Sussex County Cricket Club
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Sussex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Sussex. Its limited overs team is called the Sussex Sharks.
The club plays most of its home games at the County Cricket Ground, Hove. The club also plays some games around the county at Arundel, Eastbourne and Horsham.
Having won its first-ever official County Championship title in 2003, Sussex repeated the success in 2006. The 2006 title was secured following a victory against Nottinghamshire, in which Sussex outplayed their hosts by an innings and 245 runs [1].
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[edit] Honours
- Champion County (7) - 1826, 1827, 1833, 1836, 1845, 1848, 1855; shared (1) - 1852
- County Championship (2) - 2003, 2006
- Division Two (1) - 2001
- Gillette/NatWest/C&G Trophy (5) - 1963, 1964, 1978, 1986, 2006
- Sunday/National League (1) - 1982
- Division Two (2) - 1999, 2005
- Twenty20 Cup (0) -
[edit] Second XI honours
- Second XI Championship (2) - 1978, 1990; shared (0) -
- Second XI Trophy (1) - 2005
- Minor Counties Championship (0) - ; shared (0) -
[edit] Earliest cricket
Sussex, along with Kent, is the birthplace of cricket. It is widely believed that cricket was invented by children living on the Weald in Saxon or Norman times.
See : History of cricket to 1696
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 were first recorded in 1725. From 1741, Richmond patronised the famous Slindon club, whose team was representative of the county.
For information about Sussex county teams before the formation of Sussex CCC, see : Sussex county cricket teams
[edit] Origin of club
Although Sussex had been a major cricket centre since the 17th century, there had apparently been no move towards a permanent county organisation until 17 June 1836 when a meeting in Brighton set up a Sussex Cricket Fund to support county matches. It was from this organisation that Sussex County Cricket Club was formally constituted on 1 March 1839.
Sussex CCC played its initial first-class match versus MCC at Lord's on 10 & 11 June 1839. The club has been regarded as first-class continuously since its formation.
Sussex CCC is England's oldest county cricket club.
[edit] Players with most first-class appearances
- Jim Parks junior
- James Langridge
- Maurice Tate
- George Cox senior
- Ken Suttle
- John Langridge
- Albert Relf
- Harry Butt
- Joe Vine
- Alan Oakman
- Ted Bowley
[edit] Club captains
A full list can be found at: Category:Sussex cricket captains
[edit] 2006 squad
- Chris Adams, captain, right hand bat, right arm off spin
- Mushtaq Ahmed, right hand bat, leg break
- Murray Goodwin, right hand bat, right arm leg spin
- Sean Heather, right hand bat, right arm medium
- Andrew Hodd, wicket keeper, right hand bat
- Carl Hopkinson, right hand bat, right arm medium
- James Kirtley, right hand bat, right arm fast - medium
- Jason Lewry, left hand bat, left arm fast - medium
- Tim Linley, right hand bat, right arm fast - medium
- Robin Martin-Jenkins, right hand bat, right arm fast - medium
- Richard Montgomerie, right hand bat, right arm off spin
- Christopher Nash, right hand bat, right arm off spin
- Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, right hand bat, right arm medium
- Matthew Prior, wicket keeper, right hand bat
- Oliver Raynor, right hand bat, right arm off spin
- Neil Turk, left hand bat, right arm medium
- Luke Wright, right hand bat, right arm medium
- Michael Yardy, left hand bat, slow left arm spin
- Yasir Arafat, Right hand bat,Right arm medium
[edit] References
- A Social History of English Cricket by Derek Birley
- Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians - various publications
- Cricket: History of its Growth and Development by Rowland Bowen
- Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket by G B Buckley (FL18)
- Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket by G B Buckley (FLPV)
- From the Weald to the World by Peter Wynne-Thomas (PWT)
- Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records by Peter Wynne-Thomas
- Playfair Cricket Annual : various issues
- Pre-Victorian Sussex Cricket by HF & AP Squire (PVSC)
- Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 by Arthur Haygarth (SBnnn)
- Start of Play by David Underdown
- Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century by Timothy J McCann (TJM)
- The Cricketer magazine (Cktr)
- The Dawn of Cricket by H T Waghorn (WDC)
- Wisden Cricketers Almanack (annual): various issues
[edit] External links
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