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About Ivan Conway

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

Sussex Awards Dinner

The end of season dinner took place two days after we were relegated. Any thoughts that it might turn into a wake were dispelled as it was a celebration of the careers of Matt Prior and Mike Yardy who both retired last season. Although the party line was the table does not lie, various excuses were [...]

September 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Squeaky bums at Sussex

The relegation issue of the County Championship between Hampshire and Sussex goes to the last day of the last match. Hampshire at Nottingham look set for victory, they need 110 runs with 10 wickets remaining. Sussex need 9 points to be safe. We already have 4 bowling and batting points so a draw at [...]

September 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

the Jap victory: a local view

When the sports editor asked me for a piece on what proved an enthralling upset yesterday I felt both inadequate and nervous. Rugby is not a sport I follow but the sports editor said that I know the Brighton sporting scene and could do a vox pop post. I have bored readers before on what a great [...]

September 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Reasons to celebrate

As I raised my pint of Harvey’s local brew over a sunlit Hove ground I had three reasons to celebrate. Firstly, Hampshire’s defeat after a contrived declaration by Yorkshire and themselves forfeiting their second innings meant that that our status should be secure. Secondly, Sussex were [...]

September 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Hull 0

I’m not a great one for outpouring of public, vicarious grief and bereavement. It seemed to start with the death of Princess Diana. Every decade’s anniversary of a tragedy is remembered though I cannot recall Liverpool doing too much on the anniversary of Heysel when 39 Juventus fans [...]

September 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sussex swim to safety

Sussex won the key relegation clash with Worcestershire by an innings and 63 runs. We dominated the game from start to finish with Luke Wright a double centurion. We did not get off to the best of starts when captan Ed Joyce was injured in the warm up amd Chris Nash took over as skipper. On a [...]

September 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

the Ladies Ashes

I went to the second game at the Hove for the Ladies Ashes with an open mind. Perhaps I have been too harsh in criticising the BBC for promoting women’s sport in general and cricket in particular. My conclusion was I have not. Why do spectators attend a sporting event? One obvious reason, [...]

August 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

a full day at Hove

I have an old friend, a barrister, who over the years has been kind to me and offered first rate advice and judgment in property matters in which he specialises. Earlier in the summer I invited him to choose a Sussex CCC match as he is an aficionado of county cricket and the one he selected was [...]

August 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sussex by the edge

Good old Sussex by the Sea is the song that heralds the cricket and football teams in Hove and the Amex.  It’s a rousing, cheerful, marching song but sadly in the case of the cricket season not reflective of our dire position. We are out of the T20, bottom of the Royal London and one from [...]

August 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sussex lose in the rain

Sussex lost by 3 runs last night in the Royal London Cup, the limited 50 over format which they were the first to dominate. Although the game went to the last ball most present did not think Sussex would overhaul the Middlesex total of 367. The key element in this innings was a first wicket stand [...]

August 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

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