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	<updated>2012-02-08T18:11:05Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Financial Crisis Facing County Cricket]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I have set up this thread for discussing the financial crisis facing county cricket. A number of counties will be reporting their annual accounts this month, so these earnings can be added to the list below. These are operating profit/loss figures and do not include monies made from land sales.</p><p>2010:</p><p>Derbyshire: £187,037 LOSS<br />Durham: £938,000 LOSS<br />Essex: £40,000 LOSS<br />Glamorgan: £366,301 LOSS<br />Gloucestershire: £216,000 LOSS<br />Hampshire: £900,000 LOSS<br />Kent: £595,000 LOSS<br />Lancashire: £2.1m LOSS<br />Leicestershire: £404,862 LOSS<br />Middlesex: £237,000 LOSS<br />Northamptonshire: £27,439 LOSS<br />Nottinghamshire: £189,370 PROFIT<br />Somerset: £75,000 PROFIT<br />Surrey: £502,000 LOSS<br />Sussex: £171,000 LOSS<br />Warwickshire: £2,102,883 LOSS<br />Worcestershire: £103,000 PROFIT<br />Yorkshire: £2m LOSS</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[softandfluffy]]></name>
				<uri>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/user/31299/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-02-08T18:11:05Z</updated>
			<id>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/6558/the-financial-crisis-facing-county-cricket/new/posts/</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Morgan Wins]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7031/morgan-wins/new/posts/"/>
			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cricket-2012/content/current/story/548864.html" target="_blank">http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cric &#133; 48864.html</a></p><p>Too dramatic to say I personally am done with it all - but Im sick and tired of being a customer in an industry that has precious few customers and, not so much being ignored, as having the industry virtually thumb its nose at me.</p>]]></summary>
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				<name><![CDATA[SPSL11]]></name>
				<uri>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/user/18241/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-02-08T12:03:10Z</updated>
			<id>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7031/morgan-wins/new/posts/</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Match & Spot Fixing: The Great Cricket Scandal - The Latest!]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/6464/match-spot-fixing-the-great-cricket-scandal-the-latest/new/posts/"/>
			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>What a laugh!&nbsp; <img src="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/img/smilies/big_smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="big_smile" /> </p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/9346500.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/9346500.stm</a></p>]]></summary>
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				<name><![CDATA[3rdman]]></name>
				<uri>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/user/31299/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-02-08T09:54:33Z</updated>
			<id>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/6464/match-spot-fixing-the-great-cricket-scandal-the-latest/new/posts/</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Spam attack!]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7020/spam-attack/new/posts/"/>
			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>well we seem to have been attacked by a spammer overnight - hopefully club can get rid of him fairly soon</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Big D 79]]></name>
				<uri>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/user/2655/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-02-07T13:37:05Z</updated>
			<id>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7020/spam-attack/new/posts/</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Quiz & Curry Night Thurs 2nd Feb]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Next one on the date above. Hope to see you all there. Already more or less done the questions. Heres how to book</p><p><a href="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/news/3099/quiz-february-curry-and-quiz-night/" target="_blank">http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/news/309 &#133; uiz-night/</a></p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[SPSL11]]></name>
				<uri>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/user/2655/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-02-03T18:14:03Z</updated>
			<id>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7042/quiz-curry-night-thurs-2nd-feb/new/posts/</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Even more irritating than Swing Low Sweet Chariot at Twickenham]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7044/even-more-irritating-than-swing-low-sweet-chariot-at-twickenham/new/posts/"/>
			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Is the tuneless singing of Jerusalem by the English supporters (I&#039;m not going to call them barmy army because they&#039;re just a disparate band of England fans) not least because there&#039;s 2 verses.</p><p>And what&#039;s utterly pointless is all this gay clapping after they&#039;ve sung it.</p><p>When I was in Napier sitting in one of the stands, the other English supporters were on this bank in another part of the ground with the ritualistic clapping after their rendition and these wallies in the stand joined in with the stupid, self-congratulatory applause&nbsp; <img src="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/img/smilies/roll.png" width="15" height="15" alt="roll" /></p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[tiptoes]]></name>
				<uri>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/user/30302/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-02-02T16:08:13Z</updated>
			<id>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7044/even-more-irritating-than-swing-low-sweet-chariot-at-twickenham/new/posts/</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[2012 season]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7059/2012-season/new/posts/"/>
			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>According to this <a href="http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?agency=SUSSEXCC&amp;organ_val=22918&amp;schedule=list" target="_blank">http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketP &#133; edule=list</a></p><p>Sussex are playing Notts at Hove in a LVCC match on 27th May. Clicking to see how much the ticket is, you will find it is £25.</p><p>£25 a seat for the fourth day, you have got to be joking.</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Adam Matthews]]></name>
				<uri>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/user/1033/</uri>
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			<updated>2012-02-02T09:17:04Z</updated>
			<id>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7059/2012-season/new/posts/</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[BASIL D'OLIVEIRA - DIES]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/6970/basil-doliveira-dies/new/posts/"/>
			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/15803140.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/15803140.stm</a></p><p>Sad news. Will always remember my parents taking a special interest in cricket when he graced the crease.</p>]]></summary>
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				<name><![CDATA[serchers]]></name>
				<uri>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/user/9483/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-01-26T22:32:20Z</updated>
			<id>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/6970/basil-doliveira-dies/new/posts/</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Giles Clarke]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Giles Clarke get an OBE for services to Cricket!&nbsp; <img src="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/img/smilies/lol.png" width="15" height="15" alt="lol" />&nbsp; <img src="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/img/smilies/lol.png" width="15" height="15" alt="lol" />&nbsp; <img src="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/img/smilies/lol.png" width="15" height="15" alt="lol" /> <br />That tells you all you need to know about the honours system..........</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[RFawden]]></name>
				<uri>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/user/183/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-01-26T20:10:38Z</updated>
			<id>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7021/giles-clarke/new/posts/</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Messageboard Jolly 2012]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;m not sure if we already have a thread for this (I&#039;ve probably missed it!)<br />Is there going to be one? If so where? and don&#039;t say Southend!</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[silasgreenback]]></name>
				<uri>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/user/183/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-01-26T19:13:21Z</updated>
			<id>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7055/messageboard-jolly-2012/new/posts/</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Indian cricket - bubble bursting?]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Well no it probably isn&#039;t, but all isn&#039;t rosy in the Garden with them getting tonked by the Aussies for their second 4-0 series loss in a row.</p><p>This article talks about the financial implications for the star players and the reduction of their commercial worth <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/test-collapse-tipped-to-hit-indians-pay-packets-hard-20120125-1qhuw.html" target="_blank">http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/tes &#133; 1qhuw.html</a></p><p>In the same way I feel that England wouldn&#039;t be bothered if 50 over cricket suddenly disappeared I reckon it&#039;s the same for the Indians with tests. </p><p>Will we ever see the day when a country could opt out of a particular format? Or where one team is being used as a purely developmental side?</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[serchers]]></name>
				<uri>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/user/24692/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-01-26T15:38:49Z</updated>
			<id>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7052/indian-cricket-bubble-bursting/new/posts/</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Ask Robbo...]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7054/ask-robbo/new/posts/"/>
			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Get the inside track on Sussex’s preparations for the new season by posing a question to our Professional Cricket Manager Mark Robinson with the latest Q &amp; A.</p><p>Sussex’s squad have now returned from the Caribbean T20 tournament and will be continuing their training in the slightly chillier climate of Hove with the aid of the Farnrise Indoor School.</p><p>Robbo will be hoping to guide the team to glory in 2012 and you might want to quiz the Coach on the plans for the new season, overseas players, young stars on the fringes of the team or who he thinks will be the toughest opponents at The PROBIZ.</p><p>E-mail your questions to – adam.matthews@sussexcricket.co.uk - before 5pm next Friday (3rd February) and we will fire the questions at Mark. We will then relay his answers back to the masses on <a href="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk" target="_blank">www.sussexcricket.co.uk</a></p><p> <img src="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Adam Matthews]]></name>
				<uri>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/user/17672/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-01-26T12:07:33Z</updated>
			<id>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7054/ask-robbo/new/posts/</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Big Bash]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/6997/big-bash/new/posts/"/>
			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>does anyone know if the Australian Big Bash series is being shown at all over in the UK? would be good to keep an eye out for Wright and others.</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Big D 79]]></name>
				<uri>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/user/15531/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-01-24T18:37:11Z</updated>
			<id>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/6997/big-bash/new/posts/</id>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Most Balls Faced in an Innings]]></title>
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			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Does anyone know what it is?</p><p>The reason I raised this is that in the Ranji Trophy final Vineet Saxena is 207* having faced 555 balls or 92 overs and 3 balls!!!!!! Which is an amazing effort, in fact it&#039;s more than England managed in either innings of the test.</p><p><a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-domestic-2011/engine/current/match/522988.html" target="_blank">http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-dome &#133; 22988.html</a></p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[Inkyfingers]]></name>
				<uri>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/user/183/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-01-23T22:30:29Z</updated>
			<id>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7047/most-balls-faced-in-an-innings/new/posts/</id>
		</entry>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Worcestershire]]></title>
			<link rel="alternate" href="http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7024/worcestershire/new/posts/"/>
			<summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Lots of tweets tonight about a big announcement tomorrow morning in Worcester.<br />Serchers do you have the scoop?</p>]]></summary>
			<author>
				<name><![CDATA[The Paperboy]]></name>
				<uri>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/user/183/</uri>
			</author>
			<updated>2012-01-13T15:29:05Z</updated>
			<id>http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/fanzone/message-board/topic/7024/worcestershire/new/posts/</id>
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