is my prime. I want to get my first-class average above 40 (it is currently 38), score more one-day hundreds and try and maintain my form in t20 cricket.”

On the home front, Nash has added responsibility as Ed Joyce’s permanent vice-captain. Ed’s Ireland commitments mean Nash will be in charge for at least three Championship games later in the summer as well as some one-day cricket. With that, opening in all three formats and England ambitions is there a danger he’s got too much on his plate? He disagrees.

“We should have finished second last year and I definitely feel we have got a chance this season while in one-day cricket I think we should be regarded as potential trophy winners” side before back-to-back centuries against the Kiwis earlier this year announced his arrival as an international cricketer.

Compton’s rise from the county ranks is an inspiration not only to our vice-captain but other players around the country who feel, rightly or wrongly, that the England set-up has become something of a closed shop in recent years.

“I am 29 and think I am at my peak and more than anything I would love to play for my country,” says Nash, who will be back on familiar territory at

added pressure but, according to Nash, not any less than when he was trying to establish himself in the Sussex side a few years ago.

He said: “When I was 22 or 23 I thought that if I’m still playing at 30 I would be nice and relaxed and scoring loads of runs but there is just as much pressure now as there was when I first got into the team.

“These days other players perhaps look to me to score big runs and lead by example as a senior player and that brings just as much pressure as

“You kind of have to do things to rejuvenate your career and vice-captaincy has come at the right time. This is an opportunity for me to have a bigger input in the side and with that I hope I can lead by example by scoring heavily. It has refreshed me not burdened me.”

In both one-day competitions Nash is an automatic pick but it frustrates him that he hasn’t scored more centuries in the longer format, although with experience (he has now played 78 List A games) he hopes will come the big scores.

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“Early in my career I tried to score too quickly so I took too many risks,” he says. “In the last three years I have calmed down a bit and feel I am going in the right direction. I have scored the volume of runs but not necessarily enough hundreds. A couple of years ago I had a really good season because I was looking to bat through the innings and I got my tempo right. That is the key for me.

“I have been used in a role down the order in Twenty20 when I come in for the last three or four overs and try and score quickly. It is a skill I have got but it’s not one I would necessarily like to have to use all the time. Luke Wright and myself were a really good opening partnership last year and one we both enjoyed.

“We do take it seriously because there is an expectation for us to do well but sometimes it becomes a hit-off where neither us want to play second fiddle to the other.

So we try and keep up with each other and match each other shot for shot, we have a laugh too.”

There is no Twenty20 at Cricketfield Road this year but the ground will stage its final 40 over tussle against Kent after a keenly-anticipated Championship game with Somerset.

Horsham kick-started Sussex’s Championship challenge last season with that breathless win over Surrey. A solid start to 2013 in what looks like a very open title race has given rise to optimism among our supporters that they might be able to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their first Championship with another tilt at the silverware.

“We should have finished second last year and I definitely feel we have got a chance

Chris has had to adopt to different roles in one-day cricket but he remains a key member of the side in 40 and 20 over formats

“For the last few years we have been in all three competitions deep into the season so we must be doing something right.” this season while in one-day cricket I think we should be regarded as potential trophy winners,” agrees Nash. “We haven’t got over the line in semi-finals and quarter-finals in the last few years and that is something we have talked about.

“A couple of times we have been guilty perhaps of looking too far ahead when we haven’t even got to the final. It is an issue we are addressing but on the flip side it’s a positive that we are discussing why we aren’t getting into semi-finals to finals more regularly. For the last few years we have been in all three competitions deep into the season so we must be doing something right.”

Words: Bruce Talbot

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RECORDS AT HORSHAM County Championship matches Highest totals

Most wickets in a match

619-7 dec: Sussex v Nottinghamshire 2003 600-6 dec: Warwickshire v Sussex 2004 593: Derbyshire v Sussex 1998

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Lowest totals 35: Sussex v Glamorgan 1946 51: Leicestershire v Sussex 1924 57: Worcestershire v Sussex 1924 Highest individual scores 262* Ian Bell, Warwickshire v Sussex 2004 224 Phil Mead, Hampshire v Sussex 1921 193 Chris Adams, Sussex v Durham 2007 183 Ed Joyce, Sussex v Nottinghamshire 2009 179 Dennis Brookes, Northamptonshire v Sussex 1948 176 Ted Bowley, Sussex v Warwickshire 1925 175* Jim Parks, Sussex v Cambridge University 1955 174* David Sheppard, Sussex v Glamorgan 1953 There have been a total of 100 first-class hundreds scored at Horsham Highest partnership for each wicket 294 (1st): Ed Joyce and Chris Nash, Sussex v Derbyshire, 2010 289 (7th): Ian Bell and Tony Frost, Warwickshire v Sussex 2004 254 (4th): Kim Barnett and Matt Cassar, Derbyshire v Sussex 1998 243 (3rd): Alec Stewart and Graham Thorpe, Surrey v Sussex 1995 187 (2nd): Alan Green and Paul Parker, Sussex v Surrey 1985

17-106: George Cox, Sussex v Warwickshire 1926 13-68: Maurice Tate, Sussex v Nottinghamshire 1923 12-58: Eddie Hemmings, Sussex v Leicestershire, 1993 12-114: Maurice Tate, Sussex v Worcestershire, 1924 12-133: George Tribe, Northamptonshire v Sussex, 1952 Best bowling in an innings 9-35: Vince Broderick, Northamptonshire v Sussex, 1948 9-50: George Cox, Sussex v Warwickshire 1926 8-18: Maurice Tate, Sussex v Worcestershire, 1924 8-30: Maurice Tate, Sussex v Glamorgan 1923 8-56: George Cox, Sussex v Warwickshire, 1926 8-68: Maurice Tate, Sussex v Kent 1927

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Feeling at home Ben Brown returns to familiar ground this week but it’s not just at Horsham where he now feels comfortable. By Bruce Talbot.

Playing on your home ground is always a special moment for a player but it’s not just at Horsham where Sussex wicketkeeper Ben Brown now feels comfortable in his surroundings.

Brown finally established himself as first choice last season and with his rival Andy Hodd now at Yorkshire he has every right to feel as secure in his place as he has ever done.

Last season, the 24-year-old played in 14 Championship games, scored more than 500 runs and took 38 catches. They are decent stats but Brown believes he is capable of improving them especially now he doesn’t have to worry if his place in the team is secure.

“It does feel different with Hoddy at a different club,” he said. “It made a nice change in preseason not to have the distraction of worrying about my place. I was able to concentrate on improving my own game, playing how I want and preparing as well as I can for batting or keeping.”

Even Brown admits that his former rival was superior with the gloves but that’s not to say he isn’t bad – although he acknowledges he needs to improve keeping against spin. Where he scores over Hodd is with the bat.

“With my keeping I think it’s about fine-tuning now,” he said. “I was really happy with the way I kept last season, particularly against Monty Panesar.

“When he gets it to spin quickly out of the rough it is tough but that is an area of my game I felt improved. I worked a lot with Monty last season and I think it paid off.

“Ask any keeper. Keeping to spin is probably the hardest challenge you face, especially with someone like Monty who bowls so quickly and I think it is harder keeping to him than almost any spinner in county cricket.

“Keeping is as hard a skill to master as batting and bowling. Just ask Matt Prior. Your form and confidence with the gloves goes up and down just like it does with the bat. My aim is to get to the sort of level of consistency that Matt has achieved for England. I certainly feel I have come a long way in the last 18 months and it’s now about reaching the next level.”

Brown will have to accede to Prior when he is available for county duty this season, although Brown might easily keep his place behind the stumps and allow Prior to play as a batsman. Prior has never forgotten his roots and Brown says “he is always generous with his time when he’s around.”

Interestingly though, he does most of his one-toone coaching with Carl Hopkinson.

“Hoppo is really driven as a coach and has learned a lot about keeping, to find a way of working with me,” said Brown. “He has done a lot of sessions with Matt’s coach Bruce French – he’s almost

Ben Brown on his way to 52 against Somerset at Taunton, one of five halfcenturies he scored last season become a disciple of his - so he can pass on advice to me.

“But you are always learning. I also talk to other keepers on the circuit. In pre-season I had a chat with Adam Wheater, who has just signed for Hampshire and wanted to know specifically about keeping at Hove. Last year I remember talking for a long time to Chris Read, a guy who has seen it and done it. You can’t buy that sort of experience and

HorSHAM Festival 2013 it’s great if you can tap into it. I’m 25 now and I know what works for me the job as keeper and batter so it’s all about filtering all that information and making myself better.”

It is a good time to be keeping wicket for Sussex.

As Prior, Hodd and others will attest keeping at Hove for years was difficult because of the desperately slow pitches. Since the square was re-laid the transformation has been remarkable.

Instead of taking the ball around his ankles Brown is often seen at full stretch as the fast men relish the extra pace and bounce.

Brown added: “In the early years of my career Hove was the hardest place to keep but the relaid wickets are nice to keep on. I took six catches in the Middlesex game last year which equalled the county record and I couldn’t have done that on some of our old pitches.”

Because of his key role Ed Joyce will often call upon Brown now for some advice during a game.

Brown even captained the side a couple of times during the pre-season tour to Dubai and says he enjoys the extra responsibility.

Brown is not sure if he can now be regarded as a senior member of the dressing room coterie but he is certainly a different, more confident and mature cricketer to the player who scored his maiden Championship hundred at Cricketfield Road three years ago when four Sussex players reached three figures in the same game against Derbyshire.

“That was a great moment for me,” he recalls. “I played a lot of my early cricket here at Horsham and when the sun’s shining there aren’t too many better places to play. It’s a quick-scoring ground and as a side we have done well here in recent years. Let’s hope it continues this week.”

Ben Brown keeping wicket to Monty Panesar in last season’s home game against Somerset at Hove. The batsman is Marcus Trescothick

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Just in time…

Sussex kick-started their Championship campaign at Horsham a year ago, although they left it late against old rivals Surrey There were less than 15 minutes to go when Sussex wrapped up a ten-wicket victory over Surrey in last year’s Festival game here at Horsham.

What a crucial victory it proved to be though.

Sussex had been beaten heavily in their two previous matches but this win, secured when Jimmy Anyon spectacularly sent Rory HamiltonBrown’s off stump for a walk, changed the direction of the season. They won three out of the next six – all at home – and might have challenged Warwickshire for the title if the rain at Taunton had not thwarted their victory charge in late August.

In such a soggy summer Horsham copped its fair share and a green-tinged pitch made Mike Yardy’s decision to put Surrey in a no-brainer. Anyon and Steve Magoffin bowled unchanged until 12.43pm

The weather – and Sussex’s fortunes – improved markedly on Day Three. Luke Wells made his second hundred of the season against Surrey and received fantastic support from the lower order and tail. The last four batsmen all passed 30, including Monty Panesar who added 80 for the tenth wicket with Anyon, who scored his third fifty for the county.

Sussex had a lead of 227 but at lunch on the final day Surrey trailed by 98 and had only lost three wickets. Panesar bogged down their strokeplayers in the afternoon during a superb spell that included Mark Ramprakash in the final first-class game of his illustrious career.

Surrey subsided to 197 for 8 but Hamilton-Brown looked like defying his former county until Anyon

The weather – and Sussex’s fortunes – improved markedly on Day Three. Luke Wells made his second hundred of the season against Surrey and received fantastic support from the lower order and tail. on the first day and took four wickets each as Surrey were bowled out for 124.

Sussex reached 81 for 2 by stumps but Surrey fought back in the brief spell of play that was possible on the second day before it poured down, Stuart Meaker taking three of the four wickets to fall in six overs as Sussex slumped to 96 for 6.

returned with the new ball and Sussex needed just 11 balls to knock off their target of 22.

There was a poignant post-script to this game which was the last played by Surrey batsman Tom Maynard, who died in tragic circumstances nine days later.

That’s out! James Anyon bowls Rory HamiltonBrown at Horsham a year ago and Sussex are on their way to a ten-wicket victory The final day was played in glorious sunshine but the good weather didn’t last. The CB40 match against Derbyshire was abandoned with Sussex in some trouble on 111 for 5 from 24 overs.

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It’s Miller time Andrew Miller is desperate to make the most of the chance to revive his career with Sussex His bowling action has been compared to Mark Robinson and like Sussex’s Professional Cricket Manager, Andrew Miller is hoping his move to Hove can be a case of third time lucky.

Robbo enjoyed his best days as a player when he joined Sussex in 1997, helping them win promotion to Division One four years later having previously played for Northamptonshire and Yorkshire.

Miller, too, had spells with a midlands county (Warwickshire) and a northern one (Lancashire) and now, like Robinson and countless players in the intervening 16 years, he hopes a move to Hove can revitalise his career.

Lancashire (like Jimmy Anyon he hails from Preston) at the age of 13 and in 2005 his stock rose further with seven appearances for England U-19s. But Lancashire’s seam-bowling resources were well stocked at the time and Miller moved down the M6 in 2008.

He spent five seasons at Edgbaston and occasionally threatened to make a breakthrough.

In 2010 he took five wickets against Lancashire – the best return of his career – and was a regular in the first half of the 2011 season. Thereafter, though, opportunities became limited as the likes of Chris Woakes, Keith Barker and Boyd Rankin moved above him in the pecking order. After an

“a training week turned into the Port Elizabeth camp in February New start: Andrew Miller then turned into the Dubai pre-season trip and then a year’s made the comparison with his former team-mate’s contract. I was ecstatic when I was told I had a deal.” bowling action while Anyon, whose own career He said: “Sussex has had a reputation for a few years now as a place where players have gone and really re-launched their careers and I can see why having been here now for a few months. The environment created by the coaching staff and the people behind the scenes is really conducive to that.”

Miller was playing Academy cricket for his native

exclusive diet of 2nd XI cricket last summer it was no surprise when Warwickshire released him except to the player himself.

A lot of players would have admitted their careers, as a professional at least, were over but at 25 Miller clearly felt his best years were ahead, rather than behind him. Tim Ambrose, who kept to Robinson many times during his Sussex career,

has been revitalised since he left Warwickshire, also encouraged him to give Sussex a call.

“It was disappointing to be released and I didn’t expect it,” admitted Miller. “I felt I still had something to prove in the game. A lot of players get released and just accept it but I dusted myself down and got going again. All I needed was a foot in the door somewhere and fortunately I got it here at Sussex.

HorSHAM Festival 2013 “Tim and Jimmy put a good word in for me but initially I just came down after Christmas to train.

But a training week turned into the Port Elizabeth camp in February then turned into the Dubai pre-season trip and then a year’s contract. I was ecstatic when I was told I had a deal.”

The reports on Miller from the other players who wintered in PE got back to Robinson. “It was fantastic,” said Miller. “I could bowl off my full run-up at guys like Mike Yardy and Rory HamiltonBrown and I think I turned a few heads. I knew then I was on the right path.”

Like Robinson and to a certain extent Steve Magoffin, whom he regularly consults about the intricacies of bowling, Miller concentrates on a metronomic line and length. On his debut it wasn’t long before Matt Prior decided to stand up to him but that was because of the lack of pace in the pitch rather than Miller’s ability.

Sussex’s fast-bowling resources are as well stocked as at any time in the last 20 years. Miller made his debut against his former club Warwickshire at the start of the month when Magoffin pulled out with a knee injury. Meanwhile, just up the road at Blackstone, Amjad Khan was beginning his rehabilitation after winter knee surgery in the second XI. But there can always be room for a horses-forcourses seamer and Miller, like Robinson before him, and his mentor Tim Munton, fits the bill.

“I owe Tim a lot,” said Miller. “He worked with me at Warwickshire because we had similar bowling styles and whenever I took a five-for or did something there would always be a bottle of champagne waiting for me from him.

“Tim Ambrose told me I was similar to Robbo – the ability to bowl that nagging length and

since I have joined the staff Steve (Magoffin) has really helped me. We have done quite a bit of work together because again we are fairly similar bowlers. I just try and pick their brains because I know it will make me a better player, but the whole squad has been so welcoming and I felt part of the bowling unit straight away.

“I’m trying not to think too far ahead. I got caught up in that in the past and it added extra pressure. If I am bowling to the best of my ability hopefully I will have got my rewards.”

Words: Bruce Talbot

“Tim Ambrose told me I was similar to Robbo WITH THE ability to bowl that nagging length and since I have joined the staff Steve has really helped me.”

Mentor: Miller’s bowling action has been compared to Warwickshire workhorse Tim Munton, who took over 1,000 wickets during his career and played two Tests for England

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It’s the most keenly anticipated fixture of the season and if you want to watch Sussex take on Australia at the end of July you’d better act now!

Members’ area tickets for the first two days of the three-day fixture, which starts on Friday July 26, are already sold out and Sussex expect the match to be a complete sell-out.

The Australians love coming to Hove and Sussex audiences love watching them. On their last tour in 2009 the four-day game attracted an aggregate attendance of more than 25,000 with the ground full to capacity on the first three days. Australia have visited Hove on three of their last four Ashes visits and specifically requested a fixture this year so that the families can join the players beside the seaside between the second and third Tests.

Four years on and it will be a much-changed Australia team that visits Sussex. Of the side that played in that game, which ended in a highscoring draw, there are only four survivors: skipper Michael Clarke and his vice-captain Brad Haddin, opener Philip Hughes and fast bowler Peter Siddle.

Chris Rogers has plenty of experience of Hove from his county career with Derbyshire and Middlesex and Sussex supporters will finally get the chance to see Ryan Harris, who joined the county in 2008 but only played one first-class game against MCC at Lord’s before opting to play State cricket for Victoria instead.

Mind you, the Sussex side has changed a fair bit too. Carl Hopkinson, who made a superb 115 in the second innings, is now on the coaching staff while South African Pepler Sandri (remember him?)

made his only appearance for the county in that game and took the wickets of both Hughes and Simon Katich.

It promises to be the highlight of the season – make sure you are there!

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Jordan quick to impress Sussex could have made the signing of the season in the multi-talented Chris Jordan Has there been a better signing this season than Sussex all-rounder Chris Jordan?

It’s early days of course and after some of the frustrating experiences Jordan suffered during his Surrey career he is right not to get too far ahead of himself.

But there seems little doubt that the Barbadian’s latent talent – first evidenced in 2007 when he took 20 wickets for Surrey aged 18 – seems to be flowering. He wouldn’t be the first cricketer who has been re-energised and rejuvenated at Hove.

A quick glance around the dressing room he now shares would be evidence enough of that.

Jordan began his Sussex career battle-hardened after playing six games in West Indies’ first-class competition during the opening months of the year. He took 24 wickets including a career-best 7 for 43 for Barbados and after he’d acclimatised to the numbing cold in April he made a sensational start for his new employers with match figures of 8 for 90 in the opening-round win over Yorkshire.

“Going to Barbados and playing competitively over there helped me a lot,” said Jordan. “I got into a good rhythm, managed to get some wickets which is good for confidence and when I came here to start the season I already felt ready to play.”

Five more victims against his former employers at The Oval was a cause for quiet satisfaction but what Jordan did in that game and the following

week against champions Warwickshire, when he took four wickets in the first innings, was to showcase an ability to be a handful on even the most placid of surfaces. With the heavy roller back this summer it is a useful tool to have for skipper Ed Joyce and it’s not hard when you meet Jordan to see where he generates his pace and bounce.

He is built like a light-heavyweight boxer with a strong pair of shoulders and thighs like tree trunks. But this physically imposing figure is something of a gentle giant. He speaks with that distinctive Caribbean lilt and is polite and courteous.

“Gentle giant sums him up pretty well,” says Professional Cricket Manager Mark Robinson.

“He’s been outstanding for us in the first few weeks of the season, To get five wickets at the Oval and four more at Hove on two pretty average wickets speaks for itself. He bowls with genuine pace and heart. We want him to be aggressive and he has demonstrated that. He’s got some pretty good batsmen out this season already.”

Sussex have got a multi-talented cricketer on their hands and one destined, at his current rate of progress, to perhaps play international cricket – he is eligible for West Indies and England. He has filled that troublesome slot at first slip and Robinson believes he is capable of scoring 850 Championship runs from No.8.

Jordan is keeping things firmly in perspective.

The latter part of his career at Surrey – he missed the entire 2010 season with back trouble – was a period of frustrating underachievement but Sussex already appear to have got him back on track. “I just want to keep producing performances for Sussex,” he says. “If that happens other things might come my way but we will have to wait and see.”

For Sussex fans, the waiting and the watching should be highly entertaining.

Words: Bruce Talbot

Chris Jordan leaps into action against Surrey at The Oval last month

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The Guv’nor’s Game 87 years ago Horsham staged the most remarkable Festival in its long history when George Cox took 17 Warwickshire wickets – at the age of 52. Bruce Talbot recounts one of the most remarkable games in Sussex’s history The Oakeses- Alfred ‘Joker’ Oakes and his sons Charles and Jack - both of whom played for Sussex, and the Coxes, George Senior and Young George. Two families whose names were interwoven into the history of the Festival for more than 70 years.

‘Joker’ did not wear the six Martlets, although he was a fine club player for Horsham and a former captain of the town’s football club. Instead, he became groundsman while still in his teens and took over at Horsham in 1911, continuing in the job for another 44 years before retiring in 1954.

six into the back garden of his Dad’s cottage when he took a hundred off a strong Surrey attack. Like Charles, Jack was also born in the cottage.

Then there are the Coxes and similarities between ‘Joker’ Oakes and George Cox senior cannot be ignored. Sussex historian John Marshall described Cox as a ‘nuggety old warhorse with splashes of grey in his military moustache and a tongue that belied a pair of kindly eyes.’ Like Joker, George Rubens Cox was something of a curmudgeon who doled out praise, even to his own children, reluctantly.

something,” growled his father from his armchair beside the hearth as he surveyed the scores in the evening paper. Pleasantries did not come as easy to Cox senior as the game itself.

Old George made his debut in 1895 and was still playing for Sussex aged 54, just two years after he enjoyed the finest moment of his career at Horsham and one of the finest individual performances in the county’s history when he took 17 wickets against Warwickshire in June 1926.

These days, any cricketer still playing at the top level into his 40s is regarded as some sort of

Old George made his debut in 1895 and was still playing for Sussex aged 54, just two years after he enjoyed the finest moment of his career at Horsham and one of the finest individual performances in the county’s history when he took 17 wickets against Warwickshire in June 1926.

His cottage still stands in the corner of the ground.

During Cricket Week the entire Oakes family mucked in. Jack, who died in 1997, recalled having to take the week off school to help. His sisters, May and Dorothy, would clean the players’ pads and boots.

Charles, who died in 2007, arguably lost his best cricketing years to the Second World War. But he scored more than 10,000 runs and took 449 wickets for the county, once memorably hitting a

George junior carried on the family tradition either side of the Second World War and played for the county for nearly 30 years, but even his finest achievements failed to stir much of a sense of familial pride. In July 1939 young George took 232 off the Northamptonshire attack at Kettering and the next day made 182 at Hove against Lancashire.

He returned to the family home in Warnham that evening no doubt feeling pleased with himself.

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phenomenon. George Cox routed Warwickshire aged 52. His economical bowling action – left-arm slows mixed with top-spinners – helped prolong his longevity – but so did his fastidious and seemingly relentless attention to physical fitness. He thought nothing of strolling for ten miles on a daily basis around Horsham and the surrounding villages – while a crude but perfectly workable Turkish bath at home would help sweat away any excess pounds.

He generated his pace from a big pair of shoulders.

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Before heading back to his home ground to face Warwickshire, Cox had played just two Championship games in 1926 and taken three wickets so he hardly arrived at Cricketfield Road in great form. The opening day– Saturday June 5 – was bright and sunny in contrast to much of the previous week when regular downpours had saturated Joker’s county wicket – then left uncovered of course - and hampered preparation, even though he had use of a motorised mower for the first time.

Back then Cricket Week was arguably the highlight of the year for the town’s folk. Shops and streets would be decorated with bunting and the organisers put on a variety show after each day’s play that would always be attended by both teams.

In 1926 the entertainment committee “proudly presented that highly amusing farce in three acts

by Sidney Blow and Douglas Hoare ‘Lord Richard in the Pantry.’” Later in the week there would be a well-attended Carnival Ball (fancy dress optional).

A crowd of around 2,000 paid a shilling each (sixpence after 4pm) to watch the first day.

Reading the Sussex Daily News reports, as Cox himself might have done as he puffed on his pipe at his fireside, it is evident just how important the social aspect of the festival was. It wasn’t until after five windy paragraphs that Cox’s feat in Warwickshire’s first innings, when he took eight wickets, even got a mention.

Warwickshire batted first with their formidable captain RES ‘Bob’ Wyatt and John Parsons and Parsons was dropped twice in reaching eight before settling down to take the score to 48 when Sussex made the breakthrough 15 minutes before lunch. Ted Bowley “captured Parsons’ wicket with

Before heading back to his home ground to face Warwickshire, Cox had played just two Championship games in 1926 and taken three wickets so he hardly arrived at Cricketfield Road in great form.

a great puzzler,” according to the Daily News. In other words, he was bowled.

His replacement Len Bates, who was born on the Edgbaston ground before eventually retiring to Sussex, was dropped on nought before lunch, by which time Cox was into his mammoth spell from the Town End. It didn’t take him long after he returned to the attack at 2.45pm to cause havoc.

With the total on 60 Wyatt was caught at mid-on, bringing Newhaven-born all-rounder Willie Quaife, a close friend of Cox’s, to the crease. Quaife and Bates began a partnership which was to take the score to 171, Quaife collaring Cox for six to bring up Warwickshire’s 150.

Cox broke the stand when Bates played on for 71 and by now ‘The Guv’nor’ was well into his stride.

He knocked back Norman Partridge’s middle stump and with the score on 199 came the wicket that gave him most pleasure as Quaife’s off peg was sent cartwheeling. “It beat me all the way and the ball went on with the arm,” recalled Quaife. “But I would rather be bowled by my old pal George than anyone else.” Quaife was 54 and the pair had been opponents since the first match between the counties in 1905 when Cox dismissed him for one.

As the wicket began to dry out the ball began to grip and turn sharply and Warwickshire’s innings ground to a halt. Cox sent down ten maidens in 11 overs either side of tea and eventually the pressure told as Cox picked up the last four wickets.

Warwickshire were all out for 257, Cox having taken 8 for 56 in 38.4 overs, 19 of them maidens.

Sussex’s batsmen found it just as tough when play resumed on Monday. They were 147 for 8 and heading for a first-innings deficit before Harry Parks and Jack Holmes added 58 for the ninth

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Two years later at the age of 54 Cox played in his 618th and final game for the county, fittingly at Horsham against Hampshire. In a career that had spanned 34 summers, he had taken 1,810 wickets for Sussex at 22.83. Only Maurice Tate (2,211) has ever taken more and their place as the all-time top two is never likely to be bettered. wicket. Holmes eventually fell for 87 but he had helped give his side a slender lead of four runs.

Warwickshire went in again after tea and Wyatt and Parsons posted 72 before Wyatt edged to Cornford behind the stumps and before the close Cox had taken 5 for 38 from 20 overs, seven of them maidens in an unbroken post-tea spell.

Parsons, shortly after reaching 50, was bowled “so curiously that for some time he did not realise what had happened.” The pitch was now benign but Cox sensed nervousness and unease among the batsmen. Santall propped forward, overbalanced as the ball fizzed past the outside edge and was stumped.

At 121, Quaife was dismissed by his old pal for the second time in the match and before the close Kilner had lost his off stump without scoring. The crowd had been swelled after tea by hundreds of schoolboys and once again Cox left the field to thunderous applause from the ring.

If the first two days had stretched credibility it was nothing compared to the third as Cox completed what is still, 85 years later, the best match analysis in Sussex’s history and the county secured a thrilling victory in the final over.

Rain kept the players off the field until 12.30pm and when Warwickshire resumed on 127 for 6 Croom and Bates added nine runs before Bates became Cox’s sixth victim. Croom and Smart

counter-attacked for a while and put on 39 in 36 minutes before Cox snared Smart and then took his eighth wicket with the second ball after lunch when Mayer lost his off stump. Peare did his best to hold things up “crouching cross-wise in front of the wicket, holding his bat in front of him as he strove his level best to withstand the veteran.”

Cox eventually bowled him for a duck – the ninth time he had hit the stumps in the match. He took his sweater with match figures of 17 for 106 from 75.3 overs, 36 of which had been maidens.

His second innings return of 9 for 50 has been bettered only seven times in the county’s history.

Only Bert Wensley had prevented ‘The Guv’nor’ from taking all ten wickets.

Once again the crowd showed their appreciation for Old George. Nearly 31 years since his debut for the county he had produced one of the greatest bowling performances in Sussex’s history. Among the spectators was young George. The ball, which was presented to Cox later in the season during a presentation at the County Ground, became a treasured family heirloom.

When the applause had died down and George was putting his feet up and his pipe on Sussex set about scoring 174 for victory at 2.40pm. Amid breathless excitement, they got to their target off the first ball of the final over.

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The strain of so great a performance left its mark and anno domini played its part too.

To use George’s own words ‘If I had another pair of legs, some of them would have to answer for it’.”

Two years later at the age of 54 Cox played in his 618th and final game for the county, fittingly at Horsham against Hampshire. In a career that had spanned 34 summers, he had taken 1,810 wickets for Sussex at 22.83. Only Maurice Tate (2,211) has ever taken more and their place as the alltime top two is never likely to be bettered.

In his prime in the early years of the 20th century he ought to have played for England. It was unfortunate that the peak of his career coincided with that of Kent’s Colin Blythe and Wilfred Rhodes, of Yorkshire, a pair of gifted slow leftarmers who would play 77 Tests between them.

We will leave his captain Arthur Gilligan to lead the tributes.

“As a senior professional he set very high standards to the others, instilling in them the best traditions of an English gentleman. George had a commanding personality and his influence on the team was a great one. I think he was one of the most loyal servants Sussex has ever had.” As epitaphs go, not bad. It might even have brought a gentle smile to the ‘Guv’nor’s’ lips.

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The European union International T20 cricket is coming to Horsham in July when the club hosts 15 games in the European division of the Champions Trophy. Martin Read and Tournament Director Dave Brooks look ahead to what’s in store.

International cricket comes to Horsham from Monday July 8 with the main square used by Sussex during this week’s festival staging games along with the neighbouring John Dew Ground as 12 sides compete for a place in the final at the County Ground, Hove.

Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Italy, Jersey, Norway and Sweden – the European teams immediately behind the big guns of Ireland,

CC Development Officer Barry Peay says: “The club was visited by the ECB’s inspector of pitches and he recommended that we should be given more representative cricket. Happily the European tournament follows on from that.

“With each country bringing 18 players, officials and hopefully supporters, this will be an interesting time at the club, raising our profile and making some friends and connections for us.

“It’s nice to know that the authorities recognise

of games and are really looking forward to an enjoyable tournament,” he said.

So who are the teams and players to look out for?

The Channel Islanders are expected to do well as they are more familiar with the conditions and Guernsey, coached by former Hampshire wicket keeper Nic Pothas, have played Sussex 2nd XI at Horsham. Guernsey CEO Mark Latter said: “Jamie Nussbaumer is the new captain and is strong and powerful with both bat and ball. Tim Ravenscroft

Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Italy, Jersey, Norway and Sweden – the European teams immediately behind the big guns of Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland - will be contesting the T20 event Netherlands and Scotland - will be contesting the T20 event with the top two teams going through to the global competition in Dubai to play for a place in the 2014 T20 World Cup in Bangladesh.

Horsham have been asked to provide extensive grass practice facilities and there will be a warmup friendly between Denmark and Gibraltar at Horsham on the Sunday preceding the tournament.

Entry to the matches will be free and Horsham

that we’re capable of staging prestigious events like this. It’s relatively easy for the participating countries to fly into Gatwick and then they’ll be staying in Crawley, so we’re handily placed for them to come over on the day – we’re very pleased to be part of it.”

The tournament presents a challenge to Horsham groundsman Lawrence Gosling and his team: “With four matches on most days it’ll mean a bit of juggling but we’re used to having plenty

has been on Sussex’s books and is another talented all-rounder and Ross Kneller and GH Smit are bighitting batsmen, too.”

Jersey expect Peter Gough, Ben Stevens and Anthony Kay to excel with both bat and ball and Ed Farley to hit well and keep wicket with distinction.

But this will be a hard fought tournament with every team determined to compete, so a surprise or two may be in the offing. Denmark organiser

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Bret Mulder predicts: “We have seasoned campaigners like Michael Pedersen, Freddie Klokker. Bobby Chawla, Bashier Shah and Rizwan Mahmood and they should deliver in pressure situations.”

France have a steadily improving cricket pedigree now bolstered by head coach Simon Cook, formerly of Middlesex and Kent. Captain Arun Ayyavooraju, Zika Ali and Usman Khan are likely to threaten with bat and ball and Durham University’s Tom Liddiard and Rory Gribbell should also feature prominently.

The Isle of Man are relishing the challenge and expect much from Lancashire Colts’ prospect Daniel Hawke and Max Stoke from the European Cricket Academy in Dubai. Sweden are expecting Wakil Jalai, Yasir Ikram, Azam Khalil and Serge Conein to be their stars. Meanwhile, Horsham stalwart Mike Parsons will be cheering on Belgium having captained them on a number of occasions.

Nick Pink, ICC Regional Development Manager says: “We urge fans to come to watch the group games and are really looking forward to Finals Day on Saturday July 13th at Hove – that promises to be a great spectacle under lights.”

The Isle of Man are relishing the challenge and expect much from Lancashire Colts’ prospect Daniel Hawke and Max Stoke from the European Cricket Academy in Dubai. Sweden ARE ANTICIPATING Wakil Jalai, Yasir Ikram, Azam Khalil and Serge Conein to be their stars Barry Peay, left, and Lawrence Gosling will be working hard to ensure the tournament runs smoothly

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Tournament Director Dave Brooks reports on how Sussex cricket has embraced the tournament When the call came in to the office last September from ICC Europe asking if Sussex would be able to host the European T20 World Cup Qualifiers in 2013 we knew it was a fun opportunity as – given our excellent partnership with Guernsey Cricket - we understood what this level of the game was all about. And we knew we could give these players the chance to feel like proper professional cricketers for the week by using our venues and relationships locally.

After all, most European cricket is played on artificial pitches and often on roll-up ones laid in a local park for the day. And I know as I have

Plaza Hotel in Crawley – part of the Crimson Group who sponsor the pre season trip to Dubai – put together a great offer for accommodation, and Travel Places – Sussex partners for their trip to the Caribbean t20 in January 2012 – swung into action to sort all the bus transfers and offer a flight booking service.

Add to that, clubs all over Sussex have been queuing up to host the countries in a pretournament friendly on the Sunday so don’t be alarmed when you find Austrian as the first language at Roffey CC on the Sunday before it starts. We really do have the whole county involved.

club and forget we have a responsibility to help develop the sport. We do it brilliantly in Sussex but why not around Europe too?

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we are so much luckier and we can call on some great facilities and really helpful clubs and partners.

Horsham and Preston Nomads immediately agreed to host the Group stage from Monday to Friday played on a few during my touring days with Kent Cavaliers each September. Whilst the city scenery and nightlife is great in Prague, those roll out pitches are as scary as hell when it is a football pitch beneath!

Anyway, here we are so much luckier and we can call on some great facilities and really helpful clubs and partners. Horsham and Preston Nomads immediately agreed to host the Group stage from Monday to Friday offering top quality facilities as used by Sussex First and Second XIs, the Crowne

The grand finale is Finals Day at Hove on Saturday July 13 – two semi finals with each winner qualifying for Dubai, but just as importantly having the chance to play the final under the floodlights, see their name up in lights on the great new scoreboard, and enjoy a crowd of around 1,000 (well, all the other teams will be there plus a rather big wedding in the Pavilion!).

What a dream – it almost makes me wish I was Swedish . . . well, I have the blond hair!

Sometimes it is easy to get wrapped up in our

teams have all been really supportive of the plan, and when I stepped down as Chief Executive I was delighted to be accepted as a volunteer to help deliver the competition.

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On the road again…

In three weeks Sussex stage their second Festival of the season at Arundel and once again there are attractive visitors to the Castle Ground In three weeks Sussex stage their second Festival of 2013 when the county make their annual trip to the Castle Ground at Arundel.

This year’s main opposition are Surrey, who are making their first visit to Arundel for a County Championship game since 1991.

That was only the second year of the Festival and the three-day game ended in a draw, Surrey having had much the better of things. Sussex were dismissed for 216 with no one getting past 50 and Waqar Younis, Martin Bicknell and Ian Greig all taking three wickets each for Surrey.

Darren Bicknell led Surrey’s reply with 126 in a total of 393 for 7 and when Sussex batted again 177 runs in arrears they lost six wickets wiping out the deficit and were grateful for Alan Wells’ 77 in a total of 203 for 9. Both Wells and Surrey’s Alec Stewart passed 10,000 first-class runs in this game.

The chances are that Alan’s son Luke might well have a big impact this year. The left-hander has scored centuries in his last three games against Surrey including a magnificent career-best 208 in the drawn game at The Oval in April.

Arundel tends to serve up good games. Last year, chasing a modest victory target of just 94 against Durham, Sussex needed an unbeaten ninth wicket stand of 21 between Steve Magoffin, who had earlier taken took nine wickets, and James Anyon to see their side to a two-wicket win.

On Sunday, Sussex Sharks continue their YB40 campaign against Northamptonshire Steelbacks, who are returning to Arundel for the second successive year.

Last year, Murray Goodwin’s unbeaten 67 eased Sussex to an eight wicket win after they had dismissed Northants for 129.

Arundel is the quintessential English cricket ground. It is an dendrologist’s dream, surrounded as it is by hundreds of fine trees in a natural

amphitheatre. And if you can drag yourself away from the cricket the views over the South Downs towards Amberley and Pulborough are stunning.

Arundel also stages Sussex 2nd XI cricket later in the year when Surrey are the visitors for both a one and three-day game from August 5.

To find out more about this year’s Arundel Festival visit www.sussexcricket.co.uk

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All’s Wells…

Luke Wells has learned about crease-occupation from one of the county’s greats and Sussex are seeing the benefits Murray Goodwin’s place in the pantheon of Sussex greats is secure but Sussex might have another batsman capable of occupying the crease and playing the long innings that was Goodwin’s stock-in-trade for much of his 12 seasons with the county.

Luke Wells certainly gave that impression at The Oval last month when he faced 412 balls and batted for nearly nine hours on his way to a career-best 208. It was Wells’ third successive hundred against Surrey (he made 127 here at Horsham last June).

Back in 2011 the pair had shared a stand of 304 for Sussex’s third wicket against Yorkshire. Wells contributed 174 – until last month his career-best – but Goodwin went on to make 274 not out, the third highest score of his Sussex career and one of eight scores of more than 200.

had scored so many double and triple hundreds.

“If you want to make big scores you have to have the same mind-set and game plan for the 400th ball as the first. It is not about changing the way you bat – you just need to bat the same all the way through and cut out risky shots.”

Wells certainly did that at the Oval. His father Alan – of whom comparisons are inevitable – scored 40 first-class hundreds for the county but he only converted one of them into a double century when he scored 253 against Yorkshire at Middlesbrough 22 years ago.

Wells junior has now made six hundreds and that maiden double century has gone a long way towards achieving his first target of the summer – 1,000 runs. He was on course to achieve it in 2011 but after scoring three hundreds before the end of May his form dipped in the second half of

“1,000 runs is a massive target of mine and so is playing more one-day cricket for Sussex. I’m desperate to get a chance and prove myself in other formats of the game.”

“I ended up about 130 not out at the end of the day and the next morning I decided to start going after the bowling,” remembers Wells. “Muz came up to me at the end of an over and said ‘did you play like that to get to 130?’

It was a massive lesson for me from someone who

the summer.

“1,000 runs is a massive target of mine and so is playing more one-day cricket for Sussex. I’m desperate to get a chance and prove myself in other formats of the game.”

His superb start to the season has inevitably led

Luke Wells on his way to his double hundred against Surrey at The Oval last month to speculation about an England Lions call-up.

England look well-stocked for opening batsmen at the moment with Yorkshire’s Joe Root making 236 himself the week after Wells dipped his bread. Sussex’s Professional Cricket Manager Mark Robinson says his opportunity will come if he can maintain his form throughout the season.

“That’s what champions do,” said Robinson.

“You have got to have the ability to do it all summer. There was talk of Luke playing for the Lions a couple of years ago but in the second half of the season he bombed. He has got to be wary of that.”

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The soul of Sussex Sussex and Horsham Cricket lost a great friend at the start of the year with the death of Christopher Martin-Jenkins. In tribute we have reproduced an article he wrote for the 2006 Lord’s final programme when Sussex beat Lancashire.

Nick keeps his extremely ancient tractor in a barn on the edge of the fields that abut the Victorian cottage where my wife and I now live in West Sussex. In July he comes along with Valerie to collect the hay from our own little field. The tractor saves them time but otherwise they are, like Sussex ‘s cricketers at Lord’s today, continuing a tradition that goes back centuries. Hay time and harvest; hard work and happiness.

We have been in the parish almost 30 years, in three different dwellings, but in that time I have left the country for at least a part of almost every

being developed to create a few more homes for executives. But there is an ancient pull every bit as magnetic as the modern one and I feel it every time I drive down our lane: if I go right I am heading for London, for the excitements of a magnificent city but also the noise and the traffic and the endless miles of brick and concrete. If I turn left my spirit always lifts, for that way leads to the Downs and the sea.

There are far more beautiful stretches of coastline around Britain than the chalky strip between Kent and Hampshire, and there are hills and mountains

the last Sussex team to reach Lord’s, does some coaching. Nothing much has changed here since I batted and bowled on the ‘large’ playing field that looks to my adult eyes these days like a pocket handkerchief.

High on the western tip of the town, we were sufficiently elevated to see the dirty British coasters “butting through the Channel in the mad March days” but also close enough to walk to the pebbly beach and to take gingerly steps into the ice cold, crystal clear water in air pungent with ozone.

Set back from the front and the town itself, I was

It is no coincidence that after every victory the current team still gets together for a hearty rendition of “Sussex by the Sea”. I hope very much that they are singing it this evening. winter in pursuance of cricket, hopping from one continent to another with, it sometimes seems, barely a moment to catch breath. Nick’s life has been a bit more static: he once went to the Isle of Wight for a holiday, but he soon got homesick. His father, he remembers, had the same problem once when he went to Kent. Neither of them really saw much point in leaving their own county.

These days Sussex is part of the busy South East where fields like those on which Nick and his farming father grew up are always in danger of

altogether more rugged and awesome than the Downs, but for all the sad connotations of Beachy Head I defy any stable soul not to be stirred by the sudden glimpse of vivid blue from the bare and rounded top of the Downs. No sight is more likely to bring to mind those rousing lines from Richard II: “This precious stone set in the silver sea... this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England “.

I spent five of the first 13 years of my life at Eastbourne, just round the corner from Beachy Head, at a school where Alan Wells, captain of

taken to see my first county cricket and a home team that included a young off-spinner named Robin Marlar. The school, St Bede’s, still going strong, was named after the venerable monk whose monastery at Jarrow was rather closer to Lancashire than Sussex, but his eighth century ‘Eccelesiastical History of the English People’ was written at a time when some of the familiar features of the Sussex landscape were being formed. Windmills and coastal defences like the Martello towers and Second World War “pill

HorSHAM Festival 2013 “I spent five of the first 13 years of my life at Eastbourne, just round the corner from Beachy Head”

boxes” came later; so, even, did the village churches; but, long before Bede, Celtic farmers were forming the first genuine village communities in England.

Until the coming of the turnpikes, the chalky downlands may have been a very remote part of England, but they were also the scene of relatively sophisticated farming activity for the ancestors of my friend Nick. Close by, in the wooded valleys of the Weald where cricket spread so rapidly in the 17th century, there was much of what passed in England then for ‘industry’. The historian, William Camden, wrote of Sussex in the 1580s being “full of iron mines, all over it, for the casting of which there are furnaces up and down the country, and abundance of wood is yearly spent”.

It is a varied as well as an ancient shire, therefore, that the cricketers of Sussex represent these days in their fastness at Hove, cheek by jowl with Brighton. In the days of Fry and Ranji it was a fashionable resort for swells and commoners alike. Today it is ‘ London-on-Sea ‘, as full of different nationalities as London - or, for that matter, county cricket.

Out of the county where village cricket blossomed between the deeply shadowed woods of the Weald and the bare green sweep of the Downs - there are at least nine different written references to cricket matches in Sussex villages before 1700 - has sprung a tough modern team drawn from many places, none more productive than Pakistan. It is extremely unlikely that Sussex would have achieved what they did in recent seasons without the happy but fortuitous recruitment of the inspirational Mushtaq Ahmed but there are enough locally produced players still in the team for genuine links with the county’s long history.

Traditionally this has been the county for families. From Edwin and William Napper in the mid-19th century, to George and Joseph Bean, through the Doggarts, the Gilligans, the Langridges, the Oakeses, the Parkses, the Wellses and the Newells I believe that 40 pairs of brothers have played cricket for Sussex. I have probably missed some but they all tell something about the soul of the county.

If there is little sentiment in the modern game, wise captains and coaches still tap into this sense of history and community. It is no coincidence that after every victory the current team still gets together for a hearty rendition of “Sussex by the Sea”. I hope very much that they are singing it this evening.

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Making their mark A crop of exciting youngsters are hoping to come of age for Kent Spitfires this season.

Matt Coles and Sam Northeast head a crop of young Kent talent beginning to make its mark on the senior game.

Fast bowler Coles, who celebrates his 23rd birthday on the day the Spitfires meet the Sharks in the final 40 overs game at Horsham, has won England Lions selection at home and abroad and batsman Northeast is also tipped for higher honours, but they are being chased hard by an even younger quintet of exciting prospects.

Sam Billings is perhaps best placed to make bigger strides this season, while 2013 may also see the flowering of off-spinner Adam Riley, batsman Daniel Bell-Drummond and pace bowlers Ivan Thomas and Adam Ball.

Having already impressed in his List A and Twenty20 appearances for the Spitfires, 21-year-

The last time…

Kent haven’t played a one-day game at Horsham since 1997 when the sides met in the AXA Equity & Law League. Matt Walker made 60 and former Sussex skipper Alan Wells 45 as Kent scored 220 for 9 from their 40 overs. Leg spinner Aamer Khan took 5 for 40.

Sussex paced their reply perfectly and clinched a four-wicket win with three balls to spare. Opener Bill Athey led the charge to victory with an unbeaten 109 while Keith Greenfield scored 35.

old wicketkeeper-batsman Billings is determined to make this season his ‘coming of age campaign’.

His eye-catching Clydesdale Bank 40 innings of 143 from 113 balls against Derbyshire at Canterbury last summer was a memorable showcasing of Billings’ talent as an aggressive one-day stroke-maker – yet his task for this season is also to rein in his strokes a touch while making a case for a selection in Kent’s four-day side.

Having spent much of the winter in the finishing school that is Australian grade cricket, Billings certainly believes he is now ready to set out his case for a crack at ‘red-ball’ cricket while maintaining his rapid progress on the one-day stage.

“I was sent out to the Darren Lehmann Academy in Adelaide as part of the ECB scholarship programme,” said Billings . “It was intense - we were there for five months - but it was brilliant in terms of developing my game and much better than staying back here in the cold.

“During my time there I got to meet Lehmann himself a couple of times and spent time just chatting about cricket and picking his brains. I saw him bat when I was a kid and remember him making runs against Muttiah Muralitharan by just playing it so late and angling the bat to find the gaps. He was a phenomenal batsman and it’s always good to speak to batsmen you admire and respect.

“Last year was my first full season in and around the Kent first team and naturally that helps you realise where your strengths are but it also exposes areas of your game that you need to work on.

Matt Coles hopes to celebrate his 23rd birthday today with some Sussex wickets

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“The fitness work was second to none but, batting-wise, I worked hard at improving my technique against the short ball and I’m feeling really good about that. Then, generally, it was just a case of tightening things up so that my batting can stand up to the rigours and tests of four-day cricket.”

Billings, who played A Grade for Port Adelaide during his time ‘Down Under’, is also very much aware that, as wicket-keeping understudy to Geraint Jones, he could get the call to take over the gloves at any time.

He added: “The other real positive from my time over there was that I got to keep wicket every week, which was exactly what I needed and, God forbid, should Geraint need a rest or pick up an injury, I feel more than ready to take over now.

“Jonesy and I both enjoyed a great CB40 campaign batting-wise last year, so I’d envisage that we might play it the same way in that he keeps and bats middle order and I field and give it a biff up top! Either way, I’ll just enjoy the game time.”

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Can they go one better?

Somerset finished runners-up in the Championship last season and their well-balanced squad is sure to challenge for honours again.

Somerset arrive at Horsham for their second Championship game here in four years looking to kick-start their four-day campaign.

After finishing runners-up to Warwickshire last season there is genuine belief at Taunton that Marcus Trescothick’s men can go one better in 2013 and lift the title for the first time in their history.

But they went into May still looking for their first victory having lost their opening game to Durham before drawing against Surrey at The Oval and then at home to champions Warwickshire.

New coach Dave Nosworthy would have loved to have got a win under their belts but the highly-

“We will be looking to play some good cricket as we have been doing and I think that every match so far we have shown improvement in how we have approached the game and we need to just keep our foot on the gas.”

Somerset have already suffered a major injury blow with the loss of wicketkeeper-batsman Craig Kieswetter who is currently sidelined with a broken thumb.

Jos Buttler has taken on the role in his absence but Somerset will have to make another enforced change this week with opener Nick Compton, who scored his first hundred of the season against Warwickshire, on England Test duty. This will be

made a brief appearance at Hove last season in our final home game before giving way to Pakistan’s Abdur Rehman.

The 21-year-old impressed plenty of people outside Taunton when he took five Warwickshire wickets in the televised game last month on a ground where spin bowlers have struggled in recent years and followed it up with four more in a win over Cardiff MCCU a few days later. In the students’ second innings Leach bowled 13 maidens out of 23.

Leach is delighted with the progress he has made this season. He said: “Things are going well for me and I am feeling in good nick at the moment. It is interesting playing on different wickets. The pitch

“We will be looking to play some good cricket as we have been doing and I think that every match so far we have shown improvement in how we have approached the game and we need to just keep our foot on the gas.” regarded South African, who took over at the start of the year, is aware that no major sporting title in this country takes so much winning given the gruelling nature of four-day cricket and factors such as the weather and injuries which are beyond the control of any coach.

Nosworthy said: “I don’t think that the Championship is ever won in April or May. For us the goal remains as it was – we want to try and win every game.

Buttler’s last game for a while as he links up with England’s squad for the Champions Trophy and one-day series against New Zealand next week.

In Compton’s absence, the opener’s slot could go to James Regan while don’t be surprised if Somerset go in with two spinners. Arul Suppiah, another candidate to replace Compton at the top of the order, has taken more than 130 wickets with his left-arm spin but Somerset also have high hopes for another southpaw in Jack Leach, who

for the Cardiff game was different and had more grass on it but it was about finding a way to build pressure through dot balls and bowl in the right areas to get wickets.”

Somerset have a decent seam attack too. Expect Steve Kirby, now in his fourth season at Taunton, to take the new ball. At 35 age does not seem to have doused Kirby’s competitive flame and earlier this season he took his 550th first-class wicket.

Similarly, Peter Trego still has a lot to offer.

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The 31-year-old is perhaps regarded more for his one-day performances but those who witnessed his performance at Hove last September will attest to his powers after he smashed 89 off 72 balls to help his side cruise to victory.

19-year-old Devonian Jack Overton has been given the new ball this season and responded with nine wickets in his first three games while Irishman George Dockrell is another slow-bowling option with his left-arm spin if Somerset decide to go in with two spinners.

Along with their captain, expect Alviro Petersen to prosper. The South African opener began his spell with the county with 167 and 91 against Surrey and followed it with 136 against Warwickshire. During the game both he and Buttler were awarded their county cap.

A well-balanced side who only lost once in four-day cricket last season, Trescothick’s men are sure to give Sussex a tough four days at this year’s Festival.

Back to back: Alviro Petersen scored hundreds in his first two Championship appearances for Somerset last month

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One-day kings History of sorts is made at Horsham this week when the ground stages its final 40 overs game. Having been semi-finalists for the last two years Sussex would love to go one better and win the competition for the third time. Bruce Talbot looks back on the county’s previous two triumphs.

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HorSHAM Festival 2013 Bobby Robson succeeded Ron Greenwood – who had a flat overlooking the County Ground – as England football manager, Ian Botham took a double hundred off the Indians at The Oval and England’s rebel cricketers returned from South Africa. It was 1982 – 30 years ago - and for Sussex the season began with great optimism following their narrow failure to win the Championship the previous year.

Unfortunately that optimism was misplaced. With Imran Khan touring with Pakistan, the county dropped from second to eighth in the three-day competition. His wickets could not be replaced while the batsmen were often inconsistent.

That is not a term that could be applied to their form in the John Player League though.

In the 16 games played Sussex lost just once – to Worcestershire in June – as they romped to the title with 58 points (4 points for a win back then)

order. Roland Butcher was one player capable of winning it for them and Butch skied one to me at backward square-leg off John Barclay.

“I thought ‘you beauty’ as I clutched the ball but it burst out of my hands, hit me on the head and fell to earth. I had a real stinker that day.” That was unusual. At the time Parker was regarded as the best fielder in England.

“At the end I ran out Knuckle (Emburey), who went for a very optimistic run. As he left the field I asked him why he had run and he said that I was having such a bad time in the field he thought I would miss that one too!” Garth le Roux took 3 for 27 as Sussex won the game by 23 runs.

Fast forward to 2008 and the 40 over competition didn’t even start until July 23 when Matt Prior’s hundred in blissful sunshine at Arundel helped Sussex to victory over Somerset.

By the time the squad arrived at Trent Bridge seven

the ball was there to hit you hit it – he was quite a strong guy and he had a good eye.

“We hit a few boundaries and a couple of sixes and suddenly it was 41 off four overs and that was probably the first point at which I thought we might have a chance.

Sussex needed 16 off the final over to be bowled, as it had been in all of Nottinghamshire’s previous CB40 games, by Charlie Shreck. Goodwin clipped the first ball backward of square for four but could only take a single to long on off the second.

Sami went for broke and a big outside edge flew down to the third-man boundary. Nine off three balls scored, seven to win. A single followed then Goodwin hit the fifth ball to the deep cover boundary. “Ashwell Prince was fielding and Sami should have been run out going for the second run but Prince was right on the rope instead of being ten yards in. If he’d aimed it at the non-striker’s

By the time the squad arrived at Trent Bridge seven weeks later the First Division title was effectively up for grabs as Sussex faced Nottinghamshire. On a used pitch taking spin Sussex were set 227 to win but they collapsed horribly. that was a new record. They finished 12 clear of Middlesex, whom they beat on August 29 to clinch the title in front of a 6,500 full house at Hove.

Sussex scored 228 thanks mainly to a wonderful opening stand of 134 between Gehan Mendis, who hit nine fours in a sparkling century, and Ian Gould (58). A slow pitch did offer assistance to the spinners and John Emburey kept Middlesex in with a chance by conceding just 20 runs in eight parsimonious overs.

Paul Parker recalls an amusing incident during Middlesex’s reply. “Mendo and Gunner put us on our way with a really good stand at the top of the

weeks later the First Division title was effectively up for grabs as Sussex faced Nottinghamshire. On a used pitch taking spin Sussex were set 227 to win but they collapsed horribly.

When Murray Goodwin was joined by No.10 Mohammed Sami they needed an improbable 97 off ten overs. Sami was no mug with the bat, but communication was a problem for his partner.

“Sami’s English wasn’t the best,” recalled Goodwin. “He understood basic stuff and I imagine Mushy probably taught him a few phrases but it wasn’t easy. When he came in all I kept telling him was to hit straight. I just told him that if

end Sami would have been a goner.”

Three to win. “I swung at the last ball but I didn’t quite get it in the screws,” says Goodwin. “I looked over towards the long on boundary and saw Andre Adams put his hands up to catch it and then just as quickly he put them down again as if to say ‘that’s gone’ and it ended up about ten yards over the rope. I couldn’t believe how far I had hit it to be honest.” Neither could anyone else.

Sussex were champions in the most dramatic way possible.

HorSHAM Festival 2013 “ I looked over towards the long on boundary and saw Andre Adams put his hands up to catch it and then just as quickly he put them down again as if to say ‘that’s gone’ and it ended up about ten yards over the rope.”

Murray Goodwin salutes the Sussex dressing room after his title-winning innings at Trent Bridge four years ago

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Strength to strength The women’s and girls’ game in Sussex continues to develop as Director of Cricket Charlotte Burton explains With such superb support from both the Sussex Cricket Board and Sussex CCC, women’s and girls’ cricket in the county has gone from strength to strength and is now one of the biggest growing sports. More and more girls have been introduced into cricket through both schools and local clubs.

None of this, of course, would be possible without the support of schools and cricket clubs and in particular the dedicated coaches, teachers, parents and club members who give up their time to give girls opportunities to be allowed to learn, develop and play cricket.

It is also important to remember that not everyone can represent the county which is why the role of the schools and clubs in giving girls competitive cricket is essential. The aim one day is to get some of them through to the next stage on the journey towards representing their county and, of course, their country.

The number of girls attending Sussex trials each year is increasing and competition for places is very competitive and the standard extremely high which sometimes makes selection very difficult.

The squads have indoor training throughout the winter at the Deans Leisure Centre in Rottingdean, which has proved extremely beneficial not only for improving cricket skills but also team building upon which great emphasis is placed.

Sussex currently run junior teams at under-11s,

12s, 13s, 15s, 17s 19s and the senior team.

The under 13s, 15s and 17s play in the County Championship whilst the under 11s, 12s and 19s play friendlies. There is also a Twenty20 competition for under 15s and 17s.

The aim of the age group teams playing in the County Championship is to bring a trophy back to Sussex but it is also extremely important that they develop their cricket and that when they play they enjoy it.

In February Sussex under-19s were runners-up to MCC in a tournament held in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. This was the first time a women’s senior or junior team from Sussex had played overseas and they were great ambassadors both on and off the pitch.

The senior team play in the top division of the County Championship with Berkshire, Essex Kent, Middlesex, Nottinghamshire, Warwickshire and Yorkshire and are the defending national Twenty20 champions.

The majority of the senior squad have been with Sussex since they were under 11s and have developed through the various age group squads.

Holly Colvin has this season been appointed captain and Sarah Taylor vice-captain. With their experience and enthusiasm the squad and management are looking forward to a successful and enjoyable season with the intention of not

only retaining the Twenty20 title but bringing the County Championship back to Sussex where it belongs.

Sussex currently has four players in the England squad Sarah Taylor, Holly Colvin is this year’s Holly Colvin, Sussex captain and she will Arran Brindle also be representing England and Georgia Elwiss. It is a against old rivals Australia very important season for England with the home series against our fiercest rivals Australia with two of the three NatWest One-Day Internationals at TheBrightonandHoveJobs.com County Ground, Hove on August 23 and 25. It is hoped there will good support from girls throughout Sussex who will have the opportunity to see some of the top players in the world in action.

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