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A day at the County Ground

Yesterday summer had come with fine sunny weather and a cooling sea breeze and what better place to enjoy if than at the county ground at Hove for the first day of the Championship game v Leicestershire? Leicestershire put Sussex into bat and took 3 wickets in the first session. Once again captain [...]

June 24, 2024 // 0 Comments

The US Open

With the Euros and T20 World Cup centre stage, the US Open has slipped under the radar. Yet they say it is the tourney that the Pros like to win. It begins at Pinehurst today, a demanding par 70 course which Martin Kaymer destroyed 10 years ago. In researching and deciding my staking plan, I [...]

June 13, 2024 // 0 Comments

Best Barbados XI

Mike Atherton is my favourite cricket writer and his column in The Times is a must read. In Tuesday’s edition – rather than stretch out England’s poor performance at the Kensington Oval last Saturday – he composed a well-crafted piece on Barbados, arguing that few places can [...]

June 12, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sussex sport on the march

Sussex Sharks sit atop their Southern Division Vitality Blast whilst the County Club top the second division of the Championship. Over last weekend the Sharks won away at the Oval over “moneybags” Surrey and then beat up Gloucestershire in Bristol. The County side have beaten Yorkshire, [...]

June 10, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sharks triumph & Seagulls still to appoint.

Whisper it softly to Duggie Heath, but I’m beginning to warm to T20 cricket. Last week, in the “red ball” championship, Middlesex and Sussex played out a bore draw in which neither side had a second innings. In contrast, the T20 Vitality Blast match between Sussex Sharks and [...]

June 1, 2024 // 0 Comments

Middlesex v Sussex

Yesterday I went to Lords as a guest of Duggie Heath. This fixture in my youth was played on the August Bank Holiday and attracted a crowd of 10,000 but at the most there were 5,000 spectators at Lords with the Edrich, Mound and Tavern stands all closed. It was an attritional day of cricket. Sussex [...]

May 25, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sussex win and ciao de Zerbi

The real sporting excitement in Brighton and Hove yesterday was not at the Amex where fans said goodbye to Roberto de Zerbi but at the county ground where Sussex CCC won a low scoring thriller by 21 runs over Yorkshire. At tea, Yorkshire only needed 25 runs with Adam Lyth and Revis installed at the [...]

May 20, 2024 // 0 Comments

Replacing the old with the new?

It’s a feature of our times that wiseacres presumptuously believe they can, should – and are entitled to – replace a core support by seeking a new one. Two examples of this are the BBC and county cricket. The BBC recently reshuffled their scheduling. The thinking behind this was [...]

May 9, 2024 // 0 Comments

Great cricket XIs

A friend of mine composed the best England Test team of his lifetime (he was born in 1959) which I will now share with you. Gooch, Cook, Root, Pietersen, Stokes , Botham, Knott, Swann, Broad, Andersen, Underwood. Having been born five years earlier, I might have included Ted Dexter, Fred Trueman [...]

May 6, 2024 // 0 Comments

Brighton 0 Manchester City 4

I was at the Amex for Brighton’s first ever game in the Premiership against Manchester City. When I looked at the comparative benches (I believe the City one contained Raheem Sterling) I feared for Brighton. We hung in there for an hour till Dale Stephens made an error in losing possession from [...]

April 26, 2024 // 0 Comments

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