Sussex Cricket Message Board - Matches

Pakistan v England series

2012-02-07T12:13:02Z

Well this isnt far away - starts on Tuesday. Pakistan seem to have a few decent bowlers, although perhaps lack class in their batting. We may, I suppose, see Monty in action, but somehow doubt England will go down the 2 spinner route. Recent series here, have had fairly batsmen-friendly pitches, so may be difficult to force home a win.
England may be a bit rusty, so this might be a bit of a struggle for them, but England should really be too strong for them

2XI fixtures

2012-01-31T21:30:29Z

http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/season/f … m=2nd%20XI

Sussex have home games at Blackstone, Probiz, Arundel, Preston Nomads, Stirlands and Horsham.

NZ v Zimbabwe

2012-01-28T23:13:03Z

The opposition were bowled out twice in one day by NZ.

T20 in WI - January

2012-01-28T07:05:57Z

Surprised no-one has put up something about this already so Frawdy will.

Robbo has intim, intamat, intamanan, said that youngsters with little experience so far will feature heavily - so what starting eleven?

Nash
Wright
Machan
Wells
Gatting
Brown
Wernars
Adkin
Beer
Hatchett
Liddle

That's my side. Nash captain.

Any news on pre-season friendlies?

2012-01-26T10:06:10Z

Any news on pre-season friendlies? (And I mean games you don't have to fly to the Caribbean to see...) I heard talk of a repeat of last season's visit to the bankrupt Canterbury building site on March 29, but have not seen any announcement.

With the early start to the season there have been some ridiculously early warm-up games announced. Essex and Surrey are planning to play each other at Chelmsford on March 21 - which must surely be some sort of record as the game takes place on the official solstice between winter and sping!

Melbourne Stars

2012-01-21T12:01:04Z

Luke starts his Big Bash season tomorrow. For those up early enough you should be able to watch the game here.

http://www.kfctwenty20bigbash.livesport.tv/watchlive

Barbados v Sussex

2012-01-19T16:16:46Z

Well i can see were all looking forward to this one tonight, but not much to play for, I suppose, other than a bit of pride/practice and perhaps a chance to catch the captain's eye. Will Dwayne take us to the cleaners do we reckon? i think the pitch should be a bit more batsman-friendly anyway

looking forward to waking up in the morning to hear of a comprehensive Sussex victory

Sussex v Combined Colleges & Campuses 14th January 8pm

2012-01-19T02:59:47Z

And today for Cable TV viewers, we have a choice of action;

On Sky Sports you can watch South Africa v Sri Lanka

and on ESPN you can watch Sussex v CCC

Or to put it another way it is a choice between Dale Steyn or the Stale Dane

Berdum-bum

I'll get mi'coat

Unicorns v Sussex

2012-01-18T17:09:16Z

Any ideas why this is to be played in Southend? A small crowd seems inevitable. Why isn't it being played somewhere in Sussex?

Sussex V Lancashire

2012-01-18T14:55:16Z

I see that the CC game at Hove is being shown live on Sky

Grade Cricket in Adelaide 2011/12

2012-01-15T00:11:28Z

As there is some interest I thought I'd start a new topic.

To complete the Round 2 game (started last Saturday), Port ended up on 9/220. Sturt finished on 2/272. So a win for Sturt in a game reduced to 80 overs a side (becuase of the early rain last weekend).

In the West End One Day Cup on Sunday;

Sturt 9/345 (50 overs) def Port Adelaide 9/218 (50 overs)

Beer c Moffat b Thomson 5 (batted at 4)

So after telling Will last weekend that not many sides are scoring more than 300 in an innings these days, his side gets mullered for 345 in a one dayer. I bet Matthew Weeks (his skipper) is hoping he gets back to bowling fitness soon.

Tour Match: Pakistan Cricket Board XI v England XI

2012-01-14T15:11:50Z

Tour Match: Pakistan Cricket Board XI v England XI
Wednesday, 11 January 2012 at Dubai, Day 1 of 3
BBC.......In Play
Pakistan Cricket Board XI won the toss and decided to field
England XI 1st Innings
187 for 5 (57.0 overs)

England XI 1st Innings
Runs Balls 4s 6s
Strauss c Sarfraz Ahmed b Talha 3 22 0 0
Cook not out 93 176 7 0
Trott lbw b Talha 0 3 0 0
Pietersen b Yasir Shah 38 75 5 0
Bell lbw b Yasir Shah 0 2 0 0
Morgan c Hasan b Yasir Shah 11 31 1 0
Prior not out 30 38 5 0
Extras 5nb 1w 6lb 12
Total for 5 187 (57.0 ovs)

Umpires: Ahsan Raza, Shozab Raza
Pakistan Cricket Board XI: Jamshed, Afaq Raheem, Sohail, Mohammad Ayub, Fawad, Salahuddin, Sarfraz Ahmed (C/W), Hasan, Mohammad Khalil, Talha, Yasir Shah
England XI: Strauss (C), Cook, Trott, Pietersen, Bell, Morgan, Prior (W), Swann, Panesar, Onions, Tremlett

.........interesting game for Sussex followers as Monty is playing in this one

Australia v India

2012-01-13T21:59:12Z

Shane Watson is expected to replace Phil Hughes but what about Ed Cowan for Usman Khawaja?

http://live.cricketworld.com/live-scorecard/11081

Sussex v Jamaica 12th Jan @ 8pm

2012-01-13T16:34:09Z

Our second match from Antigua of our T20 campaign.......

It's the same start time of 8pm UK time with live commentary available once again via the internet connection below.

Live Internet Commentary

The game is not being covered live on ESPN TV, but a recording of the game will be shown on the channel Friday at 3pm.

After the success of the first game my non expert view would suggest that we will go in with an unchanged side.
I have no concerns about our bowling attack but realise that we are likely to need two batsman to get into the forties each match if we want to win it.

I have a good feeling about this tournament which seems to be a win/win opportunity. If the costs are being helped by sponsorship and the fringe players are all involved it gives the club an improved view of it's strengths and weaknesses.
It also sends out a strong message to non-Sussex players about our development programme and the opportunities provided by a very successful county.
A tour to the Caribbean which is followed in March by a pre-season training camp in Dubai with matches against Durham once again.

Sussex v Netherlands - 10 Jan @ 8pm

2012-01-13T09:27:02Z

Live internet commentary

I thought it's worth starting a new thread for each match so we can keep the discussions relevant to each game.
The link above allows us to listen to the live commentary and for any one lucky enough to have access to ESPN they will be able to watch a recording of the Netherlands game tomorrow (Weds) at 2-15pm.

Cricinfo scorecard

Netherlands squad
W Barresi, PW Borren*, Mudassar Bukhari, AF Buurman†, TN de Grooth, TGJ Gruijters, TJ Heggelman, MAA Jamil, AN Kervezee, SJ Myburgh, PM Seelaar, MR Swart, ES Szwarczynski, T van der Gugten
Sussex squad
WA Adkin, JE Anyon, WAT Beer, BC Brown†, JS Gatting, NA Gondal, AJ Hodd, A Khan, CJ Liddle, MW Machan, CD Nash, KO Wernars, MH Yardy*

My own thoughts are that the team selection will depend on who are the best bowlers to select for the conditions.
The opening games played last night in Antigua saw Windward Islands (129/4) beat Trinidad & Tobago (118/9)
And Guyana (139/5) beat Leeward Islands (134 all out) with just 4 balls remaining.

With the opening two games both being low scoring affairs I would expect our bowlers to include: Yardy, Beer, Nash, Liddle, Arif and possibly Wernars.
Therefore with my expert lack of knowledge I'd imagine that the two players to miss out will come from Adkin, Anyon and Amjad Khan.

I know that AEWParsons is heading out to Antigua tomorrow (Weds) so hopefully he'll be able to provide us with a bit more insight from our second game onwards.