Sussex County Cricket Club
| Sussex County Cricket Club | |
|---|---|
| One-day name | Sussex Sharks |
| founded | 1839 |
| Home stadium | County Cricket Ground |
| capacity | 7,000 |
| other stages | Cricket Field Road Ground , Horsham Arundel Castle Cricket Ground , Arundel The Saffrons , Eastbourne |
| Championship wins | 3 |
| One Day Cup victories | FP Trophy : 5 National League : 3 B&H Cup : 0 ECB 40 : 0 RL Cup : 0 |
| T20 Cup victories | 1 |
| website | www.sussexcricket.co.uk/ |
| As of September 16, 2016 | |
The Sussex County Cricket Club represents traditional Sussex county in the national championships of English cricket . It is the oldest county cricket club in England and by its own account the oldest professional sports club in the world.
history
The beginnings
The first mention of cricket in Sussex comes from 1611, when Sidlesham 's low attendance at church on Easter Sunday was attributed to a game. Since then, games have been played by teams called Sussex, increasing over the 18th century. However, a fixed form of organization did not follow until 1836 after the Sussex Cricket Fund was used at a meeting in Brighton . From this emerged with the Sussex County Cricket Club on March 1, 1839, the first county cricket club in England and one of the first professional sports clubs ever. The first first class game took place in June of that year against the Marylebone Cricket Club . Between 1826 and 1890, the county won the unofficial county championship seven times and divided it one more time. Since its inception in the 19th century, the club has had four playing areas in Brighton and Hove . In 1871 the field on Eaton Road in Hove, which is now the County Cricket Ground , was acquired. With the beginning of the County Championship in the 1890 season , Sussex took part in the official championship. In the first few years the club struggled, placed three times (1890, 1892 and 1896 ) at the bottom of the table and was otherwise mostly in the lower half of the table. The captains of the first years were the Australian Billy Murdoch and Kumar Ranjitsinhji and playfully Charles Fry and George Cox, Sr. played a major role in improving the situation towards the end of the decade. Ranjitsinhji in particular ensured that the team stabilized with his over 3000 runs , which he achieved in 1899 and 1900 respectively. Third place in 1900 and second place in the County Championship in 1902 and 1903 . In 1902, Sussex had a total of seven national players in its ranks. After these good years, they were mostly placed in the middle of the field again until the First World War.
After the First World War
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Even between the wars, Sussex was a team that stayed in the middle of the table for a long time. As batsman , John Langridge and his brother James were very successful in these years and together with Maurice Tate and Kumar Duleepsinhji they brought the club back to the top of the table in the late 1920s. In the three seasons of 1932 , 1933 and 1934 , the club got three second places in a row under Tate as captain, before slipping back into midfield by the Second World War. After the Second World War, little changed at first. After Jim Parks joined the team as a batsman, he came second again in 1953 . In the following ten years, three fourth places followed, but otherwise they were mostly back in the middle of the field. The first success followed with the introduction of one-day cricket . With Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi , among others, captain Ted Dexter won the first one-day trophy, the 1963 Gillette Cup . The title could be repeated in the following year . In the County Championship you were from now until the end of the 1970s mostly in the lower half of the table. Players at this time were John Snow , Tony Greig , Garth LeRoux and Imran Khan , who won the Gillette Cup third in 1978 . From there on, the county championship went up again and so the team reached second place for the seventh time in 1981 , but ultimately had to admit defeat Nottinghamshire . In the following year , the John Player League won , but the club slipped from then to the 2000s in first-class cricket again in the lower table regions. During this time he won another NatWest Trophy in 1986 .
The golden decade
After starting in 2000 had to compete in the then divided into two divisions County Championship in the lower class, succeeded in 2001 of promotion to the first division. Under captain Chris Adams , the bowler Mushtaq Ahmed was brought to the club in 2003 for an average salary with commitments for high bonuses with high wicket numbers . He scored the highest wicket count in the league of the season, leading Sussex to its first ever championship win. Together with Richard Montgomerie , Murray Goodwin , Matt Prior and James Kirtley , they started the club's golden decade. Ahmed was also the leading scorer of wickets in the next few seasons, but not as strong as in 2003. So the team came in sixth and third place in 2004 and 2005, respectively . When Ahmed got stronger again over the next two seasons, Sussex won the championship two more times in 2006 and 2007 . Overall, Ahmed had scored the most wickets in county cricket five times in a row before he had to resign due to injury in 2008. In addition, Sussex won the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy in 2006 and the NatWest Pro40 in 2008 . In 2009 they were relegated from the first division in the County Championship, but were able to win two trophies with the NatWest Pro40 and the Twenty20 Cup . The following year , Sussex was able to rise again and only rose again in 2015 .
Stadion
The club's home ground is the County Cricket Ground in Hove . Other stadiums used today as home ground are the Cricket Field Road Ground in Horsham , the Arundel Castle Cricket Ground in Arundel and The Saffrons in Eastbourne .
successes
County cricket
- Winning the County Championship (3): 2003 , 2006 , 2007
One-day cricket
- Gilette / NatWest / C & G Trophy / FP Trophy (1963-2009) (5): 1963 , 1964 , 1978 , 1986 , 2006
- Sunday / National / Pro40 League (1969–2009) (3): 1982 , 2008 , 2009
Twenty20
statistics
Runs
Most of the first-class cricket runs were scored by the following players:
| player | Playing times | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| John Langridge | 1928-1955 | 34,150 |
| Ken Suttle | 1949-1971 | 29,375 |
| Jim Parks | 1949-1972 | 29,138 |
| James Langridge | 1924-1953 | 28,894 |
| Ted Bowley | 1912-1934 | 25,439 |
Wickets
Most of the wickets in first-class cricket were scored by the following players:
| player | Playing times | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| Maurice Tate | 1912-1937 | 2.211 |
| George Cox | 1895-1928 | 1,810 |
| Albert Relf | 1900-1921 | 1,594 |
| Ian Thomson | 1952-1972 | 1,527 |
| James Langridge | 1924-1953 | 1,416 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Sam Collins: A brief history of Sussex ( English ) Cricinfo. January 29, 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
- ↑ Other Matches Played by Sussex (Pre County Club) ( English ) Cricket Archive. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
- ^ A b Pictoral History of Sussex County Cricket Club ( English ) Sussex CCC. Archived from the original on September 16, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
- ↑ Marylebone Cricket Club v Sussex in 1839 ( English ) Cricket archives. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
- ^ Club History: The oldest Club in the UK ( English ) Sussex CCC. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
- ^ A b Angus Fraser: Mushtaq's forced retirement ends greatest era for Sussex ( English ) Independent. August 28, 2008. Retrieved September 16, 2016.
- ↑ Most runs for Sussex ( English ) Cricket archives. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
- ↑ Most wickets for Sussex ( English ) Cricket Archive. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
