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Welcome to Hove Contents

Welcome one and all to another full house at the PROBIZ County Ground as we welcome the Indian tourists to our great ground and lovely seaside city. Without fail, all the touring teams love coming to Hove – be it for the sea air, relaxed atmosphere, or indeed the excellent knowledgeable crowds we get.

With 25,000 packed in over four days for the Aussies in 2009, a win over Bangladesh in 2010 in front of over 2,000, and now a full house of 7,000 today the good people of Sussex have once again been a credit to the club by coming out in force in the hope of seeing the ‘Little Master’ Tendulkar on his farewell tour (well, maybe . . . I would not bet on no return !), and the brutal Sehwag bashing the ball into the boards – or nicking off for nought!

And of course we have our wonderful Indian heritage as a county with the world famous “Three Princes” of Duleepsinhji, Ranjitsinji, and the Nawab of Pataudi who we were lucky enough to meet in Delhi during our 2009 Champions League campaign.

And that heritage is today celebrated in our great new museum in the lower floor of the Pavilion. It will be open today until just after the end of the lunch session so please pop along and have a look around. The Museum is a great charity aiming to preserve the history and traditions of Sussex Cricket and capture the imagination of a new generation, so any support you can give (financial would be lovely!) is much appreciated – and it can all be gift aided!

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“He doesn’t look much, he won’t last long” Tony Cottey remembers his first encounter with the great Sachin Tendulkar It was August 16th 1990. I actually remember it very well. We had all been told about this 17 year old wonder kid who was making his first tour to England having only played 26 first class games, with nine of those being Test matches.

That particular day, he trotted out onto the field at St Helens, Swansea to join Mohammad Azharuddin as Glamorgan took on the touring Indians. Fielding at slip, I remember saying to Matt Maynard standing next to me: “He doesn’t look much – he won’t last long.”

I was kind of half right because, after a nervy start, he went on to make 68 before being snaffled by yours truly off the bowling of Robert Croft. So in terms of that particular match, I wasn’t that far off the mark, but if I tell you that since then that 17 year-old kid has gone on to play a further 254 first class matches, a total of 177 Tests, scoring 14,692 Test runs and not to mention his 18,111 one-day international runs, then last long he most certainly has. In case you haven’t worked it out yet, I’m talking about the living legend that is Sachin Tendulkar.

One of the nice things about being retired is being able to relax and look back on happy memories in the game, such as realising that I once actually took the field against players of his calibre, and to actually appreciate that I once caught the genius that was to become Tendulkar is a particularly happy recollection.

Not such a happy memory though was remembering that when I batted I was out lbw to Kapil Dev for a duck – oh well, rough with the smooth and all that!

The reason for this trip down memory lane, remembering my first encounter with the “Little Master”, is because you will have your own opportunity for running into, surely – after Don Bradman – the greatest batsman of all time today. I can’t wait to welcome what most observers believe to be the No.1 ranked team in the world and will be fascinated to see how Sussex deal with them in a match situation.

Star in the making: Sachin Tendulkar in action during his first tour of England in 1990 But another reason that I’m delighted to see the Indians at Hove is that it will also mean a reunion with a player with whom I became a team mate in just my fourth County Championship match, Ravi Shastri.

Now most people will now know Ravi as a suave TV cricket commentator. Well let me tell you that whilst he was always suave he was also one hell of a cricketer. He began his career as a slow left-armer, but ended it as very much a batsman who could bowl. The quizzers and stattos amongst you will also know that Ravi hit the headlines when he took to the crease against Baroda playing for Bombay in January 1985 and left it after hitting six sixes in a single over, emulating the one and only Garry Sobers. Ravi finished his career having played 80 Tests for India scoring nearly 4,000 runs and taking 151 wickets.

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Simply the best The Guardian’s Paul Weaver profiles Sachin Tendulkar, the best batsman of his generation, as his final tour of England reaches its climax

Tendulkar achieved one of the biggest ambitions of his long career when he helped India win the World Cup Top The Little Master in action during this year’s World Cup final against Sri Lanka

07 The World Cup had been won and Sachin Tendulkar was being carried shoulder-high through the bedlam of the Wankhede Stadium when the comment was made.

It came from Virat Kohli, the new and slender column that has recently been brought in to bolster the many crumbling pillars in India’s cricket. “Well,” he said, “Sachin has carried India on his shoulders for 21 years, so it was the least we could do.”

It was a nice line from the sorcerer’s apprentice. And all the nicer because it was made with a young man’s awe and wonder. This was no wisecrack from an old pro.

Even amid the ruins of India’s recent Test series in England, and through the wounds of his own personal failures, Tendulkar remained remarkably undimmed, untarnished.

His record is so astonishing, his CV so brim-full of runs and records that he is impervious to transient blemishes. Even among great players he is a great, a batsman who would be considered for inclusion in an all-time world XI. The man known as the Little Master looked neither as England steamrollered their way to the top of the world rankings this summer. The girth had swollen and the runs had slimmed down a size. But the legend is still as strong as ever.

You may have preferred to watch Brian Lara or, within the India team, Virender Sehwag, with his higher back-lift and more violent intent. Other contemporaries, such as Steve Waugh and Jacques Kallis, will be remembered as magnificent players. But Tendulkar will go down as the greatest batsman of his generation, defined not only by his supreme skills but the span of over two decades in which they operated.

Allan Donald, the great South Africa fast bowler, saw that greatness from closer range than most of us.

“He is No. 1 in my book - the best player I have ever had the privilege of bowling to. There’s Steve Waugh and there’s Brian Lara, who was wonderful in 1995, but Tendulkar is a class above, consistently special.

“Everything about him is just so exceptional. He is wonderful technically and he has everything - class, speed, all the shots, and he is cool under pressure.

“Cricketers always talk about his amazing balance, even the Aussies. I’ve seen tapes of Sunil Gavaskar and if you split the screen between him and Tendulkar they look virtually identical. I have never seen a man with such immaculate balance - it is freakish.”

It is not just his contemporaries who lined up to praise Tendulkar. The greatest batsman of them all, Sir

Donald Bradman, thought he was looking at a mirrorimage. “He reminds me of myself,” he said, and that was a compliment to both men.

The greatest run-scorer in international cricket made his Test debut for India against Pakistan in 1989, when he was just 16, becoming India’s youngest player.

He went in to bat against a useful trio of fast bowlers called Imran Khan, Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram in Karachi.

He went into this summer’s series in England looking for a century to make him the first batsman to score 100 international hundreds. “I am not thinking or records,” he said throughout the tour.” But everybody else was.

It should have happened at Lord’s, the home of cricket, in the 2000th Test of all time. Well, I suppose it should really have happened in adoring home city of Mumbai, the stage set up for that very purpose.

But Lord’s would have been almost as good.

Tendulkar looks equally at home in both forms of the game and established himself as one of the best opening batsmen in 50-over cricket.

Ten months after his 36th birthday he became the first cricketer to score a double hundred in the 39 years of ODI cricket. His unbeaten 200 came from only 147 balls. Even Sehwag would have been proud of that.

After his Test disappointments against England this season Tendulkar will be more determined than ever to make his mark in the coming one-day series. And a determined Tendulkar is one of the greatest forces the game of cricket had ever seen.

This will be his last appearance at Hove. Enjoy him one last time.

TENDULKAR IN ONE-DAY CRICKET One-day internationals: Matches: 453; Runs: 18111; Highest score: 200*; Average: 45.16; Strike rate: 86.32; Hundreds: 48; Fifties: 95.

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Adam Matthews talks to Chris Nash

Q What’s the best thing about playing for Sussex?

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

A Lord’s,eventhougheverybody says it. Just a great place to play, always a great atmosphere even if there’s only a few in the ground.

And of course good food!

Q Who is the best trainer?

A Probably Amjad, he’s done

well as he’s now got a six pack and he didn’t have one before he came here!

Q What are your other interests outside cricket?

A I love playing golf, and I love being down here and spending time by the sea. I like playing a bit of squash from time to time too.

Q Which cricketer do you play like the most?

A I’d like to say SachinTendulkar! Q Who is the worst dancer in the squad on a night out?

But probably somebody like Graeme Swann, as I like to play A Chris Liddle. I don’t really Q What’s the best advice with a smile on my face and have need to say anymore than that. you could give to an He’s Northern and terrible! a bit of a laugh. aspiring cricketer?

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Record breakers!

Sussex pile up the runs to make it eight wins in a row The record book was re-written in our last CB40 game as the Sharks took another step towards the semifinals after an amazing run spree at Horsham against Worcestershire Royals.

Openers Ed Joyce and Joe Gatting both made centuries as Sussex piled up a record 40 overs total of 399 for 4 with their stand of 210 also a new county firstwicket best.

Moeen Ali smashed a career-best 158 off just 92 balls to keep Worcestershire in contention but did not get the necessary support as they fell 80 runs short.

The contest enjoyed by a packed house also set a new record for aggregate runs in a 40-overs game of 718.

Joyce made 120 (74 balls) with ten fours and five sixes while Gatt’s maiden List A hundred (122 off 94 balls) included 14 fours and four sixes.

They also broke the 40 overs Sussex record for the best stand against Worcestershire for any wicket and the best first-wicket partnership in our 40 overs history. Joe’s onslaught included 20 off one over and the runs continued to flow as Lou Vincent hit 71 (43 balls) and Murray Goodwin 27 from 14 as 179 runs were plundered from the last 13 overs and the old 40 overs team record of 386, by Surrey against Glamorgan in 2010, was surpassed. Nine runs came off the last over as we just failed to reach 400.

Ali smashed 20 fours and seven sixes to set a new 40 overs individual highest score for the Royals before he was stumped off skipper Mike Yardy and Sussex were on course for their eighth successive win in the competition.

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Stars of India MS Dhoni (captain)

Virat Kohli

A relatively late starter to international cricket, he didn’t make his ODI debut until the age of 23 but has now scored more than 6,000 one-day runs including seven hundreds.

22-year-old middle-order batsman who made his Test debut in West Indies earlier this year and is seen as the eventual successor to some of India’s batting stars. Has played in 59 ODIs and once in is usually difficult to shift. Normally bats at No.4.

Virender Sehwag Sehwag in full flow is one of the best sights in world cricket and after a disappointing tour so far the 32-year-old vice-captain will be looking to finish the one-day series with a flourish. Has played 236 ODIs since his debut 12 years ago and is approaching 8,000 runs in that format.

Ravichandran Ashwin Improving off-spinner who has played in 11 ODIs since making his debut in 2010 after coming to prominence with some miserly performances for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL.

Rahul Dravid Alongside Tendulakar, the most experienced member of the side.

The 38-year-old has an imperious record in ODIs, scoring 82 fifties and 12 hundreds in 339 games spanning 15 years since his debut in 1996. A class act.

Gautan Gambhir Experienced top-order batsman who has flourished since the setback of being omitted from India’s World Cup squad in 2007.

Aged 29, he has played 114 ODIs.

Above Virat Kohli

Praveen Kumar Has shown an ability to take wickets on unresponsive Indian pitch with an intuitive use of swing and seam. Has played in 59 ODIs.

Amit Mishra Leg-spinner, 28, who became only the sixth Indian bowler to take five wickets on his Test debut in 2008.

He took 13 wickets in the recent one-day series against West Indies.

Munaf Patel Potentially the quickest of the Indian seamers in the squad, Patel has played 65 ODIs since making his debut against England in 2005.

Parthiv Patel Became India’s youngest ever Test wicketkeeper at the age of 17 in 2002 against England. Has been in Dhoni’s shadows since but is a capable gloves-man and useful batsman who averages 25.70 from 23 ODI appearances.

Suresh Raina Should make his 100th ODI appearance during this series, he is currently on 98. Graceful left-handed batsman and now a regular in the side, he is also one of India’s best fielders.

Ishant Sharma Tall bowler with a strong, rhythmic action, Sharma has established himself in the Indian team in all three formats. Has made 64 ODI appearances.

Rohit Sharma Wristy stroke-player who impressed in the one-day series against West Indies in June with two half-centuries after failing to make the World Cup squad. Aged 22, he has played in 66 ODIs since his debut in 2007.

RP Singh Swing bowler who is back in the squad two years after making the last of his 55 ODI appearances in 2009. Called into the squad as a replacement for Zaheer Khan, who returned home with an ankle injury.

Sachin Tendulkar Read Paul Weaver’s profile of India’s greatest ever batsman on pages 6-7

Vinay Kumar Outswing bowler with three ODI appearances including one during the West Indies’ series in June.

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Claim to fame

Bruce Talbot looks back at past Sussex-India meetings and in particular the match when a bespectacled off-spinner got Tendulkar out twice Some of the great names of Indian cricket have graced the County Ground since they first played here in 1911 but it is perhaps an unheralded bespectacled Sussex off-spinner who has the biggest claim to fame in matches between the sides.

Nicky Phillips, who had a ten-year career with Sussex and Durham, got the great Sachin Tendulkar out not once but twice when the ‘Little Master’ played here for India for the first time in 1996.

The match came right at the start of India’s tour and the early-season conditions certainly chilled Indian bones.

At one stage on the first day the mercury dipped to just 7 degrees centigrade and with grey clouds scudding over Hove and threatening rain at any time the weather could not have been more alien for the tourists.

Tendulkar came out to bat after Sussex had made 247 for 4 swathed in six layers including three jumpers – and we’re not talking about the ultralightweight heat-retaining layers players wear these days, rather the old-fashioned cable knit sweaters still much loved on the village green.

He made 85 before being caught in the deep

by Keith Greenfield who himself had a match to remember, scoring what was his career-best at the time in the second innings with an unbeaten 141.

That left India needing 299 to win and Tendulkar opened, scoring 65 before Phillips had him stumped

by Peter Moores.

It was a notable triumph for Phillips, who came from Hastings. But it turned out to be his last season

with Sussex before former county coach Norman Gifford recruited him for Durham in 1997.

He still lives there and plays for Swalwell in the Northumberland League. In fact, a quick Google search last week revealed that he is the club’s leading wicket taker with 39 this season.

It wasn’t until 1946 that the Indians beat Sussex. The first three pre-War meetings saw Sussex win twice.

Joe Vine finished with eight wickets as Sussex won the first meeting in 1911 by ten runs and in 1936 there was an eight-wicket victory after big hundreds for John Langdridge and Alan Melville. James Langridge took 7-47 and Sussex knocked off their target of 70 in 14.2 overs.

India finally won in 1946 after an extraordinary batting display saw their top four – Vijay Merchant (205), Mulvantrai Mankad (105), the Nawab of Pataudi (110) and Nanik Amarnath (106) all make hundreds in a total of 533 for 3 declared.

Sussex followed on 280 behind and George Cox scored an unbeaten 234 but Merchant’s 63 not out guided India to a nine-wicket win.

Sussex won in 1952 helped by seven wickets apiece from Ian Thomson and Dougie Wood before John Langridge made 80 not out in a successful pursuit of 177.

Don Smith scored 145 seven years later but India made 363 for 5 in their second innings to secure a draw despite Sussex using ten bowlers.

India won their first series in England in 1971 but the meeting at Hove was drawn.

Sussex led by 166 on

Claim to fame: Nicky Phillips, above, Sussex’s bespectacled offspinner has got Sachin Tendulkar out twice in the same match Motoring along: Mike Buss, right, made 140 when the teams drew at Hove in 1971

17 Star of India: Vijay Merchant, right, walks out to bat with Mushtaq Ali during India’s tour of 1946.

first innings after 140 from Mike Buss and although Sussex’s Indian spinner Uday Joshi took 5 for 105 his compatriots hung on for a draw.

It was another 25 years before India’s next visit and since then there have been two matches.

The 2002 meeting like today’s was a 50 overs affair played under lights in front of a big Saturday crowd.

A slow pitch inhibited the batsmen. Sussex struggled to 203 for 8 and India needed all of Tendulkar’s experience to guide them to a three-

wicket win with an undefeated 75.

The last match was played over four days in 2007.

VVS Laxman made 95 and Gautam Gambhir 81 in India’s 388 for 7 but Andrew Hodd’s unbeaten 106 helped Sussex respond with 300 for 6 declared.

A final-day declaration left Sussex needing 273 to win but they looked to be heading for defeat when last man Jason Lewry joined Robin Martin-Jenkins.

They survived 47 balls, though, to see their side to the draw at 190 for 9.

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CB40 FIXTURES Mon Aug 29: Kent v Derbyshire (Canterbury)

Batting Player

Mat Inns NO Runs HS

BC Brown 5 CD Nash 9 LJ Wright 3 EC Joyce 10 MW Goodwin 10 WD Parnell 2 L Vincent 7 JS Gatting 4 Rana Naved 8 MH Yardy 8 LWP Wells 4 Naved Arif 10 WA Adkin 2 AJ Hodd 5 MJ Prior 1 CJ Liddle 8 MS Panesar 10 WAT Beer 1

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60 137.00 144.21 124* 81.33 102.09 71* 67.50 100.00 120 57.75 105.23 109* 49.20 121.18 47 47.00 167.85 102 43.50 120.83 122 42.50 102.40 25* 24.00 94.73 39 22.33 75.28 17 17.00 130.76 22 16.00 71.64 10 10.00 33.33 6* 7.00 66.66 4 4.00 66.66 6 6.00 120.00 1* 1.00 25.00 27* - 100.00

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Mat Overs Runs Wkts BBI

OP Rayner 1 6 25 0 - LWP Wells 4 10 42 3 3-19 LJ Wright 3 12 53 2 2-26 MS Panesar 10 71 348 9 2-28 Naved Arif 10 62.1 316 8 3-54 CD Nash 9 27 138 5 3-30 WAT Beer 1 8 41 0 - CJ Liddle 8 49 254 14 5-18 L Vincent 7 1.2 7 0 - Rana Naved 8 55 297 13 3-21 MH Yardy 9 51.2 325 13 4-10 WA Adkin 2 10 64 1 1-39 WD Parnell 2 14 103 4 2-48 A Khan 1 3.3 30 0 - UP TO AND INCLUDING SUNDAY, AUGUST 21

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Exotic names, great history…

India have always been welcome visitors to Hove, as Paul Weaver, of The Guardian, reports

nning 91 not out for India MS Dhoni on his way to a match-wi Cup final earlier this year

India, traditionally, are the most welcome of touring teams to Hove. There has always been – before it is temporarily blown away by a fresh sea breeze - a whiff of curry powder and juniper berries about the committee room, a sense of lost empire and bewildered, ruddy-faced, old colonels.

Sussex cricket has always had plenty of exotic associations. It’s most colourful players, it seems, were born beyond the county’s borders, Imran Khan, Ted Dexter, CB Fry, Javed Miandad, John Snow, Arthur Gilligan, Tony Greig, Mushtaq Ahmed…

But no country – not even England – has more romantic associations than India, the source of such players as Ranjitsinhji, Duleepsinhji, the Nawab of Pataudi, as well as lesser, more contemporary cricketers like Eknath Solkar and Uday Joshi.

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The current India side captained by MS Dhoni, is hardly the stuff of history. This is the most aggressively modern team in the world, a team laden with IPL riches and enough talent to make them the dominant force in the one-day game.

India’s victory in the World Cup final in the spring is still fresh in the memory. And it was a cricket match worthy of the occasion. One-day cricket is so often an anti-climax – the team batting first so often scores too few or too many runs. But that was not the case when India played Sri Lanka, a match best remembered for the contrasting centuries scored by Mahela Jayawardene and Mahendra Dhoni.

There were so many people happily jumping up and down on the grave of 50-over cricket that they didn’t realise it was alive and well all the time. The 50-over game is still the best day out in cricket. It ebbs and

33 flows, mimicking the first-class game, in a way that the brash newcomer, Twenty20 cricket, can never do.

Those of who remember the initial years of the Gillette Cup, 1963 and 1964, when Sussex were triumphant, will recall that it was a 65-over game in those days. One-day cricket is the better the longer it is and the 50-over game is the best short-form version now available. And India have shown everyone else how to play it.

The best match in the World Cup was that between India and England. But the final was one to remember, even though Muttiah Muralitharan and Sachin Tendulkar did not strut the stage as everyone hoped they would.

India’s one-day side is a compelling spectacle. And their batting, opening up with Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag, is the envy of the rest of the world. Yuvraj Singh is one of the best strikers of a cricket ball in the modern game, as Stuart Broad would ruefully confirm.

Rahul Dravid’s one-day career looked over. But the man whose Test tally is second only to Tendulkar’s is there too following his memorable Test series.

If there is some late-order thumping to be done Dhoni is just the man, as he showed in the Test series Wed Aug 31: t20 international (OldTrafford) when he put his woes behind him to attack the Sat Sept 3: ODI (Riverside) England bowlers at Edgbaston.

These are the best known names. But there is some Tues Sep 6: ODI (Southampton) exciting new talent as well. Virat Kohli, a 22-year-old middle-order batsman, is one for the future and a Fri Sep 9: ODI (The Oval) possible captain as well.

Sun Sep 11: ODI (Lord’s) Ravichandran Ashwin, 24, is a tall off-spinner and some have compared him to Venkat. Parthiv Patel, Fri Sep 16: ODI (Cardiff) 26, is a left-handed batsman and wicketkeeper and Rohit Sharma is a wristy right-hand batsman who also bowls off-spinners.

Munaf Patel, RP Singh and Vinay Kumar are others anxious to make their mark in a summer dominated by the Test series. And India’s disappointing showing in the Test matches has also given the one-day side a greater incentive to prove that India’s cricket is not over the hill.

The Test side is clearly in decline, with the likes of Tendulkar, Dravid and VVS Laxman all nearing the end of their astonishing careers. The one-day side, however, is a different prospect. And they will be anxious Ranjitsinhji and Duleepsinhji, seen here batting against to prove as much at a ground that the 1930 Australians, are two players who helped forge has so many links with cricket in the the strong links between Sussex and India subcontinent.

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Answers Please Sharks’ Kiwi batsman Lou Vincent answers the questions Interview by Adam Matthews Q What’s the best thing about playing for Sussex?

A The steak sandwiches after the game, they’re unbelievable! But seriously, every day is a highlight here, I thoroughly enjoy playing for the club.

Q Which cricketer do you play like the most?

A At times I can be a combination of Chris Martin from New Zealand, but then other times Viv Richards of the West Indies. It depends what day of the week it is!

Q What has been your greatest moment in a Sussex shirt?

A For me personally I’d never actually played at Lord’s before so to play there and beat Middlesex in the t20, helping the guys get through a tough and tricky little period in the

first ten overs, has been one of the highlights so far in the time I’ve been here.

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

A No question at all, after playing at Lord’s that would be mine. The atmosphere and walking through the Long Room, I’ve heard stories about it but to actually experience it and to see why people talk about it is great. But there’s nothing like playing at your home ground and the spectators here after the game and those that follow us round the country make it a fantastic place to play.

Q Who has the worst fashion sense in the home dressing room?

A Wayne Parnell, because he’s two years ahead of

fashion. He’s a trendsetter! As cool as he dresses, he’s too far advanced for the rest of us.

He’s too cool I think!

Q Who has the worst taste in music?

A Mine has been thrown off a few times but I might have to say Andrew Hodd, he has an awful ringtone on his phone so he must have the worst taste in music Q What are your other interests outside cricket?

A Chris Nash has got me into playing golf again. I really enjoy the golf course, Mannings Heath is a beautiful course to play at. Ollie Rayner leant me his skateboard so I find myself going up and down the front on that now and again. And of course I’ve got two little ones who keep me busy.

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

A The advice I try and listen to is that you become your own best coach. It’s as simple as that, as you know when things are going well.

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County cricket is to undergo another major change to its structure from the 2012 season onwards.

The ECB ended a lengthy consultation process with various stakeholders in the game from Team England management down to county members when they announced in March the following: • County Championship to stay at 16 games with two divisions of nine.

• wenty20 group stages reduced from 16 to 10 games. Quarter-finals and Finals Day formats remain the same.

• Clydesdale Bank 40 decision deferred until May. Two options under consideration: four groups of five followed by quarter-finals, semis and final or retention of the current system of three groups of seven.

Sussex chairman Jim May admitted he was “pretty disappointed but not surprised” at the outcome and warned there could be dire consequences for some counties because of the reduction in income from staging one-day cricket.

He said: “Sussex are in reasonable financial shape but I think that some counties are sleepwalking to financial disaster. Of the 18 counties, 15 made a loss this year and if we end up giving up the revenue from at least five home one-day games – three in Twenty20 and possibly two in the CB40 if

they switch to the four groups of five – means I can see one or two counties going to the wall without those important pay-days from one-day cricket.”

Sussex were among several counties who lobbied the ECB for compensation to cover potential loss of earnings from less one-day cricket. Three fewer Twenty20 games and two less CB40 matches could potentially cost the club around £200,000 in revenue.

“We will have to live with what is going on and we are pleased, along with counties like Somerset, Essex and Kent, that there will be a financial package but we are still awaiting details and it is likely to be a transitional arrangement for a couple of years,” added Jim. Any changes to the CB40 structure might also impact on festival cricket. Arundel and Horsham’s one-day fixtures go a long way towards helping pay for the cost of staging a week of cricket on an out-ground. Jim said: “We definitely want to retain 12 games in the CB40 otherwise there is a danger that there won’t be any one-day cricket at Hove or any of our other grounds from August onwards, a time of year when we traditionally get good crowds particularly for floodlight games. I appreciate that our members will be pleased that a 16-game County Championship has been preserved and this remains our most important domestic competition.”

The ECB will finalise their plans for the other one-day competition, which could revert back to a 50 overs competition to mirror international cricket, in May but Sussex members think the new-look domestic structure seems familiar they are right. It is hardly any different to 2009 before Twenty20 was enlarged. “I fear this might not be the end of it,” said Jim. “We haven’t got a good tradition of sorting out a permanent structure for county cricket and with this it seems like we are going back to the future. If we have a successful 16-match Twenty20 this summer, when we don’t have to cope with the counterattraction of the football World Cup, we might end up discussing it again at the end of the season. Or we could end up having 14 Championship games, which has got a lot of support, through natural wastage with two counties going to the wall.”

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New home for Sussex treasures Indian theme in our new museum today

SCMET secretary Jon Filby is one of many Sussex enthusiasts who have worked hard to make sure that our new museum reflects the history and tradition of Sussex cricket The new Sussex Cricket Museum will be open today and Rob Boddie, our archivist is planning an Indian theme to coincide with the tourists’ visit to Hove today.

A more formal opening will take place next year when we will be opening all of our new exhibits, the highlights of which will include an area dedicated to Matt Prior, our double Ashes winning wicketkeeper.

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

In rough terms, the layout will consist of an office to house a selection of key reference material

including Wisdens and our collection of Sussex Year Books. A secured archive area will house our more important and rare books and albums, scorecards, photographs, press cuttings, autographs and letters.

The main body of the museum will consist of the exhibition of the history of Sussex cricket with a people focussed timeline theme, covering cricket played in Sussex from the 18th century

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to Matt’s heroics in the Ashes 2010. It will cover the evolution of country house cricket to the development of the County Club (1839) through to the modern professional era and the second ‘Golden Age’ of Sussex cricket.

There will be a strong emphasis on participation.

Indeed one section of the museum will be dedicated to interactive cricket-related games and skills specifically aimed at kids. Finally, we intend to develop an online virtual tour of the museum linking into both our archive and our interactive displays.

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

I know, with the enthusiasm and dedication of the Trustees, secretary Jon Filby and our archivist

Rob Boddie we have a team to deliver the project to fulfilment. It is critical that we develop a regular income to sustain our annual overheads and with this in mind we have launched our new ‘Friends of SCMET’ programme.

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Sussex Sharks’ coach Mark Robinson looks ahead to the visit of the world champions SHARKS’ coach Mark Robinson is looking forward to seeing his side take on the best one-day side in world cricket.

Sussex have hosted touring teams throughout the county’s long and illustrious history but this game has captured the imagination more than most.

Ticket sales spiked after India’s memorable triumph over Sri Lanka in the World Cup final earlier this year and the game has been a 6,500 sell-out for nearly a month.

For those with long memories, it is reminiscent of India’s visit here in 1999 when they played South Africa in the last World Cup to be staged in England.

The match was a sell-out with around 7,000 shoehorned into the ground, many of them content to stand all day to watch the action, while hundreds of Indian fans stood in adjoining streets to peer through gaps between the flats or begged people with views over the ground to let them watch the action.

It should be slightly less chaotic today – for starters there are no free vantage points from adjoining streets anymore – but India’s presence here, despite their 4-0 hammering in the Test series will excite players and spectators alike.

Robinson said: “It is going to be a great occasion. As players, you love playing in front of full houses. It raises your own performance level and everything positive you do is going to be well received by the crowd and the atmosphere today with so many colourful and passionate Indian fans in the ground will be one to savour.

“Our players are looking forward to it as well. We have had a very hectic schedule recently and that will dictate our selection a little bit.

“Obviously we haven’t got Matt Prior or Luke Wright and Ed Joyce is in Ireland playing against England.

“But it will still be a strong Sussex side who will be anxious to compete with the best one-day side in the world. It will give us an idea of where we are as a one-day team because there is no better team to compare yourself than India, whoever they choose to play.”

It is a measure of how much one-day and Twenty20 cricket dominates the thoughts of the average Indian fan that victory over England in the five-match one-day series which starts next week will turn a dispiriting tour so far into a successful one.

As well as today’s game they face Kent under the Canterbury floodlights tomorrow in what is another 7,000 sell-out before next Wednesday’s t20 international against England at Old Trafford.

Robinson added: “A game like this with such a high profile is a great opportunity for our players to state their own claims and I have no doubt they will relish the occasion of playing against some of the greats of world cricket.

“It will be an important game for India too. They only play two 50 overs warm-ups before the oneday series and will be looking to win both for their own confidence.”

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