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Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Sussex. Its limited overs team is called the Sussex Sharks. The club was founded in 1839 as a successor to the various Sussex county cricket teams, including the old Brighton Cricket Club, which had been representative of the county of Sussex as a whole since the 1720s. The club has always held first-class status. Sussex have competed in the County Championship since the official start of the competition in 1890 and have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England.[1]
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| One Day name | Sussex Sharks | |||
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| Personnel | ||||
| Captain | John Simpson | |||
| One Day captain | John Simpson (List A) Tymal Mills (T20) | |||
| Coach | Paul Farbrace | |||
| Overseas player(s) | Daniel Hughes Nathan McAndrew Jayden Seales Jaydev Unadkat | |||
| Team information | ||||
| Founded | 1839 | |||
| Home ground | County Cricket Ground, Hove | |||
| Capacity | 6,000 | |||
| History | ||||
| First-class debut | MCC in 1839 at Lord's | |||
| Championship wins | 3 | |||
| National League/Pro40 wins | 3 | |||
| FP Trophy wins | 5 | |||
| Twenty20 Cup wins | 1 | |||
| NatWest Pro40 wins | 1 | |||
| Official website | sussexcricket | |||
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The club colours are traditionally blue and white and the shirt sponsors are Galloways Accounting for the LV County Championship and Dafabet for Royal London One-Day Cup matches and Vitality Blast T20 matches. Its home ground is the County Cricket Ground, Hove. Sussex also play matches around the county at Arundel, Eastbourne and Horsham.
Sussex won its first official County Championship title in 2003 and subsequently became the dominant team of the decade, repeating the success in 2006 and 2007. In 2006 Sussex achieved ‘the double’, beating Lancashire to clinch the C&G Trophy, before winning the County Championship following an emphatic victory against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge, in which Sussex defeated their hosts by an innings and 245 runs.[2] Sussex then won the title for the third time in five years in 2007, when in a nail-biting finale on the last day of the season,[3] Sussex defeated Worcestershire early in the day and then had to wait until past five o'clock as title rivals Lancashire narrowly failed to beat Surrey – prompting relieved celebrations at the County Cricket Ground, Hove.[4] Sussex enjoyed further limited overs success with consecutive Pro40 wins in 2008 and 2009 as well as beating Somerset at Edgbaston to lift the 2009 Twenty20 Cup. The south coast county ended the decade having won ten trophies in ten years.
On 1 November 2015, Sussex County Cricket Club (SCCC) merged with the Sussex Cricket Board (SCB) to form a single governing body for cricket in Sussex, called Sussex Cricket Limited (SCL).[5]
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Sussex, along with Kent, is believed to be the birthplace of cricket. It is believed that cricket was invented by children living on the Weald in Anglo-Saxon or Norman times.[11]
The first definite mention of cricket in Sussex relates to ecclesiastical court records in 1611 which state that two parishioners of Sidlesham in West Sussex failed to attend church on Easter Sunday because they were playing cricket. They were fined 12d each and made to do penance.
Cricket became established in Sussex during the 17th century and the earliest village matches took place before the English Civil War. It is believed that the earliest county teams were formed in the aftermath of the Restoration in 1660. In 1697, the earliest "great match" recorded was for 50 guineas apiece between two elevens at a venue in Sussex.
Matches involving the two great Sussex patrons Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond and Sir William Gage, 7th Baronet were first recorded in 1725. The earliest known use of Sussex in a match title occurred in 1729. From 1741, Richmond patronised the famous Slindon Cricket Club, whose team was representative of the county.
After the death of Richmond in 1751, Sussex cricket declined until the emergence of the Brighton club at its Prince of Wales Ground in 1790. This club sustained cricket in Sussex through the Napoleonic Wars and, as a result, the county team was very strong in the 1820s when it included the great bowlers Jem Broadbridge and William Lillywhite.
On 17 June 1836, the Sussex Cricket Fund was set up to support county matches, after a meeting in Brighton. This led directly to the formation of Sussex County Cricket Club on 1 March 1839, England's oldest county club. The side played its initial first-class match against MCC at Lord's in June 1839.[11]
The Sussex crest depicts a mythological, footless bird called the Martlet, and is similar to Coat of arms of Sussex. Capped players have six martlets on their sweaters, and the crest with gold trimming on their caps; uncapped players instead have only the club crest on their left breast, and white trimming on their caps.[7]
In total, Sussex CCC have played at 17 grounds, four of which have been in Brighton and Hove. The first County match was played at Eaton Road on 6 June 1872 against Gloucestershire.[7] Currently, the main venue for the club's First and Second XI is The County Ground in Hove, although matches are also played regularly at the grounds at Arundel and Horsham. Other grounds for first class matches have included Sheffield Park, Chichester, Worthing, Eastbourne and Hastings.[7]
| No. | Name | Nationality | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes |
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| Batters | ||||||
| 20 | Tom Haines* |  England | 28 October 1998 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | |
| 24 | Zach Lion-Cachet ‡ |  Netherlands | 15 December 2003 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
| 27 | Tom Clark | England | 27 February 2001 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | |
| 30 | James Coles* | England | 2 April 2004 | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| 35 | Harrison Ward | England | 25 October 1999 | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | White ball contract |
| 45 | Tom Alsop* | England | 26 November 1995 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| 89 | Daniel Hughes* |  Australia | 16 February 1989 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | Overseas player |
| All-rounders | ||||||
| 10 | Danny Lamb | England | 7 September 1995 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
| 13 | Bertie Foreman | England | 13 May 2004 | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | |
| 33 | Fynn Hudson-Prentice* | England | 12 January 1996 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
| 40 | Danial Ibrahim | England | 9 August 2004 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
| 42 | Henry Rogers | England | 1 April 2006 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
| Wicket-keepers | ||||||
| 9 | John Simpson* ‡ | England | 13 July 1988 | Left-handed | — | Club captain |
| 11 | Oli Carter | England | 2 November 2001 | Right-handed | — | |
| 28 | Charlie Tear ‡ |  Scotland | 12 June 2004 | Right-handed | — | |
| Bowlers | ||||||
| 5 | Henry Crocombe | England | 20 September 2001 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
| 7 | Tymal Mills* ‡ | England | 12 August 1992 | Right-handed | Left-arm fast | T20 captain White ball contract |
| 12 | Brad Currie ‡ | Scotland | 8 November 1998 | Right-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | White ball contract |
| 14 | Jayden Seales* ‡ |  West Indies | 10 September 2001 | Left-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Overseas player |
| 16 | Jack Carson* |  Ireland | 3 December 2000 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
| 21 | Sean Hunt | England | 7 December 2001 | Right-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | |
| 22 | Jofra Archer* ‡ | England | 1 April 1995 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | England central contract |
| 25 | Ollie Robinson* ‡ | England | 1 December 1993 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
| 32 | Jack Campbell | England | 11 November 1999 | Right-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | |
| 36 | Ari Karvelas ‡ |  Greece | 20 March 1994 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
| 41 | Archie Lenham | England | 23 July 2004 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | |
| 43 | Nathan McAndrew | Australia | 14 July 1993 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | Overseas player |
| 91 | Jaydev Unadkat* ‡ |  India | 18 October 1991 | Right-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | Overseas player |
| Source:[12] Updated: 2 October 2022 | ||||||
This list includes those Sussex players who have played in Test cricket since 1877, One Day International cricket since 1971, or have made an outstanding contribution (e.g.: scoring most runs or taking most wickets in a season).
Afghanistan 
Australia
Bangladesh 
Bermuda 
England
England / Sri Lanka 
Greece
India
Ireland
Italy
Namibia 
Netherlands
New Zealand 
Pakistan 
Scotland
South Africa 
Sri Lanka
West Indies
Zimbabwe 
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Most first-class runs for Sussex
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Most first-class wickets for Sussex
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