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You're thinking about '84 when Martin Crowe battered us around the park. Mendis and Parker gave us hope but it was downhill after that. I bunked off school for that one. '83 was worse. They bowled Sussex out for 65.

A few chants of 'Seagulls' in the crowd there.

The famous number 117. Cowfold Seagull would approve.

How bad is that ? I never knew Roger Knight had played for Sussex. How embarrassed am I. I remember him being spoken of as a replacement for Botham in 1981. Did you go to the final in 1978 ?

That's regrettably before my cricket time.

1983 Nat West Quarter Final. I say he learnt at the match, it was either at the match or close to it. I was upset that he didn't seem to want to talk to me and then I later found out that he wasn't in a good place. Inevitably one of the tabloids wasn't so considerate when they found out about...

In fairness to him, that may have been the match at which he had just learned about a very distressing family situation which I won't go into here. Whenever Somerset came to Hove I always got complimentary tickets from him because one of his best friends was a school teacher of mine. I would...