[Cricket] Sussex CCC - 2023 Season Edition

[Surf's Up]

Does anyone here have a So Legal Executive Membership at Sussex ? It looks like it covers entry to all games and use of that area. Is that definitely correct ? I'm thinking of getting one. £390 seems pretty good value for everything all in.

Yes, I have. It covers all County Championship, T20 and 50 over games, is very comfortable with both external and indoor seating, Harveys is on tap a short walk (10 metres!) away as is a food outlet with a good lunchtime menu and teas, coffee etc. It's excellent value imho.

 

[Surf's Up]

Correction - not 10 metres away, more like 5.

 

[Eeyore]

Yes, I have. It covers all County Championship, T20 and 50 over games, is very comfortable with both external and indoor seating, Harveys is on tap a short walk (10 metres!) away as is a food outlet with a good lunchtime menu and teas, coffee etc. It's excellent value imho.

Mmm. So the sort of place I could sit and read a book whilst taking in a bit of cricket and staying warm if it's a bit nippy.

 

[A1X]

Incredibly niche stat but I enjoyed it

 

[CHAPPERS]

Strong squad available for this week's match

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Strong squad available for this week's match

When is Smith turning up?

 

[CHAPPERS]

When is Smith turning up?

Next month. He plays one game at Hove against Glamorgam (temporary home of Marnus Labuschagne).

 

[Pevenseagull]

When is Smith turning up?

Don't know when he's physically here but he's due for Worcestershire 4th May, Leicestershire the following week then just the one game at Hove (Glamorgan).

 

[Gwylan]

McAndrew and Robinson - decent opening attack (now that McAndrew has learned to bowl a bit fuller)

 

[SpongebobSquarepants]

Shame about the weather forecast.

 

[Trevor]

McAndrew and Robinson - decent opening attack (now that McAndrew has learned to bowl a bit fuller)

I think if Hunt plays he will open bowling. McAndrew would be a good first change. He improved through the first match. It takes a while getting used to the drop at Hove

 

[Eeyore]

Don't know when he's physically here but he's due for Worcestershire 4th May, Leicestershire the following week then just the one game at Hove (Glamorgan).

I don't know if I'm being unreasonable, but I still have issues about having Australians using county teams for an Ashes warm up. If they were fully fledged overseas signings in a summer then I'd be okay, but the Ashes is something special and. as pantomime as the rivalry is, I'm a bit humbug about giving them this opportunity. It's not like Smith needs it anyway.

I remember when Phil Hughes (RIP) did it with Middlesex in 2009 and it seemed rather baffling then. Although he didn't have the best of series.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I don't know if I'm being unreasonable, but I still have issues about having Australians using county teams for an Ashes warm up. If they were fully fledged overseas signings in a summer then I'd be okay, but the Ashes is something special and. as pantomime as the rivalry is, I'm a bit humbug about giving them this opportunity. It's not like Smith needs it anyway.

I remember when Phil Hughes (RIP) did it with Middlesex in 2009 and it seemed rather baffling then. Although he didn't have the best of series.

I'd much rather teams were given an opportunity to prepare for conditions properly than they just turn up and get rolled over on a green top for the first couple of matches.
Of course, that works both ways, and our preparation for the last Ashes series down under was, well non-existent.

 

[Gwylan]

I think if Hunt plays he will open bowling. McAndrew would be a good first change. He improved through the first match. It takes a while getting used to the drop at Hove

I doubt Hunt will play. Both Crocombe and FHP got a four-for last match, I can't see either of them getting dropped

 

[Pevenseagull]

I don't know if I'm being unreasonable, but I still have issues about having Australians using county teams for an Ashes warm up. If they were fully fledged overseas signings in a summer then I'd be okay, but the Ashes is something special and. as pantomime as the rivalry is, I'm a bit humbug about giving them this opportunity. It's not like Smith needs it anyway.

I remember when Phil Hughes (RIP) did it with Middlesex in 2009 and it seemed rather baffling then. Although he didn't have the best of series.

At least we haven't got Travis Head for a few games.

 

[Eeyore]

I'd much rather teams were given an opportunity to prepare for conditions properly than they just turn up and get rolled over on a green top for the first couple of matches.
Of course, that works both ways, and our preparation for the last Ashes series down under was, well non-existent.

Well, yes. Take a look at this schedule for Australia in 1981

AUSTRALIA IN ENGLAND : MAY/AUG 1981 (6 TESTS)

static.espncricinfo.com

EDIT- Didn't realise they played a day/night match at Bristol (Whitney played for Gloucs)

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Well, yes. Take a look at this schedule for Australia in 1981

AUSTRALIA IN ENGLAND : MAY/AUG 1981 (6 TESTS)

static.espncricinfo.com

EDIT- Didn't realise they played a day/night match at Bristol (Whitney played for Gloucs)

I always think it's better for any white ball games to be before the tests.
Of course, back then the ODIs would have been played with whites and a red ball, so they may as well have been warm up games anyway.
Apparently that match was for the opening of the Prince of Wales Stadium in Cheltenham [no, me neither ]. I suspect neither team were terribly invested in the outcome.

 

[Eeyore]

I always think it's better for any white ball games to be before the tests.
Of course, back then the ODIs would have been played with whites and a red ball, so they may as well have been warm up games anyway.
Apparently that match was for the opening of the Prince of Wales Stadium in Cheltenham [no, me neither ]. I suspect neither team were terribly invested in the outcome.

The result rather confirms that as so. Aussies just wanted to go home.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Well, yes. Take a look at this schedule for Australia in 1981

AUSTRALIA IN ENGLAND : MAY/AUG 1981 (6 TESTS)

static.espncricinfo.com

EDIT- Didn't realise they played a day/night match at Bristol (Whitney played for Gloucs)

Incidentally, I just looked at the Sussex v Australians game from that tour, and noticed we had a T Head behind the stumps for us, which I found vaguely amusing.
Looking Timothy Head up, it turned out that was his last game for us, in which he also scored his only first class half century.
He later (well into his 20s) played for Cambridge Uni, with one of his three first class games coming against Sussex.
There is, to be clear, no point to this, other than to highlight the quirks and coincidences that crop up when you look at old scorecards. And to briefly celebrate a player I'd never heard of, who happens to share a first initial and surname with an overseas player who did really badly for us.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

The result rather confirms that as so. Aussies just wanted to go home.

I can't imagine a team with Lillee and Border in it ever being that indifferent.
Given it's apparently mainly a rugby/athletics stadium, I suspect the pitch was shocking.