[Cricket] Like Cricket? Which county do you support?

[jakarta]

Didn't get interested in County Cricket as Cheshire is a Minor County until Mrs Jakarta insisted upon me coming to Sussex to get hitched in 1995.

Went to a County Game at Horsham that Summer (vs. Notts from memory) and got hooked.

It helped that the team 2000 to 2010 won a lot of course but can't imagine a time that I won't be down the County Ground/Arundel/Horsham during the Summer.

 

[Lower West Stander]

Lancashire fan here. Parents from Manchester.

My mum’s a cricket nut. Impossible to support any other county for me.


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[Sid in the Sharknado]

Hants. Huge fan.

18 to choose from and you had to pick the evil one.

 

[Eeyore]

Born in Brighton but spent my early years in Notts. I was a member there for nine seasons during the Randall, Rice and Hadlee years
Ps as the song goes I don’t like cricket I love it

Were you a member in the 1981 season when they beat Sussex to the league by two points with pitches that were as green as a lawn after a month of rain ? #JustCan'tLetGo

 

[The Mole]

Were you a member in the 1981 season when they beat Sussex to the league by two points with pitches that were as green as a lawn after a month of rain ? #JustCan'tLetGo

Certainly was... best groundsman in the country!

 

[Eeyore]

Certainly was... best groundsman in the country!

There is a story that John Barclay went out to inspect the pitch before the Sussex match that year only to walk away and see the groundsman setting up stumps on a lawn 20 yards away...

Trent Bridge was pretty poor back then. The 81 Test was an example. I think they were dropped in 1982 for a season. It's a lot different these days.

 

[Slum_Wolf]

Sussex all the way despite never having lived within the county borders, only a few hundred years of family connections pre my generation. Guess I would fail Norman Tebbit's cricket test.

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

There is a story that John Barclay went out to inspect the pitch before the Sussex match that year only to walk away and see the groundsman setting up stumps on a lawn 20 yards away...

Trent Bridge was pretty poor back then. The 81 Test was an example. I think they were dropped in 1982 for a season. It's a lot different these days.

I'm pretty sure the Trent Bridge wicket had a perfectly good reputation before the 70s as well.

It's almost as if they were deliberately ploughing it up for a few years, for some reason

 

[Eeyore]

I'm pretty sure the Trent Bridge wicket had a perfectly good reputation before the 70s as well.

It's almost as if they were deliberately ploughing it up for a few years, for some reason

Although in fairness it was Hemmings that did for us in that match. Notts won by 1 wicket and Sussex gave up a 100 first innings lead. Sussex deserved the league that year but it was to be their best hope for a long time.

 

[GT49er]

Born in Sussex and became aware of cricket when I was living there - supported Sussex of course, and even worked the scoreboard for them one Sunday afternoon when they were playing at Polegate. Moved to Hampshire aged 9, and tried to change my allegiance, but in spite of many happy hours watching them when they played at May's Bounty in Basingstoke (and once playing on that hallowed turf myself), I never succeeded in changing my allegiance.

Sussex all the way!

 

[Ken Livingstone Seagull]

My love of cricket was instilled from my Mum who was born and raised in Taunton. She retired back to Weston-super-Mud and was a season ticket holder for years. She went to watch her heroes as a schoolgirl (unusual back then in the 30s) -- Arthur Wellard, Frank Lee, Donald Bradman, Jack Hobbs, Larwood et al. She had an extensive correspondence with another hero -- cricket writer Neville Cardus, and I have his letters here in Maui in a shoebox. Planning to write a book about that, and her golden era of cricket.

I have spent many a happy day with her and a cider watching the lads. My Dad was a Man of Kent, and he took me to watch my first games (Lords and Canterbury). So Kent are my second team along with Sussex. I used to play for U of S and for Kingston village (Lewes) back in the day. Miss cricket out here but the Willow channel shows the Test matches, so not all is lost.

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

Although in fairness it was Hemmings that did for us in that match. Notts won by 1 wicket and Sussex gave up a 100 first innings lead. Sussex deserved the league that year but it was to be their best hope for a long time.

Well if we're being fair I might admit that Hemming's 80 odd wickets that season suggest that Notts weren't entirely reliant on playing on cabbage patches to win points, but that's not nearly as much fun as claiming they were.

 

[Eeyore]

Well if we're being fair I might admit that Hemming's 80 odd wickets that season suggest that Notts weren't entirely reliant on playing on cabbage patches to win points, but that's not nearly as much fun as claiming they were.

The average first innings score at Trent Bridge that summer was 149... Notts won nine of their eleven home matches and won the toss in ten of them. On every occasion they put the opposition in. They only won twice away.

Clive Rice was open about it.

Fair to say Ron Allsop was their 12th man.

Not that I'm still bitter like.

 

[Gwylan]

Although in fairness it was Hemmings that did for us in that match. Notts won by 1 wicket and Sussex gave up a 100 first innings lead. Sussex deserved the league that year but it was to be their best hope for a long time.

It wasn't a loss, it was a draw. Notts last pair held on for, I think, five overs although the team were convinced Bore was LBW to Imran. It was some match, Notts were 27 runs short of a win. There was a short break of rain that lost Sussex seven overs, that could have turned it.

 

[Eeyore]

It wasn't a loss, it was a draw. Notts last pair held on for, I think, five overs although the team were convinced Bore was LBW to Imran. It was some match, Notts were 27 runs short of a win. There was a short break of rain that lost Sussex seven overs, that could have turned it.

Thanks for the correction. My brain was telling me that I had got something wrong and there had been some shenanigans in the final day.

I think it was August. We were in Torbay at the time. It might have been during the Old Trafford Test. Fog of memory. Weather was nice down in Devon.

 

[Pudos]

Sussex, even if I left the county they would still be my team.

Away from that anyone but Surrey, but think that's across all counties.

 

[essbee1]

Surrey. Oval about 45 minutes from my house by train. Went to T20 game between Middlesex and Surrey 15 years ago and
hated Middlesex (pompous) - so decided to follow Surrey.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Was concerned there may have been some Kent fans frequenting the board.

So far all clear.

 

[Brovion]

It's quite a good question. I was born in Surrey, my Palace-supporting Dad was also a huge Surrey fan (he much preferred cricket to football) and so naturally I was a Surrey fan too. And whilst I switched to Brighton quite soon after I moved to Sussex in 1965 (they quickly became my second team after Chelsea), I stayed supporting Surrey for much longer, indeed I went to Hove once for a John Player game in '75 or '76 to support Surrey against Sussex. We got thrashed so naturally I switched allegiance to Sussex

Now rather like with Chelsea, I obviously hate Surrey and consider myself a fully-naturalised citizen.

 

[GOM]

Sussex and Yorkshire. Been exiled up here for quite a while now and do like a day out at Headingley especially when they are playing the mob from the wrong side of the hills.