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Ivan Conway will be reporting on Sussex sport. He is a member of the 1901 club at Brighton HAFC, Sussex County Cricket Club and an enthusiastic horse race goer. After selling his freight forwarding and conference business he settled in Hove. His other interests are bird watching, brass rubbing and bridge. More Posts

The packaging of football

Yesterday at 9.00am there was a knock on the door from the postman. I was expecting a package from Amazon and left a note on my door that should I be out it could be left outside the door. There was a package there but not the one I ordered. Instead it was a package the size of a box of chocolates [...]

August 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sussex v Glamorgan

Yesterday I took Martine, a French friend of Bob Tickler, to her first cricket game. In the taxi to the ground from Brighton to Hove I managed to explain the T20 format, the tensions between the counties and the envisaged new metro T20 competition and the power shift from Lords to the sub-continent [...]

July 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Cheltenham Festival

Yesterday I travelled from the coast to Cheltenham to see Sussex play a Royal London 50 over match v Gloucestershire in the Cheltenham Festival week. I had two other motives: I had never seen cricket at Cheltenham and most of all I wanted to see again two brother Martin and Richard I met in [...]

July 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sussex v Pakistan

I have attended the last two days of Sussex v Pakistan. Sussex Sharks lost their T20 game at Glamorgan last Thursday night and the team did not return till the early hours of Friday. So we fielded a scratch side against the tourists. I had not heard of any of the three bowlers  and one Jefra [...]

July 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sussex Sharks bite

The Sussex Sharks assault on the T20 was beginning to look tepid with 2 points in the last 4 games prior to last night’s match against Middlesex. We won comfortably to overtake Middlesex into third place but it’s tight in the southern section. Our two spinners Danny Briggs and Paul Beer [...]

July 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Cricket at Arundel

Yesterday was the beginning of Arundel Festival week one of the most enjoyable events in the Sussex CCC calendar. Sadly the rain that has spoiled this summer and the cricket championship did not abate and play could only start at 2-30pm. Arundel is considered the most beautiful ground in the [...]

June 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hove Dogs

It  was good to see Bob Tickler back. We met up at Hove to watch his dog. He ran in the first race and it was felt the shorter distance might suit him after a lay off for injury. It did not and he never featured. Bob ruefully observed that he “bought a pup” but he is not yet two and [...]

June 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sussex v Essex /One Day Cup

A few years back when the new T20 began to flourish in terms of spectator appeal it was thought the one day game would be the sufferer. Now the red ball in all its forms looks more at risk. Sussex were the pioneers of the old Gillette Cup – winning the first two in 1963 and 1964 under the [...]

June 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hove, Amex and motoring incident

I went to Hove for the second day running to watch Sussex play Derbyshire. Derbyshire trail by 102 runs at 195-8 so the only block to a victory is the weather. Sunday had glorious weather and I would not have wished to be anywhere in the world than in the sun with a pint of Harvey’s in the [...]

May 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton races

Conscious that I’m described as racing man but have yet to report on it I went to Brighton Races yesterday for one of their bigger meets, Gentlemen’s  Day. The course has a great location near the Amex, perched atop the South Downs, and looking over them to the sea. It also features in [...]

May 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

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