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INSIDE YOUR MATCH GUIDE 5:

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Sussex chairman Jim May welcomes you to Hove 6:

Meet the Sussex squad 39:

Chief Executive Zac Toumazi’s welcome 9:

Sussex’s Aussies 13-15:

Sussex’s Aussie fast bowler Steve Magoffin profiled 17-19:

Meet the Australia squad 20-25:

Ashes memories, with Guardian writer Paul Weaver 26-27:

Classic image from the history of the fixture 28-29:

Monty Panesar profile 30-33:

Matt Prior, profiled by Paul Weaver

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Past meetings. A look back at some of the memorable clashes in a fixture dating back to 1878 44-45:

Sussex and the Ashes. Some of the players who have excelled in cricket’s greatest rivalry 46-47:

As a new book on Sussex’s greatest player is published, Justin Parkinson profiles Ashes hero Maurice Tate 49:

Mementos of past games in the Sussex Cricket Museum 50:

Cover story. What our iconic front cover images are all about A packed County Ground as seen from the Spen Cama Pavilion during the last Sussex-Australia game in 2009

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SO MUCH TO OFFER By Jim May, Sussex Chairman

e are delighted to welcome the Australia touring team back to Hove and believe we can offer great cricket coupled with some of the best practice facilities in England. It is very pleasing to welcome the players’ families as the Australian Cricket Board chose our ground to host their visit to this country. We are sure that you will find Brighton and Hove a vibrant city with plenty to offer people of all ages. Sussex is a lovely county with both countryside and coast to enjoy. Of all the touring sides we regard Australia as something rather special, granted our country’s keen rivalry over the years, our shared heritage and a common love of sport and humour! Mentioned elsewhere are the many links between Sussex and Australia over the years. Currently, we are very pleased that Steve Magoffin has moved to Hove after plying his trade at the Gabba and the WACA. Sussex has a proud history in cricket and names like Wisden, Lillywhite, Murdcoch, Fry, Gilligan, Tate, Parks, Dexter, Snow and Prior have graced our county team. Sadly the start of this year was marked by two Sussex cricket greats of world standing passing away prematurely. Christopher Martin-Jenkins was one of the world’s most loved cricket writers and broadcasters. CMJ was very proud that his son Robin was an integral part of our “Team of the Decade” which won all the domestic trophies in the period since 2003. Tony Greig was a cricketing genius in every sense, captaining Sussex and England before settling for a media career in Australia. Poignantly, I had the privilege of showing Greigy and his family around

Hove last July when Tony was enthusing about his time as a young man at Sussex. Since we last hosted Australia in 2009, we have completed our £10 million investment in a major redevelopment of our ground. We believe that we have created the best county ground by with women’s Pl Matt Prior modernising our facilities whilst retaining England the Disability Cricketer unique ambience of a seaside cricket ground. In addition to cricket, we are pleased to host a growing number of non-match events including dinners, conferences, concerts and weddings. Another new feature is our Museum ‘Sussex Cricket World’ which is situated in the ground floor of the Spen Cama Pavilion. This is well worth a visit as it features some wonderful memorabilia about Sussex Cricket including our past visitors from Australia. This year we have launched the Sussex Cricket Charities Appeal.This aims to raise funds to support our Cricket in the Community programme as well developing the educational aspects of our Museum. Your assistance in making our two important cricket charities financially sustainable is much appreciated. Our focus remains on developing Sussex Cricket in the widest sense in the recreational game and in continuing to develop a competitive professional squad. We have a strong leadership team with Mark Robinson and Ed Joyce and are confident about our future I am very honoured to welcome everyone to Sussex and hope that the weather is kind to us for three days of entertaining cricket. Thank you for your support and enjoy the cricket.

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WELCOME TO HOVE By Chief Executive Zac Toumazi

elcome to The BrightonandHoveJobs.com County Ground, Hove for this fantastic occasion where we are lucky enough to be able to entertain the touring Australians for three days. We’d like to extend a very warm welcome to the Australian squad, their support staff, their families, supporters and everyone connected with the tourists during this eagerly anticipated Ashes series, when the nation’s sporting thoughts turn to the age old battle to win the famous urn.

“We’ve been extremely fortunate to welcome Australia to Hove several times in recent years”

www.sussexcricket.co.uk We’ve been extremely fortunate to welcome Australia to Hove several times in recent years and I’m sure many of the crowd this weekend will have also ventured down to watch the side in 2009 in a thrilling four-day match which was eventually drawn. Both sides have made a few changes in their line-up since that 12-a-side match. In fact there are only six Sussex players in the team that took to the field for the game still with the club in a playing capacity. Seven if you count Carl Hopkinson, who is now our Club Coach and struck a fantastic century in the second innings. The Aussies were of course led by Ricky Ponting back then who we saw in action for Surrey recently, at our Arundel Festival of Cricket back in June. Aside from the mouthwatering action in the middle, it was a sumptuous four days weather-wise with a packed crowd every day, so hopefully we’ll be just as lucky this time around. Of course the ground is very different from four years ago and if you haven’t visited us since then, you’ll be in for a pleasant surprise! Our Chairman Jim May has gone into more detail in his article

about the changes which we have gone through but I’d like to mention how great the ground looks these days and the thought of a full Hove for all three days of this match really is an exciting one, and the atmosphere promises to be as special as ever! We still have some scintillating cricket to look forward to after this match, as we still have games from all three formats of cricket to be played here this season. We conclude our Friends Life t20 South Group campaign on Wednesday against Kent Spitfires, before the first of our three remaining home LV=County Championship Division One clashes, when we face Derbyshire from next Friday. The Netherlands and Nottinghamshire Outlaws visit us later in August for floodlit affairs in the Yorkshire Bank 40 whilst we’ll even be hosting international cricket in August with two Women’s One-Day Internationals, when England take on Australia over the Bank Holiday Weekend. So there’s still plenty of cricket to get your teeth into at Hove after this landmark tourist match and we’d be delighted to see you back here later on in the season. Good Old Sussex By The Sea!

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SUSSEXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

AUSSIES Australians have made an impact at Hove in the last 25 years, as Bruce Talbot discovered

Michael Bevan was a prolific accumulator for Sussex in two seasons at Hove

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Tim Ambrose was spotted playing club cricket at Eastbourne and later became an England Test player

ustralian players have represented Sussex with style over the years and while some of them cannot claim to have made the same impact as the likes of Imran Khan and, more recently, Mushtaq Ahmed there have been some fine Aussies at Hove nonetheless. Perhaps the best of them was left-hander Michael Bevan, whose span on the south coast took in the 1998 and 2000 seasons, although initially he actually signed a five-year contract! Regarded as the best ‘finisher’ in one-day cricket at the time (pre T20 days of course), Bevan also won plenty of games for Sussex in the County Championship. An intense and shy man, he did his talking in the middle, reeling off four hundreds in five innings during one purple patch 15 years ago. It would have been interesting to see how he adapted to T20 and to an arguably stronger Sussex limited

overs side than the one he played in. In 1999 Bevan’s place was taken by the popular Tasmanian Michael Di Venuto, at the start of a county career that only ended last year after spells with Derbyshire and Durham. No.3 in the order had been a problem position for Sussex during the early years of the Chris Adams’ era. Not only did ‘Diva’ solve that issue he and his captain were outstanding in one-day cricket as Sussex won their first trophy under Adams when they clinched the NCL second division. Sadly, Di Venuto had gone home to play international cricket when the title was clinched at a rainy Derby. Before those two, and back in the early 1980s, Tony Dodemaide had joined Sussex. In those days the Hove wickets were pretty unforgiving unless you were express pace and Dodemaide was no more than fast medium. But he was an unselfish and hardworking cricketer more than capable of batting

www.sussexcricket.co.uk in the top six in Championship cricket. In 2009, the last time Australia were here, Damien Wright – another Tassie – had just finished a brief spell as our overseas player. Back in 2006, Duncan Spencer, from Western Australia, helped Sussex out of an early-season injury crisis. No less a batsman than Viv Richards once claimed that Spencer was the quickest white bowler he had ever faced. Sadly, injuries precluded Spencer from building on a promising start to his career at Kent. For the last two years Sussex have been magnificently served by the long-striding Queenslander Steve Magoffin, who is profiled on page 13. Then there are the players with dual passports – born and bred Australians who made their home in England and played county cricket. Murray Goodwin became an Australian after settling in Perth and was already in the Sussex side in 2001 when the county were recommended a young wicketkeeperbatsman from New South Wales who was trying to qualify by playing league cricket for Eastbourne. Tim Ambrose joined the staff at the same time as Matt Prior and

they were rivals for the gloves at Hove, and later for England. Ambrose left to join Warwickshire in 2005 where he won Test recognition. Kepler Wessels has the distinction of playing against Sussex for two different countries as well as for the county itself. He toured here with Australia in 1985 and nine years later was back at Hove during South Africa’s first visit following readmission. Dave Gilbert was also on that Australia tour 18 years ago and returned in 1998 as the county’s Chief Executive. Then there are the ones that got away. Ryan Harris, who will probably play at Hove this week, had one first-class game for Sussex in 2008 while Damien Martyn was earmarked to replace Bevan in 1999 before establishing himself in the Australia team and pulling out. And if the aforementioned Gilbert had his way Shane Warne might have been a Sussex player, instead of locking horns with the county during his time as Hampshire captain. Gilbert tried to bring him to Hove in 2000 and only Warne himself will know how close he came to signing. And finally there’s Tim Neilsen. He was Australia coach on their last tour in 2009 and nine years earlier Gilbert and Chris Adams were serious about recruiting him to fill the troublesome keeperbatsman role in the prePrior and Ambrose era. But having just been promoted in South Australia’s coaching set-up Neilsen, who was actually born in London, declined. Michael Di Venuto joined Sussex in 1999 at the start of a 14 year career in the county game. Here he is in action for Durham at Hove in 2009 with Andy Hodd keeping wicket

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SUSSEX’S SUPER AUSSIE Steve Hollis profiles Sussex fast bowler Steve Magoffin, the Australian fast bowler who relishes English conditions as he spearheads the county’s Championship bid

Magoffin uses his physical attributes to get bounce and carry on even placid English surfaces

here have been plenty of Sussex players over the years who haven’t received the international recognition they perhaps deserved. It will always remain a mystery to those at Hove why Robin Martin-Jenkins was continually overlooked by England during his career. Jason Lewry must have scratched his head as a series of bowlers with less impressive first-class records – Jimmy Ormond and Kabir Ali anyone? than himself picked up Test caps. It seems almost certain that Steve Magoffin will join the likes of Martin-Jenkins and Lewry in the ranks of ‘best players never to play for their countries’. Magoffin has taken more than 350 first-class wickets at an average under 25 but that has not been enough to catch the eye of the Australian selectors. Only once has he come close to wearing the ‘Baggy Green’ when he was called up as a standby for the 2004 tour to South Africa due to injuries to Ben Hilfenhaus and Peter Siddle. In the end he wasn’t needed and went back to

churning out consistent performances for Western Australia, Queensland and now Sussex. His form since arriving at Hove last season has been so impressive that he could quite easily be lining up for Australia today rather than against his countrymen. The 32-year-old finished as leading wicket-taker in his first season at Sussex with 57 victims at an average of a touch over 20 and has carried on in the same vein this year. There was even talk about a surprise Ashes call-up after he took career-best figures of 12-31 against Somerset at Horsham back in May but Australia’s loss has definitely been Sussex’s gain. Coach Mark Robinson rates Magoffin alongside Yasir Arafat – who helped the county win the Twenty20 Cup and Pro40 League in 2009 - as his best ever overseas signing and it is hard to argue. Robinson said: “You never know how well anybody is going to do when you sign them so you cannot say he’s been a surprise. When you sign an overseas player you want someone who is going to make a difference but nobody comes with a guarantee. >>

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Steve Magoffin celebrates one of his 12 wickets against Somerset in May

>> “Steve has done really well for us. Yasir Arafat did pretty well in terms of our one-day success but as overseas players go those two have to be two of the best. “In terms of international honours some people play their best cricket at the back end of their careers so maybe it has come at the wrong time for Steve. Then again if Australia get any injuries this summer, who knows?” You would be hard pressed to find anybody at Hove who would question the signing of Magoffin now. But that was not the case last April when more

than one journalist at the press conference to announce his arrival was forced to ask ‘Steve who?’ and furiously type his name into a search engine. A 32-year-old who had never played for his country was not the kind of high-profile signing supporters tend to crave but Magoffin instantly silenced any doubters. He took 7-34 on his debut against Lancashire and has not looked back since. He was the sixth highest wicket-taker in division one of the Championship last season and passed 100th wicket for Sussex - in just 25 Championship games – last month. He is well on his way to surpassing his 57 scalps of

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“He is the archetypal English bowler in some ways in the way he uses his height and those big levers of his to get carry and bounce” – Mark Robinson

last year and despite his advancing years – he turns 34 in December - it seems inconceivable Sussex will not offer him a new deal at the end of the season when his current contract runs out. So what is the secret to his success? Robinson says there is no magic formula, just a good technique combined with a strong work ethic. Robinson added: “He is the archetypal English bowler in some ways in the way he uses his height and those big levers of his to get carry and bounce. “When you watch him there is not a lot that can go wrong there. He has got a great seam position.

Mark Robinson claims Steve Magoffin is one of the two best overseas players he has brought to the club

There are quicker bowlers but he is no slouch and has a good bouncer as well.” Magoffin laughed when it was suggested to him after his dozen wickets had destroyed Somerset that he might get an Ashes call-up but it wouldn’t be a surprise. Back in 1981 Mike Whitney was called up after playing a handful of games for Gloucestershire to play in an Ashes Test at Old Trafford. All Sussex fans can hope is that Magoffin keeps taking wickets – and the Aussie seamers avoid injuries. Steve Hollis reports on cricket for The Brighton Argus

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THE AUSTRALIA SQUAD

Michael Clarke (Captain) Clarke has had to work hard during the early stages of the tour to confirm his fitness after a back problem ruled him out of the Champions Trophy. He comes into the tour in prime form. In 2012 he plundered 1,595 runs at an average of 106.33 including 286 at 47.66 during the 4-0 series defeat in India earlier this year. The 32-year-old from New South Wales will look to resume his dominant displays against the old enemy and any chances of an Australian series win will depend heavily on what the captain can produce in the middle.

Brad Haddin (Vice Captain) Haddin stepped into the job when Shane Watson dropped out earlier this year following the muchpublicised ‘homework’ row with former coach Mickey Arthur. The 35-year-old from New South Wales is an excellent glove man but perhaps more importantly he will bring middle-order ballast to a vulnerablelooking Australian batting line-up.

Ashton Agar (pictured) The 19-year-old made an indelible mark on the game earlier this month when he nearly became the first No.11 to score a hundred in Test history. Called into the side for his debut because of his left-arm spin, Agar showed that the batting prowess he displayed during the last Australian winter for WA was no fluke. Earlier this summer, he was playing

club cricket for Henley but is now expected to play a full part in the Ashes series.

Jackson Bird Back problems curtailed Bird’s remarkable rise to Test cricket when he starred in two of Australia’s three Tests against Sri Lanka during the winter, taking 11 wickets at 16.18 and drawing comparisons with the great Glenn McGrath. Bird got some practice in English conditions on the Australia A tour earlier this summer although he only played in one first-class game.

Ed Cowan If he plays, this will be Cowan’s second game of the summer at Hove having played here in the Championship for Nottinghamshire in May. Cowan regularly made starts as Australia’s opener in the India series but only scored one 50. The 31-year-old left-hander from Tasmania played in seven Championship games for Notts, scoring 478 runs with a best of 81.

James Faulkner The 23-year-old bowling all-rounder sealed his Ashes place after starring for Tasmania in their Sheffield Shield win win over Queensland. He averages 22.34 with the ball and his left-arm swing could be a handful in English conditions. He can also contribute lower-order runs as a firstclass average of nearly 30 attests.

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Ryan Harris A real threat when fit, Harris has taken 54 wickets for Australia in 13 Tests at 22.68, but he has struggled with a host of injury problems. Harris had a brief spell with Sussex at the start of the 2008 season, playing at Lord’s against MCC before he was released from his contract when he signed for Queensland as a local. Like several of the other Ashes squad members, Harris prepared for the series by playing for Australia A.

Phil Hughes Hughes seemed to have rediscovered his form last winter against New Zealand before a poor tour to India, when he made one fifty and struggled against spin. The left-hander, 24, remains on the hunt for a first Test hundred in two years and is another batsman who must begin converting starts into big scores. Hughes is one of six squad members who played at Hove in 2009.

Usman Khawaja Khawaja made his Test debut against England in 2011. That year he played six Tests and scored 263 runs but was not involved at Test level again before this Ashes series. The Pakistan born left-hander, 26, warmed up for the Ashes by playing for Australia A and he scored a half-century in the tour opener against Somerset.

Nathan Lyon As Australia’s No.1 spinner, the off-break bowler will go toe-to-toe with Graeme Swann and Sussex’s Monty Panesar but while they took 20 and 17 wickets respectively in India last winter Lyon, 25, struggled and was dropped for the second Test before he was recalled at Delhi when he took nine wickets.

James Pattinson Pattinson struggled in India during the winter despite taking five wickets in Chennai in a series dominated by spin. Earlier in the winter, he only played in two Tests against South Africa because of injury but the 23-year-old from Victoria has impressed in the warm-up matches and is capable of hitting the bat hard. He took seven wickets in the win over Somerset last month at the start of the Ashes tour. Unfortunately, Pattinson has suffered a stress fracture and will fly home next week for treatment.

Chris Rogers Rogers’ surprise return to the squad for the Ashes came five years after his solitary Test cap against India in 2008 when he made 19 runs. No one in the Ashes’ squad has more experience of English conditions than the 35-year-old who has been a prolific presence at the top of the order for Middlesex since 2011, having also played for Leicestershire and Northamptonshire earlier in his career.

www.sussexcricket.co.uk The fast men, left to right: Ryan Harris, Mitchell Starc, Peter Siddle, James Pattinson, James Faulkner and Jackson Bird

Peter Siddle Another who was on the last Ashes tour, when he played at Hove, Siddle enjoyed a productive Australian summer, taking 24 wickets including a five-for against India in Mohali. He averages 30 with the ball in England and will look to hold the attack together with his aggressive seam bowling. The 28-year-old from Victoria is also a dangerous lowerorder batsman and scored two half-centuries in the fourth Test against India earlier this year.

Mitchell Starc The 23-year-old left-armer from Sydney played at Hove last year for Yorkshire in the CB40 although his figures (8-0-71-0) didn’t do his talents justice. A tall bowler capable of consistent swing both ways, he took six wickets during the India series when his batting was a revelation. In the Mohali Test he made 99 and 35 and has the potential to become a genuine all-rounder.

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David Warner The ‘story’ of the Tour so far after he was banned until the Third Test following a bust-up involving England’s Joe Root in a Birmingham bar after the Champions Trophy game in June. On his day, the 26-year-old from New South Wales is a destructive left-handed opener in any format but three hundreds in 34 Tests suggests his temperament for the longer format of the game needs to improve. Averages 26.14 in seven away Tests, compared to 50 at home.

Shane Watson Watson will be looking to focus purely on his duties as a player after relinquishing the vice-captaincy. His batting average in England of 33.77 will need to improve if Australia are to regain the Ashes but he has been earmarked to open in the Tests. The 32-year-old from New South Wales has cut down his bowling since suffering a calf injury although he might have to resume the role during the Ashes series.

Wicket-keeper Wade had a terrible time as opener in India with just one fifty, forcing the selectors to bring back Haddin for the Ashes and relegate Wade, who was on the last Ashes tour, to the role of understudy. The 25-year-old Tasmanian has played in 12 Tests since making his debut in the West Indies in April 2012.

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HEADINGLEY 81?

I WAS THERE Paul Weaver remembers some of his favourite encounters with the Australians as a young cricket lover and then journalist in nearly 50 years of watching Ashes clashes

t was a July day in 1964 when I saw the touring Australians for the first time. They had brown faces and big green caps and had the exotica of space travellers for this gawping 12-year-old. I clutched a bottle of Tizer, a scorecard, an autograph book and my first ever Playfair Cricket Annual, which had cost my Dad half a crown (12 and a half pence) and had a picture of Bobby Simpson, the Australian captain, on the cover. We couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to go to a Test match so my Dad had taken me to watch them play Leicestershire, where we lived, at Grace Road. >>

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“Have you got Sobers?” asked the man in the long white coat. When the boy said he had, and turned his pages back to reveal the signature of the great West Indies captain, Pepper wrote his name over it. Unforgivable. Ian Botham salutes the Headingley crowd in 1981. There were only 5,000 spectators to witness one of the great Ashes Tests – although hundreds of thousands more claim to have been there including Paul Weaver!

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Pepper physically pushed me away. “Go away, sonny,” he said, “I’m off for my tucker.” It was much later when I came to learn that Pepper was one of the most controversial and outspoken of cricketers. Once, in 1966, when the magnificent Garry Sobers was in his pomp and in England, another little boy asked Pepper for his autograph. “Have you got Sobers?” asked the man in the long white coat. When the boy said he had, and turned his pages back to reveal the signature of the great West Indies captain, Pepper wrote his name over it. Unforgivable.

“The 2005 Ashes series may have been the greatest ever. But for me, the greatest match remains Headingley ’81.” >> As lunchtime approached I got ready to sprint towards my heroes to collect their autographs. There were so many to choose from. The Aussies were strong in batting in those days: Simpson, Bill Lawry, Ian Redpath, Brian Booth, Peter Burge, Norman O’Neill … The bowling was less strong, although led by the wonderful Graham McKenzie, who would become even more wonderful a few years later when he joined Leicestershire. Simpson, I decided, would be my target, the captain, a wonderful batsman and an equally outstanding slip fieldsman. It was then that my Dad tugged at my arm. “Do you see the umpires?” he asked. “Well, that one there is ‘Cec’ Pepper, one of the finest Australian cricketers never to play for his country, and he would feel very flattered if a little boy like you remembered who he was and wanted his autograph. “Aw, Dad!” I protested, but he was firm and told me to get Pepper and then concentrate on the players at tea-time. You can imagine, then, how shattered I felt when

Leicestershire drew that game against Australia, which in my eyes meant they were every bit as good as Simpson’s side. Like Australia, we had a batsman called Brian Booth and, as he scored 22 and 70 and the elegant Aussie vice-captain made a duck and did not bat in the second innings, our man was better. But when it came to Test cricket I was brought up to believe that the Australians were the better of the two Ashes teams. I had been aware, in a subliminal sort of way, that they had won 4-0 in Australia in 1958-59, when England sent arguably their strongest team, and retained them through to 1970-71, when Ray Illingworth’s team famously won Down Under. By the time the Aussies came to England in 1972, under Ian Chappell, I was a precocious reporter. I remember interviewing England batsman Peter Parfitt in a London hospital, where he had just had a knee operation. What did he think of the new Aussie sensation Dennis Lillee, I asked him. “He’s not bad,” he said. “But I doubt he will be as good as John Snow this summer.” These were sweet words for this tyro hack, who was >>

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Adrian Murrell’s classic image of Ian Botham celebrating his 149 at Headingley with a cigar

>> living in Brighton by that time. But to our mutual consternation Lillee was every bit as good as Snow that year, perhaps even better, taking 31 wickets in the series at 17.67. When the great Ashes series are recounted, this one is often over-looked. But it was terrific. It was drawn 2-2 and went right down to the wire. A gangling young man called Tony Greig made his Test debut at the start of the series. Both Greig and Snow played for Sussex in the match against the touring side at Hove summer. Sussex won by five wickets, their first victory over the Aussies since 1888. The 2005 Ashes series may have been the greatest ever. But for me, the greatest match remains

Headingley ’81. I still lie to people – lie even to myself – that I was there to watch Ian Botham’s unforgettable and unbeaten 149 not out, because I sort of believe I was. But I was cricket correspondent for the News of the World then, and went home on the Saturday night. Botham played his wonderful innings on the Monday, after the rest day, and I actually watched it on TV. The Ashes remain the greatest of all series. This country defines itself by its historical relationship with other countries. And English and Australian cricket is defined, most of all, by the Ashes. Where would we be without the Aussies. I love them. Can’t tell them that, of course.

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Strength and conditioning work 1981 style as Dennis Lillee limbers up in front of a bemused steward during the tour match at Hove. Australia won and Sussex caused a stir by fielding seven uncapped players.

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TIME FOR MONTY? Sussex’s world-class left-arm spinner could still have a part to play in this summer’s Ashes defence. By Bruce Talbot

ndy Flower could have more than a passing interest in the long-term weather forecast during his Ashes planning because there is the prospect if we continue to have a ‘summer’ worthy of the name that England’s defence of the urn could revolve around our two world-class spinners. As well as aiding reverse swing, dry pitches would be ideal for Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar to demonstrate why they had taken 376 Test wickets between them ahead of the Ashes series, even though they have only played eight Tests together and been on the winning side just once when they shared 19 Indian wickets in Mumbai last November. Swann’s late-flowering England career – he has now played 52 Tests - has been on an upward trajectory pretty much since his debut in 2008. Panesar didn’t play for his country for three years after July 2009, when his famous last-wicket stand with James Anderson staved off defeat in the first Test of the last Ashes series. A year later he switched counties to join Sussex and there is no doubt that the move to Hove, which enabled him to bowl regularly at better batsmen in the First Division of the County Championship, has taken his game to a new level. Having returned to the England team early in 2012, when he took 16 wickets in two Tests against Pakistan, Panesar continued to blossom in domestic cricket with 53 Championship wickets in a damp summer when cold fingers and unresponsive pitches were the norm. “In the second half of last season I think that was the best Monty has bowled since he burst onto the scene for England in 2006,” says his county coach Mark Robinson. “When he is bowling well Monty takes pace off the ball naturally and gets that lovely loop. As we know he’s got all the attributes for a good spinbowler: long fingers, massive hands and height.”

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The early part of this season, in contrast, has been frustrating for both Panesar and his coach. A shoulder injury followed by a virus have left Panesar under-par and last month Sussex even took him out of the firing line so he could rest his shoulder and work on his action with Sussex coach Mark Davis, a former off-spinner. “Monty gets very frustrated if he doesn’t bowl as he wants,” added Robinson. “He can be bowling averagely by his standards and still do a good job for the side in terms of keeping his economy rate to around two runs an over but he sets himself high standards and practices very hard. “You can’t cheat the game and to get back to what he wants to be at he knows he has to work hard and make sure that mentally he is in the right place.” Panesar’s struggles in the first half of the year go back to a frustrating tour of New Zealand. “I think he went into that series under-cooked,” says Robinson. “Monty needs to bowl lots of overs and he struggled a bit although the pitches out there didn’t really give him much. He still did a solid job but Monty isn’t looking just to contain. He likes to attack batsmen and ask questions of them.” The stats back up Robinson’s belief that Panesar’s game has moved on since his own move south from Northampton. His 126 Test wickets between 2006-10 came at 34.37. In nine Tests as a Sussex player he has brought that down to 31.81 with a more frugal economy rate (2.41 compared to 2.87) and a better strike rate. “In his first season with us he had very expectations of himself and I remember a couple of games when he expected to bowl sides out and didn’t,” says Robinson. “He does put himself under pressure and as a coach you have to understand him as an individual, embrace who he is and what type of bowler he is. Him and Swann are the two best finger spinners in the world and it would be great to see them bowling in tandem against Australia. That’s Andy Flower’s call and our job at Sussex is to make sure Monty is ready if he gets the chance. I’m sure he will be.”

“You can’t cheat the game and to get back to what he wants to be he knows he has to work hard and make sure that mentally he is in the right place.” - Mark Robinson

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Paul Weaver on how Sussex’s Matt Prior turned himself into one of the key members of a successful England side

ook at Matt Prior’s beard for a moment. It is a thing of magnificence, one of the finest pieces of shrubbery in all sport. Whole battalions of hair have deserted the top of his head and set up camp around his chin. Graeme Swann says it is the finest beard in the world and that it makes him go weak at the knees. Recently, the growth has become fuller, more sure of itself. It even has, says Prior, its own Twitter account. The beard, replacing the stubble, earrings and blond highlights of his youth, reflects its owner’s transformation from cocksureness to a deeper, more profound level of self-confidence. For this is now one of the world’s leading cricketers in his prime. Along with Jimmy Anderson, Swann and Alastair Cook, he is one of the most important members of a very professional and successful England side. He is the best wicketkeeper-batsman in the world. But the contribution made by England’s Player of the Year and new vice-captain is much more than the sum of his runs, catches and stumpings. He is the essence of the side’s competitive spirit. Former captain Andrew Strauss describes him as “the fulcrum” of the side. Peter Moores, his old Sussex and England coach, says he is “the driver of the team”. Prior regards himself as the side’s energy-giver, and likens his multi-faceted role to being the drummer of the band. To his team-mates he is simply ‘Cheese’, as in Big Cheese.

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Those of us who live in Sussex have been aware of Prior for some time, for he first blipped on our radar 20 years ago. But even we weren’t there at the very beginning. What other cricketer has shown his potential at the age of … zero? His mother, Terri, recalls the baby Matthew being born with “fists clenched and a steely determination in his eye. My thoughts of a sensitive artist or musician in the family were quickly shattered.” At the age of four or five the little boy was imploring Terri to play tennis with him. “C’mon Mum,” he once said, memorably, “You be Mac and I’ll be Roe.” When he made his competitive debut, in his first sports day at junior school, it was in the Under 6s 60-yard dash; he not only won but broke the school record that had stood for 11 years. His family moved to England from South Africa when he was 11. He was small, even for his age, perfectly attired and the proud owner of a dodgy haircut and a squeaky South African accent. His good friend Carl Hopkinson, now on the Sussex coaching staff, remembers him as “a geek”. But his South African background had given him a strong competitive edge, as well as a precocious ability to play off the back foot. At 14 he told John Spencer, the former Sussex player who was then his coach at Brighton College, that his ambition was to play for England and help reclaim the Ashes. He was already a stylish batsman, good enough to score an unbeaten double century for the college on a tour of India. He was also an energetic cover fielder who fancied himself as ‘death’ bowler. The Sussex coaching staff, impressed by reports, invited Prior into the senior players’ nets when he was 16.

Prior regards himself as the side’s energy-giver, and likens his multi-faceted role to being the drummer of the band. To his team-mates he is simply ‘Cheese’, as in Big Cheese. Jason Lewry remembers him “strutting” to the crease. Lewry plucked out his middle stump first ball. “Alright, I’ll give you that one,” squeaked the tiny youngster, returning the ball and banging the stump back into place with his bat handle. He kept everything out after that. He joined the Sussex staff as soon as he left school. His first room-mate was the current coach, Mark Robinson, who says: “He reminded me a lot of Darren Gough when he started, in terms of outward confidence and almost refusing to back down to seniority, and wanting everyone to know that he was here and was not just going to keep quiet in a corner.” At the beginning of the 2001 season, when he was just 19, Moores plunged him into the first team. Andy Bichel, a typically aggressive Aussie fast bowler, anxious to impress on his home debut for Worcestershire, decided to test the youngster with an early bouncer. Prior pulled it to the boundary. “He then marched down the wicket as if to ask Bichel ‘Is that all you’ve got?’ ” recalls Moores. It was Moores who handed Prior his England debut six years later and the player responded by becoming the first England wicketkeeper to score a century on debut. These, then, were the more than quiet beginnings of one of today’s outstanding players, a noisy, driven, hyperactive, Duracell advertisement of a cricketer. >>

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Matt Prior in typically aggressive mode during the first Investec Test at Trent Bridge

>> What has happened since is better known, how he was dropped by England in 2008 but worked frenetically with Bruce French to improve his keeping and force is way back into the side. How he starred in the Ashes victories of 2009 and 2010-11. How, at the SCG, he scored the fastest Ashes century by an Englishman since Ian Botham’s innings at Old Trafford in the stirring summer of 1981. How he saved a series defeat in New Zealand recently with an heroic and unbeaten century. In Sussex, meanwhile, few of us ever thought that he could surpass Jim Parks as the county’s most famous wicketkeeper-batsman. But he has. Or perhaps he should be described as a batsmanwicketkeeper, for these days a wicketkeeper must bat in the top seven. Prior, who has averaged more than 50 for England in the past two years, as a magnificent counter-puncher, could easily bat higher than that, and often has.

His greatest triumph, though, was to win over the England players who were not quite sure of him. Strauss admits that when he first encountered him, in a county match at Hove, he was put off by the upturned collar, the diamond earring and the constant sledging. Prior was told by a couple of England players that they didn’t care for show ponies. But they didn’t realise that the player’s intense pride in his appearance disguised the most selfless of cricketers. Now Strauss describes him as the ultimate team man. This is not only the keeper of England’s wicket but also the keeper of its team spirit, its flame. The keeper, too, of one of English cricket’s most famous beards since WG Grace lost his razor. Paul Weaver writes on cricket for The Guardian

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MEET THE SUSSEX SQUAD Adam Matthews with the introductions. ED JOYCE

The Irish left-hander was named as Sussex’s new captain in October 2012. Last season he topped the LV=CC season averages scoring 829 runs at 39.48 with a high score of 108 in the draw against Worcestershire at New Road. Made his debut for the County in 2009.

CHRIS NASH

Cuckfield-born Nash signed a new two-year extension to his contract in November of 2012 which will see him remain at Hove until at least the end of the 2016 season, following his appointment as vice-captain. He made his first-class debut for Sussex in 2002 and has made over 10,000 career runs for the County and was named in the PCA Team of the Year at the conclusion of the 2012 season.

RORY HAMILTON-BROWN

The 25 year-old all-rounder returned to his former county last September when he signed a threeyear deal at Hove following his release from Surrey. He originally developed through the Surrey youth system but spent two seasons at Sussex in 2008 and 2009, winning both the t20 and Pro40 competitions in 2009. He also played for the Sharks in the Champions League but moved to the Oval shortly afterwards when the lure of captaincy proved too good to turn down.

BEN BROWN

The Crawley-born wicketkeeper-batsman signed a new two-year extension to his contract that will keep him at Hove until at least the end of the 2014 season. A product of the Sussex Youth and Academy set-up, he played 14 first-class matches during the 2012 season, scoring over 500 runs as well as taking 38 catches behind the stumps. He also represented England, along with Chris Nash, in the Hong Kong Sixes tournament.

CHRIS LIDDLE

Sussex’s most consistent bowler in one-day cricket over the past two seasons, Liddle has really kicked on to become the Sharks’ strike bowler in the 20 and 40 over formats. He topped the averages last season in the Friends Life t20 taking 17 wickets, and a best performance of 5 for 17 against Middlesex. He played for Dhaka Gladiators in the Bangladesh Premier League earlier this year.

JAMES ANYON

It proved to be yet another fruitful year for the former Warwickshire man as his improved pace yielded 42 wickets in the LV=County Championship in 2012, including a stunning haul of 5 for 36 >>

www.sussexcricket.co.uk >> in the ten-wicket win over Lancashire at Liverpool, the County of his birth. He played in all but one of Sussex’s four-day games with his other fivewicket haul coming against Surrey at the Kia Oval

JOE GATTING

It was the shorter format of the game that the Brighton-born batsman proved the most valuable in 2012 as he averaged 32.75 across the ten games in which he played. His best performance came in the 19-run win over Essex at Hove, in which he hit an unbeaten 45 from only 22 balls. He has spent the winter in Australia working on his game and has been at the County since the age of 15, including three seasons as a professional footballer with Brighton & Hove Albion.

LEWIS HATCHETT

One of the most local members in the squad, having been born in nearby Shoreham, the left-arm seamer was restricted to mainly 2nd XI appearances where he regularly impressed. He did get his chance in the LV=County Championship match with Somerset in September when he took 3 for 25 in the first innings, and followed it up with four in the match at Durham.

LUKE WELLS

2012 was another exciting season for the young and fluent left-hander as he finished behind only the prolific opening partnership of Joyce and Nash in the LV=County Championship averages. His 713 runs came at 37.52 and the son of former Sussex and England man Alan Wells took a particular liking to the bowling of rivals Surrey as he hit centuries in both matches, at the Kia Oval and Horsham.

LUKE WRIGHT

His early season may have been dogged by both injury and illness but Wright hit back in style for Sussex in 2012 and was one of only two players – Chris Nash being the other – to hit over 300 runs in the Friends Life t20 tournament. His scintillating oneday form wasn’t only restricted to the shortest format as he averaged 59.71 – including three centuries – as the Sharks reached the semi-finals of the Clydesdale Bank 40. Last winter he played in the Big Bash and

the Bangladesh Premier League whilst also cementing his place in the England t20 side.

MONTY PANESAR

Playing in all but one of Sussex’s Championship matches, Panesar again broke the 50-wicket barrier in 2012, claiming 53 scalps at an average of 23.15, with a best of 7 for 60 in the first innings of the drawn match against Somerset at Taunton. He also took six wickets in the second innings, handing him match figures of 13 for 137. It was this kind of consistent form that again persuaded the England selectors to come calling, with him being selected for the tour of India where he took 17 wickets.

CHRIS JORDAN

Barbados-born but English-qualified,bowling allrounder Jordan signed a two-year contract with Sussex in December 2012 following his release by Surrey at the end of last season. He bowls genuinely quick and his all-round ability can see him bat strongly down the order and even field in the slips. He played for Barbados during the winter and took match figures of 9 for 58 in his final first-class match there in February.

MATT MACHAN

The 22 year-old left-hander finally announced himself on the 1st XI stage early last season with a stunning unbeaten 126 against the Unicorns in the CB40 victory at Hove. He went on to play a further three matches in the tournament, along with three appearances in the Friends Life t20 as well as an outing in Sussex’s final Championship match of the season at Durham. Born in Brighton but with Scottish heritage through his mother, he was selected for an informal tour of South Africa with Scotland in October and had his qualification confirmed earlier this yearand he has got further opportunities with the Scots this season.

MICHAEL YARDY

In the season when Yardy relinquished the captaincy at Hove in two formats of the game, his top score

www.sussexcricket.co.uk with the bat came in the second outing in the County Championshipwith a superb innings of 110 against Lancashire at Liverpool which helped to set up the ten-wicket victory against the reigning champions. He retained the captaincy in the Friends Life t20, leading the Sharks to their second Finals Day in four seasons and was also named the 1st XI Fielder of the Year, with his 34 catches across all formats rivalling numbers taken by wicketkeepers around the county circuit.

STEVE MAGOFFIN

Originally signed as Sussex’s overseas player for only the early part of the 2012 summer, his blistering form earned him a deal until the end of season and 2013. He took 57 wickets in the LV=County Championship Division One last season at an average of only slightly over 20, his best of 7 for 34 coming on his debut at Lancashire in April. He also made some vital contributions with the bat, scoring 363 runs at an average of 22.68. The 33-year-old also has experience in England with Surrey and Worcestershire.

WILL BEER

Having forced himself into Sussex’s one-day line-up during 2012, the 24 year old Crawley-born legspinner signed a new two-year deal with the county which ties him to Sussex until the end of the 2014 season. His best haul came in the crucial CB40 clash with Warwickshire Bears under the floodlights and in front of the cameras at Hove when he 3 for 27 as he helped Sussex defend 199. He also kept his nerve, with the bat this time in the Friends Life t20 clash at Essex Eagles, again televised, as he and Ben Brown ensured that the Sharks crept over the line with a ball to spare in a nail-biting affair at Chelmsford.

HARRY FINCH

The 18 year-old all-rounder bowls right-arm medium-fast and hails from Hastings, beginning his Sussex career playing for the Under-13 team. He has recently represented England Under-19s and made his List A debut for the Sharks in the YB40 match against the Netherlands in May which was eventually abandoned due to rain. Signed a Junior Professional Contract in March.

CALLUM JACKSON

A right-handed wicketkeeper-batsman from Eastbourne who has represented Sussex from the Under-13s County Age Group squad. He made his first team debut in 2011 in the University Match with Leeds/Bradford MCCU and toured South Africa with England Under-19s in the early part of this year. With Brown recovering from a broken finger, Jackson is likely to get his first-class debut in this fixture.

ANDY MILLER

The right-armer joined the Sussex ranks shortly before the start of the season following a successful trial in which he went on the pre-season tour of Dubai with the squad. He made his first-class debut for Sussex in the LV=CC match against his former County Warwickshire in early May and also made his first List A appearance in the Netherlands as the Sharks faced the Dutch in the YB40.

MICHAEL RIPPON

An unknown quantity when drafted into Sussex’s Friends Life t20 campaign, the South African-born left-arm Chinaman bowler left the Kent Spitfires batsmen in no doubt of his ability when he ripped through their line-up on debut at Hove. He claimed ahaul of 4 for 23 on the day he penned an 18-month deal with the county.

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WE’VE MET BEFORE This is the 34th match between Sussex and Australia and down the years the fixture has produced some remarkable cricket. Here are some of the memorable games from the past. 1878

Australia won by 7 wickets. Sussex made just 80 and 47 and Australia 75, which included a stand of 37 for their last wicket. In heavy rain the tourists knocked off their target of 53 to win the first meeting between the sides.

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Drawn. The game should have taken place the previous week but Australia played England at the Oval instead. Surrey sent Sussex a cheque for £100 as recompense. Sussex scored 107 and 156-2, Australia 154.

1882

Australia won by an innings and 355 runs. At the time, Australia’s first innings 643 was their highest total in a first-class match in England. G.E. Palmer took a hat-trick in Sussex’s first innings score of 95. They only fared slightly better in their second dig, with 193.

1884

Drawn. Sussex’s first innings 396 set a new record for the highest score by a county against Australia. Harry Phillips made 111, his only firstclass hundred for Sussex in a career spanning 23 years, and a collection for him on the ground after the first day raised 22 guineas (£23.10 in today’s money!) Lob bowler W.A. Humphreys took a hat-trick when Australia followed on but accurate bowling thwarted Sussex’s attempts to score 58 in 52 minutes for victory.

1888

Australia won by 6 wickets. C.B. Fry and Ranjitsinhji (pictured) put on 123 in 70 minutes for Sussex’s second wicket but Australia reached their target of 118 in two hours with 20 minutes to spare. Hugh Trumble took 10 wickets for the tourists.

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Australia won by an innings and 35 runs. In front of a 15,000 second-day crowd the tourists scored 560 with Kippax making 250 and Joe Darling 117. For Sussex, ‘Chuck’ FleetwoodSmith took ten wickets but they were bowled out for 221 in their second innings.

1938

Drawn. Victor Trumper (pictured) made an undefeated 300 and a new record score in England by an Australian. C.B. Fry (181) and Ernest Killick (106) made centuries for Sussex who scored 414 and 143 for 4 with Australia making 626 for 4 declared in reply. Glorious weather attracted record crowds to Hove.

1902

Drawn. A sixth wicket stand of 428 by Monty Noble (284) and Warwick Armstrong (172*) remains a record in England and was a world record at the time. Sussex followed on but Killick made two half-centuries and the draw was secured.

1909

Australia won by 1 wicket. A dropped catch denied Sussex a famous win. Needing 119 for victory, Australia lost wickets regularly and still needed 19 when their last pair came together. With two needed, Robert Relf put down a difficult slip chance and the winning runs were scored off the next ball. Relf’s 45 in Sussex’s first innings was the top score in the match.

1930

Drawn. Alan Kippax became the second Australian to make a century in both innings against Sussex while Tate responded with nine wickets. His 6 for 82 put Australia under pressure in their first innings, before Kippax helped the last three wickets add 288 runs.

Drawn. Hugh Bartlett scored a sensational 157 including 100 in 57 minutes to win him the Walter Lawrence Trophy for the fastest hundred of the season. In a high-scoring game Sussex’s target for victory was 184 in 50 minutes and they had to settle for a draw.

1948

Australia won by an innings and 325 runs. ‘The Invincibles’, including Arthur Morris (184), Don Bradman (109) and a young Neil Harvey (100*), crushed Sussex inside two days. The county could not cope with Ray Lindwall’s pace as he picked up 11 wickets as Sussex made 86 and 138 either side of 549 for 5 declared by Australia.

1953

Drawn. Sussex clung on for the draw with their last pair Ted James and Rupert Webb at the crease. Chasing 367 to win, they had slumped to 76 for 5 before James Langridge dug in for 46 in what was his last first-class appearance. For Australia, Harvey (137*) and Lindsay Hassett (108*) put on 240 for the second wicket before the declaration. Colin McDonald made 106 in their first innings.

1964

Australia won by 63 runs. Set 268 in just under four hours, Sussex were bowled out for 204. Earlier, Ted Dexter had made a sparkling 124 in their first innings whilst Mike Griffiths contributed two half-centuries. Neil Hawke took eight wickets in the match for the tourists. >>

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Sussex won by 5 wickets. Only the county’s second win over Australia that they achieved amidst much celebration with 16 balls to spare. Keith Stackpole’s 154 included a century before lunch on the final day before Sussex were set 261 in three hours. For the second time in the match, Geoff Greenidge (99 and 125*) and Peter Graves posted a century stand for the first wicket while Tony Greig’s 36 from 18 balls gave the chase precious momentum including three sixes in an over from Jeff Hammond.

1981

Australia won by 7 wickets. Sussex aroused controversy by fielding seven uncapped players and they were beaten midway through the final day. Kim Hughes made two half-centuries for Australia while Sussex opener Jerry Heath had to retire hurt on six after being struck on the head by a ball from Rodney Hogg. He returned at the fall of the ninth wicket to make 56 in a stand of 88 in an hour with wicketkeeper Terry Head.

1985

Drawn. Imran Khan and Garth Le Roux, Sussex’s last pair, survived 28 balls to stave off defeat. For Australia, Dave Gilbert – later to become Sussex’s CEO – took 4 for 97 in the county’s response of 261 to Australia’s 321. David Boon and Greg Ritchie scored hundreds for Australia whose declaration left Sussex needing 335. The heroics of their overseas pair, coupled with stoppages for rain and bad light, saved the county.

Steve Waugh on his way to a century in 1985

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Richard Montgomerie saluted the crowd after his hundred in 2001

2009

Drawn. Sussex agreed to a 12-a-side match to enable Australia to get more practice ahead of the first Test thus depriving the fixture of first-class status. The tourists looked rusty throughout and nearly lost when Carl Hopkinson led a brilliant Sussex response to a target of 418 on the final day. Dropped on 69, he added 81 in 13 overs with Luke Wright leaving Sussex needing 75 off ten overs. Hopkinson was out for 115 – the highest

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WIN SOME, LOSE SOME … 23 Sussex players have played in Ashes Tests with mixed fortunes, as Bruce Talbot discovered

hen Matt Prior began his own personal love affair with Ashes cricket back in 2009 he also ended a long drought since the last Sussex player faced Australia. Prior has been fortunate enough to be part of two successful Ashes teams and will play a big role this summer in England’s bid for the hattrick. Other Sussex players have been less successful in matches against the Australians. Before Prior, Sussex’s last Ashes participant was Paul Parker who played at the Oval in 1981. Parker endured a 13-ball duck and then made 13 in the second innings as the game was drawn. He never played for England again. Before the current series began, Prior had played 10 Tests against Australia. If he maintains his current record, by the end of the series in Australia during the winter he will have doubled that number and equal the 20 Tests played by two Sussex legends of the past, Maurice Tate and John Snow. They are two of the five Sussex names that stand out among those who have battled for the urn. The late Tony Greig’s appearances included four as captain in the 1970s, and Ted Dexter also played in 20 or more Ashes Tests while all of C.B. Fry’s 18 England appearances were against Australia. So who was the best? Well, if Prior wins four successive Ashes series he will stand at the top but Snow and Tate, from different eras of course, are not far behind. Tate, as we discover elsewhere in this programme, took 83 Australian wickets – the

same as Snow. Snow took his wickets at a better average of 25.61 compared to 30.60 but Tate can boast the best individual performances. Between 1924-30 he played in 20 consecutive Ashes Tests, following in the footsteps of his father Fred who played against Australia in 1902. On the 1924-25 tour Tate took 38 wickets, a series record which stood for 29 years before it was beaten by Alec Bedser who bagged 39 scalps in 1953 when England famously regained the urn during the Coronation summer. Sydney, in particular brought the best out in ‘Chub’. Two Tests were played there during that series and Tate took 20 wickets. He was a wholehearted cricketer who endeared himself to Australian audiences. Four decades later, Snow also took a liking for Sydney. It was there that he took his Test best in 1971 of 7 for 40 during a series when he finished with 31 victims. That effort, combined with an aggregate of more than 1,300 runs by Geoff Boycott and John Edrich, helped Raymond Illingworth’s team become the first to win on Australian soil since the Bodyline tour in 193233. England clinched the series 2-0 by winning an extraordinary seventh Test (an extra match was played when the Melbourne game was completely washed out). During the game Illingworth took his players off following an incident involving Sussex’s occasionally combustible fast man. England had been dismissed for 184 on a damp pitch and the hosts had got their noses in front when Snow was brought back to bowl at their No.9 Terry Jenner.

www.sussexcricket.co.uk In his biography, Cricket Rebel, Snow recalled: “Terry was no mug with the bat so I decided to bowl him a shortish delivery to remind him he couldn’t safely go onto the front foot. It was not a bouncer and wouldn’t have got above rib high if Terry hadn’t ducked. The ball caught him on the head and down he went. Later, in hospital, he admitted it was his fault.” Umpire Lou Rowan had a different view. England had been unhappy with his umpiring earlier in the series and just as Snow was about to resume the attack, after Jenner had been led off, he was warned by Rowan for intimidatory bowling. “I was upset,” said Snow. “I didn’t like hitting people – even Australians. The crowd had settled down when Rowan chose to make his stand.” Illingworth got involved and when Snow walked back to his mark to finish the over a few beer cans were lobbed over from the stands. Illingworth had them cleared but when he went to field on the boundary edge after completing his over a spectator grabbed Snow’s shirt and started tugging him back towards the fence. “I thought about striking out until I realised he was drunk. In any case it would have been a stupid thing to do. “Cans and bottles were flying at me from all directions and I managed to get out of range. Bob Willis came over and told me Ray was taking us off. I needed no second invitation.” England won the Test but Snow finished it in hospital. Diving in the outfield, he crashed into the picket fence and damaged his finger. It was a painful end to what was still one of the most satisfying periods of his England career. Of the Sussex batsmen to face Australia few can boast truly outstanding records. Dexter only scored two hundreds between 1959-68 and Fry one in 13 years of combat starting in 1899. Prior, however, seems intent on writing a new chapter in the long history of Sussex’s Ashes combatants who now number 23 including his team-mate Monty Panesar. And whatever happens this summer, it’s unlikely that Alistair Cook will have to lead his players off the field at any stage!

Ashes hero: John Snow helped bowl England to victory in Australia in 1970-71

SUSSEX PLAYERS IN THE ASHES G. Bean (3) H.R.J. Charlwood (2) E.R. Dexter (19) K.S. Duleepsinhji (4) C.B. Fry (15) A.E.R. Gilligan (5) A.W. Greig (21) V.W.C. Jupp (2) J. Lillywhite Jnr (2) W. Newham (1) A.S.M. Oakman (2) P.W.G. Parker (1) M.S. Panesar (1) M.J. Prior (10) J.M. Parks (10) K.S. Ranjitsinhji (15) A.E. Relf (3) D.S. Sheppard (9) J.A. Snow (20) F.W. Tate (1) M.W. Tate (20) J. Vine (2) R.A. Young (2)

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Tate and the Ashes One Sussex family was responsible for possibly the greatest highs and lows in Ashes history, as Justin Parkinson recalls.

ussex’s Fred Tate had long seemed destined for a quiet life of yeoman service to the county. But, back in 1902, England took a punt on the portly 35-yearold for the fourth Test at Old Trafford. The home side needed to win to square the series. If Australia prevailed, the Ashes were theirs. Fred was spared the worst treatment as the legendary Victor Trumper scored a hundred before lunch. The weather a constant source uncertainty, England conceded a slight first innings lead. When they batted again, Australia collapsed to just 10-3. It was all to play for. A little while later right-hander Syd Gregory scored a single to ensure his left-handed skipper, Joe Darling, would face the last ball of the over. Rather than move specialist deep square leg Lionel Palairet all the way across the ground for just one ball, England captain Archie MacLaren took Fred out of slip. Fred, who always stood at slip, wandered

reluctantly into position. He must have wished he hadn’t as Darling smacked the next ball straight in his direction. Tate, sticking out his arms forlornly, dropped it. Embarrassment turned to horror as Darling smacked his way to 37, an important innings in a tight match. Still, Australia only made 86, leaving England 124 to win. Things went awry, as Tate’s nervous teammates struggled to 116-9. The Sussex man came in at number 11 with eight runs needed. He made four off his first ball but, off the fourth ball of the over, took a swipe and was clean bowled by a superb yorker from left-armer Jack Saunders. Australia had won one of the most sensational Tests in history by three runs. Spectators unfairly booed Tate. In the dressing room he cried inconsolably. However, on the train home he declared: “I’ve got a little kid at home who’ll make it up for me.” He was right. From the single biggest personal

www.sussexcricket.co.uk disaster in cricketing history came one of the most glorious England careers imaginable. The little kid was seven-year-old Maurice Tate. Despite his father’s prediction, the youngster showed little brilliance at first, starting as a fairly ordinary off-spinner – in fact, a lesser one than Fred. But, at the age of 27, in 1922, he decided to change to bowling medium-fast. Within two years he was the world’s best bowler. In his debut Ashes of 1924-5, Tate broke the record for the number of wickets in a series, taking 38. Sadly England, captained by Sussex’s Arthur Gilligan, lost 4-1. Next time round, in 1926, Tate again put in hundreds of overs, helping keep England in the rain-ravaged series. The first four matches were drawn. In the fifth, at the Oval, as Leicestershire’s George Geary prepared to bowl to last man Arthur Mailey, Tate whispered in his ear: “Give him a yorker.” He did. The ball, as good as that faced by poor Fred in 1902, smashed into the stumps. England won back the Ashes after 14 years. Fred was thrilled. England retained the Ashes in 1928-9 by the huge margin of 4-1. Tate didn’t take as many wickets as before, but still put in the work, even claiming a “miracle” catch at a decisive moment. But, during the first match, he said something he came to regret. Having dismissed debutant Don Bradman in the first innings for 18, he watched as left-arm spinner Jack White got him for one in the second. “Oy, Whitey, that’s my rabbit,” he joked. Bradman never forgot. In Tate’s final Ashes series, of 1930, the dominance of Bradman was established, with a triple hundred and two doubles. Tate was outdone. England lost. Yet, now 37, Tate was still fancied for a place on the 19323 series.

However, a meeting took place at Lord’s in the summer of 1932, in which he was bizarrely told to “try harder”. He was eventually picked for the tour but, hurt by this remark, and nearing exhaustion, Tate suffered a nervous breakdown. He withdrew from the squad but then had a change of heart and asked for his place back. Several weeks later the MCC agreed. Tate needn’t have bothered going. England skipper Douglas Jardine was fixated by extreme pace and Tate spent the infamous Bodyline series as a spectator. Tate’s second son, Michael, was born while he was on his way to Australia. On his return, a photograph of the bowler holding the baby in his arms for the first time was splashed across the Daily Mirror. Tate was a superstar. He was no longer wanted for England, but the public loved him. It was a far cry from 1902. Maurice had made it up for Fred – and then some. Justin Parkinson’s biography of Maurice Tate, Then Came Massacre, RRP £17.99, is available in the Sussex shop, all good bookshops and online. Father and son: Fred and Maurice, pictured here aged 6, both played for England with varying degrees of success

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A WINDOW ON THE PAST Sussex Museum showcases our links with Australia The Australia exhibition in the Sussex Cricket Museum includes these items from the 1947 tour

ihe exhibitions in the Sussex Cricket Museum this season have a strong Australian theme, featuring Sussex and Australian players and artefacts going back to the 19th century - and indeed the first Aboriginal tour of England in 1867. In the middle room there is a wonderful collection of Arthur Smallwood original photographs of the Australians at Hove in 1968, 1972 and 1975. Quite apart from the superb photography it is a great social study of how Hove, the people and the ground have evolved over the last 40-45 years. Oh for my lost youth! Sussex has such a strong link with Australia going right back to 1870’s when Aussie Charlie Brown played a couple of seasons for Sussex, closely followed by Billy Murdoch from 1893-99. In more recent times the club has secured the services of Tony Dodemaide, the prolific Michael Bevan, Michael Di Venuto, Duncan Spencer, Damian Wright and of course Steve Magoffin. Other more tenuous links include Kepler Wessels, the Australian who went on to play for South Africa, and David Gilbert, who played in an Ashes Test and was later Sussex’s Chief Executive.

The third room at the rear of the Museum sees a celebration of two trophy anniversaries. The 1963 first Gillette Cup and the 2003 County Championship were won 50 years and 10 years ago respectively. The success of the county’s women’s team in 2003 is also featured. For visitors who are not familiar with Hove and the Sussex Cricket Museum please do come along and see us, I assure you is is well worth a visit. Admission is a nominal £2 and we are open an hour before play starts plus lunch and tea and God forbid any rain breaks on all three days. The Museum is situated at the southern end of the main pavilion building. For further information you can also visit our website at www.sussexcricketworld.com Finally, if you like to support us, you can become a friend of the Sussex Cricket World for a minimum donation of £15 per year or a Patron for £125 per year. All details on the website. Enjoy your visit to the Sussex Cricket Museum Richard J Barrow (Chairman)

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MEMORIES OF THE PAST

ussex supporter Nicholas Sharp has a vast library of artefacts and images dating back to the formation of the club back in 1839 relating to this week’s opponents. Nick explained: “The 1909 and 1912 postcards were made by T.W.S. Wiles of 33 George Street, Hove. Thomas Walter Wiles was a prolific postcard publisher who produced cards of local interest, including cricket, between 1909 and 1914. “The 1909 one depicts the crowd, wearing very different apparel to these days, and the players on the field during the match that took place at Hove three years later. “The photo of Billy Murdoch was a cabinet picture taken by Blackall of 9 Magdalen Street, Oxford. “Also shown are a completed scorecard of the 1909 match and the teams lining up for the 1948 fixture, with Maurice Tate to the right of Don Bradman.”

SCCC V Australia 1912. Sussex Team.

More artefacts, memorabilia and items of interest showcasing the strong links between Sussex and Australia are on display in the Sussex Cricket Museum, next to the Spen Cama Pavilion.

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