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WELCOME
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very warm Sussex welcome to The 1st Central County Ground to all our opposition – players, staff, board members and supporters. We enjoyed some memorable matches during the 2018 campaign on the way to our appearance at finals day. No doubt there will be lots of twists and turns and drama as the 2019 Vitality Blast campaign gets underway. We are thrilled to be able to have Rashid Khan return for the second season after his debut for Sussex last year. His performances on the field were a privilege to watch and the support of the Afghan community at Hove added a great deal of colour and noise to our campaign and made for great TV. This year Rashid will be joined by Alex Carey, the Australian World Cup wicketkeeper who also plays for the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash, so is clearly well known to our head coach Jason Gillespie. We believe the return of Rashid and the signing of Alex will add strength to the team from last year and when you add them to the likes of Luke Wright, Phil Salt, Laurie Evans, Stiaan van Zyl, Chris Jordan, David Wiese, Tymal Mills and Jofra Archer, who all
have global T20 tournament experience you can see why there is tangible excitement. Add in the established performances of Danny Briggs and Will Beer and the potential of Delray Rawlins, Ollie Robinson, George Garton and Aaron Thomason in white–ball cricket and it is an exciting prospect. Last year we fell just short on finals day and we congratulate Worcestershire Rapids on their welldeserved first success in the T20 competition. Of course, we hope to go one better this year but as always there is strong competition in the south group and everyone will feel they can finish in the top four and qualify for the quarter finals. This is the last Vitality Blast campaign before the player draft in October for next years Hundred competition. For all those players with white ball ambitions it is a great opportunity to put your name up for selection when the exciting televised draft comes to this country after the season finishes. Next year’s Vitality Blast competition will move slightly earlier in the season before the Hundred starts to enable all the counties to have their best players available for the T20 competition. There will be eight wildcard places available in the Hundred, which will allow players who missed out in the draft to be picked next year if they perform really well in the Blast. There will still be 300 professional players who do not get selected for the Hundred and the counties will continue to play the 50-over One-Day Cup in this period. I would like to thank you for your continued support this season. We had great attendances last year and look forward to seeing all our supporters, hospitality guests and sponsors at Hove at some point during this campaign. Big thank yous also to Boundless our T20 shirt sponsor and 1st Central our ground sponsor. Get behind the team and have fun!
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Rob Andrew, Sussex Cricket Chief Executive
WRIGHT PLACE, WRIGHT TIME Sharks skipper Luke Wright talks to Steve Bone about the early days of T20 cricket — and why it’s so much fun captaining in the short format well over a decade later.
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uke Wright was already playing professional cricket when Twenty20 was introduced. He was at the very start of his career, and with Leicestershire, when the new format was launched in England in 2003. Since then it’s a form of the game that’s been very good to him – and he’s a player who has been very good at it. He recalls in those early days that more senior pros didn’t seem to think T20 would be here to stay. “I’ve loved Twenty20 from day one,” he says. “It attracts big crowds and produces exciting cricket for them, and that’s what you want to be involved in as a player. “It suited my style - in those days as an all-rounder - and still suits my batting style. I’m lucky enough to have played it internationally and all around the world, so it’s given me some great experiences. “I was in the Sussex team who won the T20 Cup in 2009 which was fabulous, and it would be lovely for us to do that again a decade on.
“I do remember when T20 was first played here, a lot of senior players laughed at it and thought it was a joke. But they had to change their view when they saw how many people turned up to watch it.” The record books show that 34-year-old Wright, who retired from red-ball cricket earlier this year to concentrate on the white-ball stuff, has played 300 T20s with an astonishing strike rate of 144 and a best knock of 153 not out, a 66-ball innings containing 11 sixes and 12 fours that won the Sharks a remarkable game in Essex in 2014. It’s no wonder Sussex bosses have been happy to make him skipper of their present-day side, putting him in charge of a talented crop of players that this year will include two overseas stars – Rashid Khan and Alex Carey – as well as the likes of Chris Jordan, Jofra Archer, Tymal Mills and David Wiese. With men like that at his disposal, is being a T20 captain easy? “I wouldn’t say that,” he laughs. “But I love
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being captain. What you find is that a captain can influence the result much more in T20 than in longer forms. “When you choose to use a particular bowler, or set a particular field, it can have a big bearing on the result. In T20 one or two good overs can win you the game, while one or two bad ones can lose it. You have to be alert all the time and ready to adapt to the match situation. NOT EVERYONE IN THE CROWD WOULD NOTICE SOMETHING HAD BEEN DOWN TO YOU BUT IT’S SATISFYING WHEN YOU KNOW YOU’VE DONE SOMETHING THAT’S HELPED BRING A WIN. Wright says Sussex’s players have enough experience between them to know how to approach the batting and what areas to bowl in, and he sees his role as one of encouragement– and advice when things are not going well.“We have a lot of fairly senior bowlers
and they know what I want from them out there. It’s more about me picking when to use them. They’re relaxed about when they bowl in a T20, they’re all used to bowling at the start, middle or end of an innings. But with the younger players I can do more to give them a heads-up about how to play and what tactics to go for.” Wright and his troops all enjoyed finals day last year immensely, despite losing in the final to Worcestershire, and they are determined to secure a return visit. But the captain knows they cannot take for granted that they will get through the south group to qualify for the last eight. “Middlesex look strong having signed AB De Villiers, Surrey are a team full of internationals and Hampshire - last year apart - normally find their groove,” he reflects. “But one team I think are a real danger are Somerset. They’re always there or thereabouts but you look at their form this year in all formats of the game and I think they’ll be very strong.”
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WHAT RASHID DID NEXT…
The Sharks’ globetrotting, leg-spinning superstar has been a busy man following his stint on the South Coast during last year’s Vitality Blast. Here’s what Rashid Khan has been up since we last saw him in a Sussex shirt.
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1. August 2018 ODI series: Afghanistan vs. Ireland (won 2-1) —Three matches Bowling: 8 wkts @ 12, econ: 3.49 Batting: 11 runs @ 5.5, SR: 40.74
Asia Cup: Afghanistan (SuperFour) — Five matches Bowling: 10 wkts @ 17.2, econ: 3.72 Batting: 87 runs @ 43.50, SR: 142.62
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Indian Premier League: Sunrisers Hyderabad (lost in eliminator round) — Fifteen matches Bowling: 17 wkts @ 22.1, econ: 6.28 Batting: 34 runs @6.8, SR: 147.82
ODI series: Afghanistan vs. Ireland (drew 2-2) — Five matches Bowling: 5 wkts @ 27.4, econ: 3.91 Batting: 106 runs @ 53, SR: 98.14
11. June – July 2019 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup: Afghanistan (10th/10 group stage) - Nine matches Bowling: 6 wkts @ 69.33, econ: 5.79 Batting: 105 @ 11.66, SR: 100.96
Test match: Afghanistan vs. Ireland (won by 7 wkts) Bowling: 2-20 & 5-82 Batting: 10 & DNB
10. May 2019 ODI series: Afghanistan vs. Ireland (drew 1-1) — Two matches Bowling: 2 wkts @ 36, econ: 3.7 Batting 16 runs @ 8, SR: 133.33
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3. October 2018 Afghanistan Premier League: Kabul Zwanan (runners-up) — Nine matches Bowling: 10 wkts @ 23.4, econ: 6.53 Batting: 173 runs @ 34.6, SR: 198.85
4. November/December 2018 T10 League: Maratha Arabians (4th place) — Nine matches Bowling: 6 wkts @ 33.5, econ: 11.16 Batting: 42 runs @8.4, SR: 210
5. December 2018 Msanzi Super League: Durban Heat (6th/6 group stage) — Four matches Bowling: 7 wkts @ 13.85, econ: 6.46 Batting: 9 runs @ 4.5, SR: 100
7. February 2019 T20I series: Afghanistan vs. Ireland (won 3-0) — Three matches Bowling: 11 wkts @ 6.63, econ: 6.08 Batting: 7 runs @ N/A, SR: 100
6. December 2018 – February 2019 Big Bash League: Adelaide Strikers (7th/8 group stage) — Fourteen matches Bowling: 19 wkts @ 18.1, econ: 6.14 Batting: 93 runs @ 13.28, SR: 166.07
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PHIL SALT: ON THE RADAR Performances at home and abroad earned Phil Salt an England call earlier this year. He tells Matt Pole about the thrill of that honour - and how Jason Gillespie’s belief is helping him progress. 10 sussexcricket.co.uk
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his has been a whirlwind 12 months and one laden with achievement for Phil Salt. The 22-year-old was an integral part of Islamabad United’s Pakistan Super League side, rubbing shoulders with New Zealand wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi and former England star Iain Bell as he hit 94 runs in six games. Salt and Islamabad couldn’t retain their 2018 title, losing the last preliminary play-off for the final to Peshawar Zalmi, but this blow has since been cushioned in the most wonderful way imaginable. Before England’s T20 international in May against Pakistan, Middlesex batsman Dawid Malan was ruled out through a groin injury. With a space up for grabs, Salt was swiftly added to a squad that already boasted his Sussex teammates Chris Jordan and Jofra Archer. Although Salt didn’t make the England first XI, the Welsh-born batsman took a lot on board on and off the pitch during his time in a star-studded dressing room – even if he did have to pinch himself at times. THE LIONS HAD SNIFFED AROUND IN THE PAST BUT NOTHING EVER HAPPENED SO TO GET THE CALL, IT WAS NICE TO KNOW I WAS ON THEIR RADAR.
“I’d been performing in the winter and I had a couple of moments where I looked round the dressing room and went ‘bloody hell everyone else here is an international cricketer and I’m the only one here not”, says Salt. “The best thing I got out of it was chatting to the lads and realising how simple they kept it. It was brilliant being around these guys. Being around those guys, like a lot of those top cricketers in the winter, it was more the stuff off the pitch. “It’s the stuff that makes you realise how much you need to know about your mental space, what you’re thinking, how much you back yourself in certain scenarios, rather than how you train. I found that really interesting. Some guys like to hit loads of balls, others barely any.”Salt credits Sussex’s Australian coach Jason Gillespie with allowing him to flourish at The 1st Central County Ground.
The Bodelwyddan-born player became a first-team mainstay at Hove during the 2018 Specsavers County Championship division two campaign. He notched 739 runs in 14 innings, averaging 30.79. Salt started the 2019 in similarly fine fettle, notching up 376 runs in nine innings at an average of 41.78, before a hand injury curtailed his early-season promise. Gillespie’s ‘very simple’ style and ‘massive belief’ in the players has seen him heap praise on the Australian bowling legend. “Dizzy’s one of those people who will always back you. He’s got massive belief in the boys. He knows a good player when he sees one and if he rates you he’ll back you to the hilt,” Salt adds. “He keeps things very simple and he’s not too flashy. There are loads of coaches who love a cliche and love a buzzword but he keeps it really simple. That’s the best thing about working with him.” Stellar performances in T20 cricket in 2018 also helped Salt gain his England call. The young batsmen bludgeoned 355 runs in 14 innings, at a strike-rate of 172.33, as the Sharks reached the final of the Vitality Blast before suffering a five-wicket loss at the hands of Worcestershire Rapids. The Rapids defeat still rankles with Salt, but he recognises similar white-hot performances in this year’s competition will see England’s T20 selectors come knocking on the door once more. “It’s all about performances. I had a good T20 campaign last year and hit four 50s or whatever it was. The defeat in the final against Worcestershire did sting a bit but that’s sport. It’s the nature of the beast. SOMEONE WAS ALWAYS GOING TO FALL SHORT AND IT JUST HAPPENED TO BE US. BUT I’M SURE IN THE FUTURE, GOING FORWARD, WE’LL BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE RESULT MORE THAN OFTEN WITH THIS GROUP OF PLAYERS THAT WE’VE GOT. “Hopefully I can do the same again and get a good strike-rate at the top of the order and keep moving games away from the opposition, hopefully England will see that and I’ll appear in their plans for the future.”
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hey say that nothing ever really goes out of fashion. Trends always come back around… eventually. This year’s England’s men’s world cup team, for example, have taken inspiration from a 1992 throwback. Sussex wouldn’t be able to go that far back for their Vitality Blast uniform, with the competition only being born in 2003, and they haven’t! The competition has evolved since those early games and so have their kits… 2003
2005 Onto 2005 and a change of direction is needed. You couldn’t play first class or one-day tactics here, the game needs to be ramped up and the kit with it. The club moved to a navy and gold trim combination, with the shark fin evident as teams try to advertise their nicknames more prominently. It even looked as if they were starting to thin out the material; this is a summer game after all.
In 2003 Sussex along with the other 17 counties took a step into the unknown. A new competition with much riding on it, securing the cricket audiences of the future with the excitement of quick, big and thrilling cricket. Sussex’s 2003 Twenty20 kit represented the times. It was big, baggy, black and red and far removed from traditional Sussex colours. Clearly that was the idea though, it was a new format, different from anything that had gone before, exciting and new and the kit reflected that. Sussex finished second in the south group that year and the foundations had been set.
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It’s 2004 and we probably already knew Twenty20 was here to stay. The shirt was Sussex blue, still baggy, and perhaps even on the heavy side for such a high-octane game. After such a promising opening season Sussex finished bottom of their group. A year and a shirt to forget perhaps?
It’s 2009 and finally the kit design has caught up with the modern competition, light weight, streamlined, and professional. We also move to the more recognised light blue colour. Now, I am not saying this switch in thinking led to the Sharks winning the competition, but I can’t help thinking it played its part. A change in mentality of how we approach the look of our kit and therefore how we approach the game.
2007 and the game is growing, the crowds are still coming, and so are the overseas stars. Everyone now wants a piece of the Twenty20 game, we even have an international T20 world cup. The decision has been made and we are back to what we might refer to as “traditional Sussex blue”. Still what we might regard as baggy and representative of the game at the time, with both game and kit in transition. Fortune changed and we top the group, we make it all the way to the promised land.
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Sussex fan and fashion enthusiast Steph Paine, casts a critical eye over every Sharks T20 kit since 2003… 2011
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Into the 2011 season, England are the reigning World T20 champions and the appetite for the game is as high as ever. Other countries around the world are hosting their own competitions and the players are really starting to hone their tactics. After exiting at the quarter final stage the year before, Sussex were really starting to establish themselves as a solid T20 team. We continue with the successful pale blue model, the shirt continues to look the part. It’s becoming more recognisable and some might even say fashionable.
It’s 2017 and we see another small trend coming back around, it’s the light blue version and this mixed in with the black of yesteryear. One big change though, for the first time we remove the collar. This reflected the time and its fashions, other sports teams have already made this modern change, cricket yet again probably playing catchup.
2014 2014 and not much has changed, maybe we are onto something, lightweight, fitted, and instantly recognisable. Teams, and Sussex in-particular, are embedding their T20 brands into the subconscious of supporters. This strong brand association and the loyalty of fans was a great counter argument to the whispers that the T20 game in England was starting to become stale. Did we need to freshen things up? Is that why the name was changed to the Blast? Had other competitions overtaken the game we invented?
2018 Finally, our 2018–19 shirt, we’ve settled on a slightly more royal blue colour. Its modern, it’s dynamic, and its polished much like Sussex’s approach to the game. We have explosive batsmen and quick, intelligent bowlers that took us back to finals day. These players are now proper athletes and the shirt represents this step up in professionalism. Sussex are a slick outfit and they have a slick uniform to go with it.
2015 2015 and Sussex feel that need to change. We reverted to the black of our very first kit. See, I said fashion always comes back around! Luckily, we didn’t go back to the baggy heavy version though, sticking with the fitted look. With the likes of Tymal Mills and Chris Jordan bowling at extreme pace it was probably a good idea, they wouldn’t want any resistance affecting their run ups, the shirts are now practical and are built to aid players and their game. 13 sussexcricket.co.uk
DANNY BRIGGS: “WE WANT TO WIN MORE GAMES IN FRONT OF OUR OWN FANS” Danny Briggs tells Steve Bone there are numerous reasons for optimism about the Sharks’ 2019 Blast campaign.
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t might be 10 years this year since Sussex Sharks last won the Twenty20 Cup, but there is one man in the team who’s lifted it since - Danny Briggs. He was in the Hampshire side who won it on their own ground in 2010 and again at Cardiff two years later, and he would love to make it a treble this year with the Sharks. “I do remind the lads I’ve won it a couple of times,” Briggs laughs. “You have to - no-one else will remember it if you don’t!” Briggs is excited to be part of a Sharks squad who were one win from lifting the Vitality Blast in 2018 and are out to go one better this year. A year ago, Sussex recruited one of the best
spinners in the world - aka Rashid Khan - but if you think that would have left fellow slow bowler Briggs fearing for his place in the XI, you’d be wrong. He embraced it and was thrilled to be in the same side as the Afghanistan ace, and has been pleased to welcome him back in 2019.“When we signed him, I still had a feeling I’d get a good opportunity in the team and I did. Rash was awesome as soon as he came in. It’s almost like he plays his game - you let him go and do his thing - and we all play around him. “He fitted into the dressing room and really well and we’re delighted he’s come back. He’s played in all the big tournaments around the world and that experience is so valuable.
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The arrival of Australian keeper/batsman Alex Carey has also got the players buzzing. Briggs says: “He’s a great addition, a powerful batter and a really good keeper, and he’s shown in the World Cup he can come in for different situations and cope well with any of them.” But while Briggs, who is in his fourth season with Sussex, is happy to talk about individuals and what they can bring to the team, he is keen to stress the Sharks’ strength is that the squad is full of players who can step up and dominate a game. “What we saw last year was so many different players who could step up when others had an off-day,” he reflects. “I think we all knew last summer we had a good T20 squad, a real mixture of experience and young talent. Different people chipped in each game - we had, and still have, a lot of potential matchwinners. WE GAINED A LOT OF EXPERIENCE COMING THROUGH THE SOUTH GROUP, WINNING THE QUARTER-FINAL AND GETTING TO FINALS DAY AND WE MUST USE THAT HIS YEAR.
There’s another member of the Sharks squad who’s picked up vital T20 experience overseas since the Sharks’ 2018 campaign who Briggs is expecting to be a star this summer too - young batsman Phil Salt. “He just clicked last year for us,” Briggs says. “He hit the ball so well and played some amazing innings. He’s gone on since then and done pretty well wherever he’s played T20 and I think he could have another big year.”
“The south group, as everyone says now, is tough. A few years back you might have identified one or two counties you’d back yourself to beat most times but I don’t think there are any weak teams in it now. “We’ll have to be consistent and one thing we want to do this year is win more of our games at Hove in front of our fans. Last year it was our away form that got us through so we’d like to even things up a bit at home.” One of the keys for Briggs - and, he says, for coach Jason Gillespie - will be not to get too wound up about a defeat or two in the group stage. “You’re never going to go through all 14 games and not lose - it would be ridiculous for any county to do that,” he says. “The key is to play good cricket and back yourselves to win more than you lose.“Dizzy is very laid-back, particularly in the T20. He keeps calm and gives you the freedom to play your own game and is always there with guidance when it’s needed.”
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LAURIE EVANS: “NOBODY REMEMBERS THE RUNNERS-UP” Laurie Evans enjoyed helping Sussex to Vitality Blast finals day last year. But, as he tells Steve Madeley and Michael Hellyer, he knows winning the trophy would be a lot, lot better.
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aurie Evans remembers the 2018 Blast final between Sussex Sharks and Worcestershire Rapids well. And so he should - he scored 52 in a Sharks total of 157-6 that for a while looked like it might be enough. In the event it was not and Mooen Ali’s men chased down the target under the Edgbaston lights with nine balls to spare, leaving Luke Wright and Co as runners-up, unable to claim a trophy they’d previously won nine years earlier. The memory of it gives Evans extra incentive to want to do well this year – and hopefully be part of a Sharks team who can go one better.
“At the time we were really happy to get to the final and gutted we lost but we were happy with the experience and the competition,” said the batsman, who had won the trophy with Warwickshire in 2014. “But now that’s all forgotten and you don’t have that winner’s medal. That is quite hard to get your head around because you feel you’ve put a lot of hard work in and it does hurt that we didn’t get over the line. “We don’t go down as winners, we were runners-up and nobody really remembers that. It was a great year but it was tough not to win, and looking back now it hurts even more that we didn’t
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bring that trophy back”. “Now it feels like we’re starting again. We’re not sitting here with the trophy in the cabinet, we’re like every other team who didn’t win it. We’d love to go one better this year, who wouldn’t?” Evans has been impressed with the rise and rise of the T20 format and is delighted to be a part of it. “It’s certainly surpassed the 50-over competition in terms of where it stands, and in terms of the money side of things it’s by far the biggest competition,” he told us. “It’s the way the game is changing. Test cricket will never be rivalled, but T20 domestically is very important to help young people want to play and to develop the game. “If you didn’t have T20, where would cricket be now with the world we live in? The world is exciting and you want to keep up with that and produce something that’s worthy of people’s attention and - without T20 I don’t think we’d have that. T20 IS FAST, IT’S FUN, THERE’S A GAME EVERY DAY IN THE BLAST AND THERE ARE GAMES ALL AROUND THE WORLD. IT’S DEFINITELY BEEN GOOD FOR THE GAME.
think it affects him too much. He is pretty chilled and he loves the stage. “He’s one of the world’s best so it’s difficult to ignore what he’s done in the IPL and at the levels he’s played so far.” Evans had a busy winter playing a high standard of cricket overseas, including the T20 tournaments in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and feels his time away improved his game. “I think playing against spin is something I’ve improved on a lot. My confidence levels in that aspect of my game have definitely gone up. I’VE BEEN TRYING TO IMPROVE HOW I HANDLE PRESSURE, THINGS LIKE THAT. PLAYING IN NEW ENVIRONMENTS HELPS. I WAS PRETTY HAPPY WITH THE WAY I HANDLED THE PRESSURE OF BEING IN THOSE TOURNAMENTS, BEING AN OVERSEAS PLAYER. “There’s different opposition in front of you in each one. In the PSL the fast bowling was very good and in Bangladesh the pitches were tricky and it’s a tough environment to be in. All in all there were a lot of lessons learned.”
While Evans is a key man in the Sharks’ batting order for this year’s campaign, the bowling unit is again one for opponents to fear, featuring the likes of three pacemen with England experience Jofra Archer, Chris Jordan and Tymal Mills – plus the spin of Afghanistan superstar Rashid Khan, who is backed up by the likes of Will Beer and Danny Briggs. Evans said: “On paper we’ve got a great team, certainly in the bowling. We should be looking to make finals day every year with that attack. Last year our seamers were high-pace and highskill so all the way through the competition the spinners were the unsung heroes. They won us more games in the competition and helped us defend low totals.” Of course, the whole cricket world now knows about one of those bowlers - Archer - after he made it into England’s World Cup team. But Evans believes his Sharks team-mate can handle the attention he is getting. “It goes with the territory. If you are one of the best players in the world and travelling the world then you’re naturally going to be talked about. There is always pressure. I don’t 19 sussexcricket.co.uk
JOFRA’S JOY Ahead of this summer’s World Cup, Sussex Sharks’ man-ofthe-moment Jofra Archer spoke to Matt Blogg about England, the Vitality Blast and much more.
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his season has already seen Jofra Archer burst into the England white-ball side and acquit himself very well, making his mark in the World Cup as though he’d been playing at that level for years. He may yet be part of the Ashes squad but in the meantime the paceman can’t wait to be part of a successful Sussex Sharks Vitality Blast campaign. He has revealed he is ‘very confident’ his side can succeed in this year’s Blast and perhaps go one better than last year and win the trophy. After losing last year’s final to Worcestershire Rapids, Sussex are determined to make amends this time around and despite not setting himself any personal goals, Archer is seeking success for him and his team-mates.
The 24-year-old says: “I don’t really have personal hopes, but I know that if I give my best then the team will do well, so I’m not really focused on myself. I’d like to win something with Sussex. We were very close last year and hopefully this year we can go a little bit closer. I’m very confident. I don’t see why you shouldn’t be.” Archer insists the pressure he feels as an international cricketer today is no greater than the pressure he felt before, saying: “I’m still young so I never feel like [I have more responsibility]. Even after playing IPL and other stuff, I’ve never felt like a senior player. Some days in some meetings I still don’t speak. Some days you just don’t feel like it. I’m still young and I’m still learning.”
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Looking back on the day he got his first international call-up, Archer remembers the ‘joy’ he felt achieving his childhood dream – and says it has been amazing to play in a ‘great team’ with England. IT WAS COMPLETE JOY. THIS YEAR HAS BEEN A REALLY EXCITING YEAR. IT WAS A GREAT [ENGLAND] TEAM TO GO INTO. WE’VE GOT SOME UNREAL BATTERS, UNREAL BOWLERS, EVERYONE IS GOOD ON THE FIELD. IT’S PROBABLY LIKE GOING INTO A WORLD XI TEAM. “It has definitely improved my confidence as a person. It is something I set out to achieve and
I’ve been very lucky that it’s happened so quickly. That feeling you get when you achieve something you have always wanted to, like passing your driving test or passing an exam, it gives you a bit of extra self-worth. You feel really good about yourself.” Archer speaks of the main differences between international cricket and other forms. He says: “I will say the main difference between any cricket and international cricket is the margin of error. Some balls you can let go in normal cricket and get away with it, but in international cricket you sometimes just have to say ‘well played’. Sometimes it’s not even the bad balls, it might be the good ones that still go far and all you can say is ‘well played’.” Archer got a big break when he was selected to play for Hobart Hurricanes as their overseas player in the Big Bash in Australia. He knows they took ‘a big risk’ in selecting him but is confident he has repaid their faith. The Barbados-born bowler said: “That has been good. I’ve been doing that for two years now. They took a big risk having someone that had never played international cricket as their overseas so it’s been really good to be given that opportunity. I think I’ve repaid them – they still had me back the second year!” Archer insists his quick rise to fame isn’t affecting him or his cricket, adding: “You’ve never really got time to think about it. I’m constantly on the go. As a kid you always say you want to do this but you never really expect to be here. A lot of stuff has happened but I just get on with it.”
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SUSSEX CRICKET FOUNDATION: CHANGING LIVES THROUGH CRICKET S
ussex’s head of community cricket Chris Coleman reviews the SCF’s last 12 months, and looks ahead to the future… As Sussex Cricket’s charitable arm, Sussex Cricket Foundation’s aim is to actively change lives through cricket across the community. We use the game and the Sussex Cricket brand to deliver accessible and enjoyable opportunities that grow the sport, tackle inequalities, improve health and wellbeing and enable people to fulfil their potential. In the past year, the Foundation has reached over 10,000 kids through our Chance to Shine schools programme and transferred 1,800 of these to playing junior club cricket through the All Stars programme. This is all about inspiring the next generation of cricketers. Pupils from Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School in Rottingdean, Brighton got a special treat when Sharks star Phil Salt went down to visit their festival day. We have also seen the start of the inaugural season of The 1st Central Sussex Cricket League. This formation saw us hosting the world’s largest adult cricket league. The new formats see players playing shorter, win/lose formats to help fit in around players busy lifestyles. A local club will always welcome you for a game, whatever your experience. We continue to tackle inequalities in the sport with over 800 young people and adults with disabilities regularly taking part in our year–round Lords Taverner’s funded offerings, culminating in the 10th annual Discoverability Day where players take part in an activity day at The 1st Central County Ground.
Our expanded women and girls programme has seen us running a new secondary school programme, supported by Chance to Shine, and over 35 clubs in Sussex now have women’s sections. We remain at the forefront on both disability and women and girls delivery through our programmes. Our Chance to Shine Street Cricket programme has expanded to seven sites this year delivered in urban areas and targeting kids not currently playing at cricket clubs. The Southwick session had the privilege of a visit from Danny Briggs and Jofra Archer who went head to head in a match. The kids very much held their own against our stars! 2019 has also seen the launch of our first three Sporting Memories programmes. These are targeted at people aged 55+ coping with dementia and aimed at helping social isolation. These are also linked to our county wide walking cricket programmes which have doubled in number in the past 12 months. We are always looking for new fundraising opportunities and have teamed up with Cow Corner who will donate £1,000 to the Foundation for every maximum hit by a Sharks player into Cow Corner during the Vitality Blast. We will also be running raffles at all the T20s with some wonderful prizes to be won. Please do get involved. For more information on all our work. please visit ww.sussexcricket.co.uk
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ALEX CAREY: THIS AUSSIE RULES! Things could have been very different for our new overseas signing, Alex Carey.
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hese days, the 27-year-old from Loxton, South Australia is one of the best wicketkeeper-batsmen in the world – but if you rewind ten years, Carey was a promising Australian Rules football player. As a teenager, he was already a natural athlete. He excelled with both the red ball and the oval ball, but despite being offered a rookie contract from the South Australian Cricket Association, he turned it down. Instead, he chose to move to Sydney in 2010 and join Greater Western Sydney Giants, the Australian Football League’s new expansion club, to pursue an Aussie Rules career. Carey captained the Giants ahead of their first season in the AFL and led them to the Finals of the TAC Cup. He won the team’s best and fairest award and starred for them again in 2011 in the North East Australian Football League – but wasn’t given a place in the club’s inaugural AFL squad in 2012. That blow meant Carey headed back to South Australia, but his passion for cricket was reignited at Glenelg CC during the 2012-13 season - and he hit the ground running after his AFL disappointment.
performances in his debut Big Bash campaign for the Adelaide Strikers, he made his full debut for Australia at the Gabba in January 2018 against England. He has since gone on to make 19 T20I appearances, and at the time of writing, 27 ODI appearances for his country – and was named Australia’s vice-captain at this summer’s World Cup. He has nearly 800 runs in both formats for the Aussies, and 53 dismissals behind the stumps to his name. In the Big Bash, under the guidance of Jason Gillespie, he has shone as an opening batsman, and was his side’s leading run-scorer - and second in the competition overall - with 443 runs, when the Strikers won their inaugural title in 2018. Carey’s 14 dismissals also made him the most prolific ‘keeper in that year’s tournament, and he continued his Big Bash form this winter with just under 400 runs and a strike-rate of 120. Despite being on the cusp of the AFL, Carey looks like he picked the right sport after all. Aussie rules’ loss is our gain.
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TYMAL MILLS: SETTING THE TONE Riley Taylor speaks to Sharks paceman Tymal Mills about what its’s like for a player during a T20…
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o, let’s go back to last year, when the Sharks made it through to Finals Day, what kind of plans go into the games beforehand on the big day? “Well after 14 group games and a quarterfinal you’re well versed and well-practised and obviously you have had to win a lot of games to get to that stage. “At Sussex, we don’t do much in terms of planning, well at least not with the opposition as we don’t tend to focus on them. “We focus more on ourselves, Wrighty might go and look at the pitch and the conditions or look at who is bowling the opening over.” What goes into bowling an opening over... what emotions do you go through and what plans do you suggest? “I’m looking to set the tone for the rest of the innings if I’m bowling it, by looking to get the batsman to play. “I will always be looking to bowl full and target the stumps.” As a bowler in T20 cricket, you’re going to be hit for a boundary from time to time, so after getting hit for a boundary what are your emotions and what do you to reassess? “When I get hit for one I’ll see where the ball goes and see if the field can be changed, go back to my mark and start again. “In terms of my emotions, it will depend on how the boundary comes. If it comes via my poor bowling then I’m going to be frustrated but if it
comes via a good shot then I’ll just say fair enough and move on. “For things like lucky shots you just have to laugh at those kinds of things, see where it went and go back to your mark.” With the home group games in mind, what is the intensity of the atmosphere created by the fans at The 1st Central County Ground and how helpful is a home crowd when you are bowling? The atmosphere at Hove is brilliant, it’s always brilliant at home, all the boys love playing at Hove and despite it being a small ground it’s always a great night. “In terms of it influencing a result, I’m not too sure as last year we didn’t play very well at home. In fact, I think we only won one game at home last year. “It does help with bowling, it helps build pressure with the crowd cheering on every ball.” What are the differences in pressure when it comes to fielding and bowling? “Well as a bowler there is a difference as you only bowl four overs, whereas you’re in the field for the other 16. “Being in the field there is pressure as it’s a huge part of matches and as the old adage goes catches win matches. “Also, it’s different depending on where your field position is and your role is different as well, so I will have a different role in the field to someone like Phil Salt or Chris Jordan.
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DELRAY RAWLINS Cricketing hero growing up? Brian Lara. Watching him was really fun and he made cricket entertaining. First professional match you went to? It would have been Warwickshire versus Yorkshire in a four-day match at Edgbaston when I was about ten or eleven. My club back in Bermuda were on a tour here. [Shivnarine] Chanderpaul was playing – I’d seen him a lot on TV and it was nice to see him playing directly in front of me.
Toughest opponent? James Pattinson. We played against Notts and lost in two days and he was outstanding. Skill-wise, he’s up there with some of the best in the world. Favourite ground other than The 1st Central County Ground? Lord’s is special. Walking through the Long Room after a win – that’s special. It was surreal batting and looking up at the pavilion and having to remember to focus on the ball!
First bat? The first one I remember was a BDM. Not many people had that brand. Favourite moment in a Sussex shirt? Winning the quarter-final last year at Durham. Getting to finals day and the satisfaction of knowing that all the players in the squad had put something into getting there. One player to add to the Sussex Sharks squad? I’d go with Ben Stokes. He’s a three-dimensional, x-factor player. I don’t know him, but it would be cool to play alongside him. Best mate in cricket? Jof. We lived together for a few years and I get on with him really well. It’s nice when he’s around – go round his and play a bit of FIFA.
If you weren’t a cricketer? I’d have given a football a crack. I played as a midfielder for the Bermuda age groups. If not, I’d probably be finishing up uni right now, maybe doing journalism or a coaching course. Favourite social media platform? Twitter. Has to be. I can go on Twitter and have a very, very good laugh every day. Favourite TV show? Love Island, at the moment. Nine o’clock every night I make sure I am in front of the box to watch it. Favourite food? At the moment, I am really enjoying salmon. Top tip for young cricketers? Just enjoy the game. Don’t think too much. See the ball and hit it. Bowl as fast as you can. Throw it as hard as you can.
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CHRIS JORDAN: “THERE’S NO BETTER FORMAT TO BRING IN YOUNG, FRESH GUYS”
Chris Jordan, one of the stars of the Sussex squad, talks to Riley Taylor about that Sharks bowling attack, learning new skills and maintaining high standards.
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nown for his stunning yorkers and superhuman fielding, Chris Jordan has been a force in the England T20 squad for several years, but right now his focus is back on the domestic version of the game with Sussex. He’s back on Sharks T20 duty after a superb series for England in the West Indies in March, when he took six wickets in three games and produced some outstanding fielding. Along with his England experience, his time in numerous global T20 leagues, like
the Indian Premier League (Royal Challengers, Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad), Pakistan Super League (Peshawar Zalmi) and the Australian Big Bash (Sydney Thunder and Adelaide Strikers), makes him a well-seasoned T20 player. His experience with England and globally will no doubt help out a young Sussex Sharks side as they look to reach Vitality Blast Finals Day and banish memories of their final defeat to Worcestershire last season.
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Jordan will reunite with Jofra Archer and Tymal Mills to spearhead a formidable pace attack who will look to continue the same fine form they had in last season’s campaign as they took 42 wickets between them. Joining them in the side is Afghanistan ace Rashid Khan, back for a second Sharks spell. “That will be brilliant, hopefully we can help us go all the way,” Jordan says. “They offer us a lot of variety along with our other bowlers – 90mph and leg-spin, it is pretty much a dream.” The 30-year-old says of Rashid: “He’s a massive addition to the squad, he’s a quality spinner and a quality person, I played with him at the IPL. He’s become more of an all-rounder over the last 12 months with his batting really coming on.” The arrival of Australia wicketkeeper batsman Alex Carey is another positive, says Jordan: “Alex is great, I played with him at Adelaide Strikers, his cricket speaks for itself.” Jordan thinks the inclusion of a number of younger players in the Sharks Blast team is a positive. “The younger players, they’ve played quite a bit of cricket so they’re not that inexperienced. But there’s no better format to bring in young, fresh guys, it’s a dynamic format,” he says. IN TERMS OF WHAT I CAN DO TO HELP THEM, IF I NEED TO SHARE ANYTHING WITH THEM THEN I’M ALWAYS THERE.
So can Sussex go all the way this time? “If you’re not looking to aim that high then there’s no point in playing,” he asserts. “We got a little taste last year, so we’ll certainly give it a good go. “But we can’t get ahead of ourselves, we’ve got to break it down game by game and just keep moving on to the next one.” Jordan enjoyed his contribution to England’s T20 effort in the West Indies and says playing for your country does lead to you trying and succeeding with new skills. “Bowling at the death in international cricket is a lot harder as batsman work you out a lot faster. The first time I played international cricket I only really had a good yorker so I had to add new balls to my arsenal,” says Jordan. CONDITIONS ARE ALWAYS DIFFERENT WHEN BOWLING – YOU CAN’T KEEP BOWLING IN THE SAME MANNER, IN THE SAME WAY. With Jordan known for his athletic fielding in the T20 game, he says you have to train how you play - by never letting your guard drop. “Intensity is the main thing, this is the thing that shows on game day. You’ve got to mirror that same intensity in training, I train hard and often harder than when I’m playing. “You still need to work on things, always improving to benefit more and you don’t want to be left behind.”
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BEING SMART Having said that you’ve got to pick your moment to take the pace off and try and spin the ball past someone. You know the batsmen are likely to target your first couple of balls of your over, so maybe that’s not the time to toss it up. That might actually be the time to bowl a googly into the wicket to get hit square of the wicket and get a guy off strike. You’ve got to trust your gut. You read the match situation and get a sense of what a batsman is trying to do; whether they’re trying to just tick over or if they’re looking to come hard at you. You use that to decide whether you should bowl that googly into the wicket, toss a legspinner up or bowl a slow googly to try and get someone through the gate. I’m always trying to be one step ahead of the batsman, knowing and understanding the situation and trying to deliver the ball that is required.
VARIATION & INNOVATION
Nobody has taken more T20 wickets for the Sharks than Will Beer. He shares some of the secrets of bowling leg-spin in the shortest form of the game… COURAGE You’ve got to be brave to bowl the ball above the batter’s eye line. Just because it’s T20 and the batsmen are looking to be aggressive, you’ve still got to remember that you are a leg-spinner and that you’re trying to take wickets. You have to be courageous enough to try and spin the ball, try and get it above the batter’s eye line at the right times because your main aim is to always try and take a wicket. Wickets stem the flow of runs, whatever format of cricket you’re playing.
In T20, you’re trying to bowl a different delivery almost every ball to stop the batsman getting used to you and lining you up. That’s where variations come in - a leg-spinner, a googly, a slider, using the crease. And then there are changes to the field, maybe having two backward points, having a mid-wicket, whichever one it might be. Depending on the batsman you’re up against and the situation, these things become your tools to choose from. Take the situation where I know the batsman’s going to probably try and hit me for a six this ball. What delivery can I bowl? Where can I bowl it from on the crease? Which direction can I spin the ball in? What pace am I going to bowl the ball? That’s the checklist for every delivery. Make your choices, then bowl that ball with 100% commitment. I’m always looking to add to my toolbox, as well. I’ve watched some of the Afghan spinners bowling their flicks and carrom balls and I’ve been working on a couple myself. I’m always looking to evolve as a player to try and get an advantage by giving batters more to think about.
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KNOWING THE OPPOSITION The amount of help we get from our analysts and various sources is fantastic. We get information these days on where batsmen hit the ball so you can help place your field. You know what shots people play, whether they play reverse sweeps, whether they hit powerful shots down the ground. So you know exactly the type of player you’re playing against. Looking back to finals day last year and the semi-final against Somerset. I knew Corey Anderson is very strong against spin between long on and mid-wicket. So the ball spinning into him is a massive danger as the bowler. You know you’re bowling into his arc. As a result, I don’t think I bowled a single leg-spinner to him on finals day, I bowled googlies and a little seamer I’ve been developing. Without doing my research, I could have been foolish enough to toss up a few leg-spinners and get hit out the park. And suddenly you’re under pressure, and it’s a completely different game.
EXPERIENCE Bowling is like anything in life – the more often you do something, the more experience you have to call on. Having played over 100 T20s, if I am now in a situation where the batsman’s trying to hit me out of the park, I know I’ve been there before and I know how to deal with that situation based on past experience. You still get nervous at the top of your mark, but you know how to control your breathing to relax for example. You know how to get yourself in the right mental state to be able to deliver the ball you want. I think that only comes from experience. You know that you’ve done something before and been successful, so you have confidence in yourself to be able to go and do it again.
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GEORGE GARTON Cricketing hero growing up? I met Brian Lara at Hove when I was seven, so he was definitely kind of a cricketing hero growing up. The West Indies played Sussex in a tour game and I was the mascot and he let me have lunch with him! It was a brilliant experience.
Toughest opponent? Kumar Sangakkara . We were playing at Guildford, I bowled a ball to him – one that when you let go of it, you just know it ‘s a really good ball and you think, ‘that’s probably out’ – and I looked up and he just hit me through mid-on for four. It was his first ball. Favourite ground other than The 1st Central County Ground? Best atmosphere is the Oval, but you can’t beat Lord’s. It’s so iconic… and there’s the lunches.
First bat? It was either a Gray Nicolls Lazer, which was a phenomenal piece of willow, or it was a Kookaburra Beast – the ones with the paint all down the back. Favourite moment in a Sussex shirt? There’s been quite a few. I got a wicket with my first ball in first-call cricket. That was pretty special. Hitting the winning runs against Glamorgan in my second year as a pro after we were eight down needing 30-odd to win. That felt pretty cool. One player to add to the Sussex Sharks squad? Alex Carey?! We’re pretty lucky we’ve got most bases covered, but it would be hard to look past Andre Russel because of how destructive he is. Personally, I’d want Mitchell Starc to pick his brains… and he bowls very fast. Best mate in cricket? Mason Crane I’ve know since I was nine, so he’s probably my longest friend in cricket. One of the nicest guys on the planet is Mark Wood. I get along with Jofra well, and Salty’s a laugh to be around.
If you weren’t a cricketer? I’d be trying my hand at a different sport. At the age of 18, it was a choice between cricket, hockey and baseball, so I’d either be trying to pursue a hockey career in Holland or Germany or going over to the States and having a crack at baseball. Favourite social media platform? Instagram. You just look at pictures and it’s the easiest one. Facebook’s boring and with Twitter, I can’t be dealing with people’s opinions. Favourite TV show? The Inbetweeners is brilliant. Plebs is very funny. I like the classics too, Fawlty Towers or Only Fools and Horses. Favourite food? Japanese or Chinese. I love roast duck with truffle on it or a classic aromatic duck with crispy duck and hoisin sauce. Top tip for young cricketers? Be yourself and have fun. Listen to your gut.
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SUSSEX CRICKET SPONSORS & PARTNERS GROUND SPONSOR 1st Central Insurance SPECSAVERS COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP SHIRT SPONSOR Galloways ROYAL LONDON ONE-DAY CUP SHIRT SPONSOR Parafix VITALITY BLAST SHIRT SPONSOR Boundless SHARK STAND SPONSOR Jointing Tech FAMILY STAND SPONSOR SEA LIFE HOSPITALITY AREA SPONSOR Cow Corner EXECUTIVE SUITE SPONSOR SO Legal INDOOR SCHOOL SPONSOR Aerotron OFFICIAL POURING RIGHTS PARTNER Heineken OFFICIAL VEHICLE SUPPLIER Rivervale OFFICIAL KIT SUPPLIER Surridge TRAINING KIT SPONSOR Jointing Tech WOMENS & GIRLS SQUAD SPONSOR Aldridge JUNIOR SQUAD SPONSOR Aldridge DISTRICT SQUAD SPONSOR Jointing Tech ACADEMY GROUND SPONSOR Hurstpierpoint College WEBSITE SPONSOR Focus Group ARUNDEL FESTIVAL SPONSOR Rathbone Investment Management EASTBOURNE FESTIVAL SPONSOR Brewers Decorator Centres
BOX HOLDERS 1st Central Insurance Cardens Class Technology Galloways Heineken Oliver & Graimes Preston Insurance Brokers Republic of Music CORPORATE PARTNERS Body Fuel Café Brighton Fire Alarms Capital Radio Cordery Coaches D.Wade Electrical Contractors Davis TV Dotsquares IEP Financial Infiniti Media Johnston Press L&S Printing LanGuard Alarms LoveLocalJobs.com Masuri Montefiore Hospital One Parking Solutions Quaff Fine Wine Merchant Rabbit Waste Management Ridgeview Wine Estate Rushfields Plant Centre SE Tyres Silver Star Cleaning Smile Group Travel Sporting Pay Sussex Transport Sutton Winson The George Hotel Wealden Ambulance Services COMMUNITY PARTNERS 1st Central Insurance Aldridge Chance to Shine Cow Corner ECB Lords Taverners
BOUNDARY CLUB MEMBERS Aerotron ABCOM IT Solutions Alpha Training Safety Solutions Avantis Wealth The Amex Stadium (Sodexo) ASL Group BCR Associates Begbies Traynor Brighton & Hove Albion FC BM Advisory Brewers Brighton Capital Management Brighton Fire Alarms Brighton Harbour Hotels Brighton Racecourse Business Doctors Cardens Accountants Chantler Kent Investments Chestnut Tree House City Cabs Close Brothers Invoice Finance Coapt Comicus Consort Frozen Foods Consortium Business Solutions Coole Bevis Cordery Coaches Corporate & Public Safety Cow Corner Davenport Property Investments Davis TV Dean Wilson Delta Group Dotsquares Body Fuel Café EMC EMW Law Engage Health Group European Office Supplies Extech Focus Group FRP Advisory Handelsbanken Hartley Fowler Hawes Building Healys Hotel du Vin Humphrey & Co IEP Financial Insightful Direction Irwin Mitchell IT Document Solutions Jelf Insurance MAJOR SPONSORS
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BOUNDARY CLUB MEMBERS John Jenkins Flooring Jointing Technologies Kendrick Property L&S Printing Lingfield Park Resort Loch Associates Group Mackley Mayo Wynne Baxter Mazars MCR Media MHA Carpenter Box Mid Sussex Golf Club Monk Marketing Montefiore Hospital NatWest Nsure Chartered Insurance Brokers OBC Accountants Oliver & Graimes Parkers Platinum Lace Plummer Parsons Porsche Centre Mid Sussex Premier Office Preston Insurance Brokers Quaff Fine Wine Merchant Quantuma Richard Place Dobson Ridgeview Wine Estate Rivervale Rix & Kay Solicitors Rushfields Plant Centre Search Consultancy Silver Star Cleaning Smile Group Travel SO Legal Square One Wealth Management SRC Corporate Finance Sussex Print Sussex Wealth Management Sutton Winson Swindells T Reeve & Son TFG Capital The George Hotel The Martlet Partnership The Platinum Publishing Group Thesis Asset Management ViiSana Watsons Associates Wealden Ambulance Wellesley Wealth Advisory White Maund Yes Promo Products
PLAYERS CLUB Alan Smith Andy Crumpton Andy Tugwell Carl Fillery Carl Turner Chris Brotherton Chris Edwards Chris Tugwell Clive Lauren Clive Roberts Damien Greenish Daniel Wade Danny Marshall Darren Wetherill Dave Day David Roodyn Gar Hine Gary Peters Gavin Graimes Ian Fletcher-Price Jamie Hall John Reeve Karen Wetherill Karl Tilling Mandy Bridson Mark Harper Mark Newman Martin Swann Matt Wood Matthew Rourke Mike Kempell Mike Punter Nik Askaroff Noel Preston Peter Underwood Phil Collins Richard Ball Spencer Giles Steve Moore Steve Tugwell Thomas Peel Tom Bewick Tony Westley
TUESDAY 6TH AUGUST 2019
Match Sponsor:
GLAMORGAN SQUAD 28
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Connor Brown 54
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Tom Cullen
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Mitch Marsh 21
Billy Root 42
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Timm van der Gugten
Craig Meschede
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Owen Morgan 49
Ruaidhri Smith
Nick Selman 8
Jeremy Lawlor 29
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Andrew Salter
Michael Hogan 44
Jamie McIlroy
Chris Cooke 6
Charlie Hemphrey 35
David Lloyd
Kiran Carlson
Lukas Carey 22
Marchant de Lang
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FRIDAY 9TH AUGUST 2019
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MIDDLESEX SQUAD 24
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George Scott
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James Harris 34
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THURSDAY 22ND AUGUST 2019
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FRIDAY 30TH AUGUST 2019
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STRONGER TOGETHER 1ST CENTRAL continues to actively support Sussex Cricket and the Sussex Cricket Foundation following a successful three-year partnership. After a thrilling T20 campaign last year we’re excited to see what the Sussex Sharks have in store for us this season. With Jason Gillespie at the helm and a flurry of superstars, we’re certain that this year is going to be a great success. We look forward to a fantastic year of cricket at The 1ST CENTRAL County Ground and we wish Sussex the best of luck.
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