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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 lose again

The Royal London Cup has worn many guises since Sussex first the Gillette Cup just over 50 years as the first limited overs format. This year’s competition did not get off to the best of starts for the Sharks with the game rained off at Horsham and losses to Hamsphire at Southampton and to [...]

July 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

Hubert Doggart

Hubert Doggart has just turned 90 and this remarkable man gave a speech at a birthday lunch in his honour at Horsham. He won no less than 5 blues in cricket, football, squash, fives and racquets and on his Cambridge debut scored 215 against Lancashire,scoring 2000 runs in one season. He and John [...]

July 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Horsham Festival

Festivals are an agreeable feature of the season when cricket is taken into and around the county. It’s not always viable – sponsorship was difficult to attract to Horsham. In his programme notes Chief Executive Zac Toumazi observed that if there is a fixture cutback there may be doubts [...]

July 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sharks win and nearly there

Last night in the T20 blast Sussex Sharks beat Glamorgan comfortably to achieve second place in the southern section. Next Friday we play fourth place Hampshire and finish with an away game at the Oval against Surrey. One win should suffice. Glamorgan posted 164, a competitive total. Once again [...]

July 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Killer Sharks

Sussex Sharks won their fourth game on the bounce at Lords last night against Middlesex taking us to the  top of the Southern Section. Every victory was away from Hove but today we return to our home ground to play the Kent Spitfires. Victory should ensure passage to the semis. The hero last night [...]

July 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

A dinner with Sir Garry Sobers

As part of the Luke Wright benefit year a golf day and dinner was organised at East Sussex National last night. Luke Wright was not there, he was hitting the winning run off the last ball against Gloucestershire in the T 20 blast but the greatest cricketer of all time was. With his crinkly silvery [...]

June 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ivan again

It’s becoming the Ivan Conway show as yet again I’m posting. Hopefully the readers will bear with me. This time its more about Matt Prior and cycling. I saw Matt at the Players Club at Arundel  and later at at Luke Wright’s Dinner at the Old Forge Storrington. Matt was with [...]

June 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Life as it should be lived

First, my apologies to any disgruntled readers who in the past week may have felt that the Rust had been taken over by myself or indeed cricket. In a rare break from my traditional loyalties to Sussex CCC, yesterday I accepted a long-standing invitation from a doyen (and former President) of Surrey [...]

June 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Arundel: part two

It was kind of the sports editor to let me post on two consecutive days but it’s not that often that a game involving Surrey makes the headlines without any reference to Kevin Pietersen. Thankfully Rory Burns and Moises Henriques are going to be alright although the latter has had to have his [...]

June 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Events, dear boy,events

Harold Macmillan famously observed that he could cope with political decisions but that it was the events that were much harder. En route to and at Arundel there were two events which required immediate judgment and both came out of the blue. The first happened on the train at Hove station. A young [...]

June 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

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