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On 17 June 1836, the Sussex Cricket Fund was set up to support county matches, after a meeting in Brighton. This led directly to the formation of Sussex County Cricket Club on 1 March 1839, England's oldest county club. The side played its initial first-class match against MCC at Lord's in June 1839. [11]
This is a list in alphabetical order of cricketers who have played for Sussex County Cricket Club in top-class matches since it was founded in 1839. Like the Sussex county teams formed by earlier organisations, including the old Brighton Cricket Club, the county club has always been classified as a top-class side. [1]
Cricket in Sussex refers to the sport of cricket in relation to its participation and history within Sussex, England. One of the most popular sports in Sussex , it is commonly believed that cricket was developed in Sussex and the neighbouring counties of Kent and Surrey.
John Andrew Simpson (born 13 July 1988) is an English cricketer who plays for, and captains, Sussex County Cricket Club. Simpson is a wicket-keeper and left-handed batsman who won the Denis Compton Award in 2004 at Lancashire, and 2011 at Middlesex. He made his international debut for the England cricket team in July 2021.
Cricket portal; The players listed in this category have represented Sussex County Cricket Club or a team seen as representative of the county of Sussex, such as the pre-county club Sussex county cricket teams in first-class, List A or Twenty20 cricket
Sussex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 member clubs of the English County Championship, representing the historic county of Sussex. Although Sussex representative sides had been playing cricket since the mid-eighteenth century and had also played first-class cricket matches since 1815, the County Cricket Club was established on 1 March ...
A number of such cases were heard in Sussex during the 17th century and there were two instances of players dying, both in Sussex, after being struck on the head during a match. [3] Despite these problems, cricket became established in Sussex during the 17th century and the earliest village matches took place before the English Civil War.
The Sussex Cricket Board was the former governing body for all recreational cricket in the historic county of Sussex. On 1 November 2015, the Sussex Cricket Board (SCB) merged with Sussex County Cricket Club (SCCC) to form a single governing body for cricket in Sussex, called Sussex Cricket Limited (SCL).