[Cricket] Sussex CCC - 2025 Division One Edition

[Eeyore]

I remember the old Sunday league. Crowds were always pretty good too. I used to love the Horsham match, complete with customary streaker.

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

Are the smaller attendances partly due to T20 now being played earlier in the year to accommodate the Hundred?

Not really warm enough yet for evening cricket.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I was glad I took a coat.

I should have taken mine, I thought wearing jeans a long sleeved shirt and a light jacket would be enough, I took a fleece with me thinking i would put it on later into the match, soon went on though.
I was warmer at the last few matches at the Amex

 

[ManOfSussex]

I should have taken mine, I thought wearing jeans a long sleeved shirt and a light jacket would be enough, I took a fleece with me thinking i would put it on later into the match, soon went on though.
I was warmer at the last few matches at the Amex

I did notice a handful of people who were underdressed in the bar in the Sharks stand at the start of the Glamorgan innings more interested in hanging around there to watch the England game on Sky with their drinks than go back up to watch the game.

 

[Albion Robster]

Agreed the prices for T20 games at the County Ground are outrageous.
The price adult tickets at £35 and under 14’s at £13 is just criminal. 2 adults and 2 children for 3hrs of live sport, you’re looking at just short of £100!! The pricing structure for weekend games is totally wrong. The last two Sunday games have been half empty. Surely the club should be looking at family group tickets for these double-header games? Get the families in for discounted tickets (say, £60), give them a whole afternoon at the Cricket. Dads will buy beers and the kids will buy ice creams - more £££ for Sussex with bums on seats in the ground.

 

[timbha]

So what advertising have Sussex done for these games? I haven’t been into
Brighton for a while, are there posters advertising the games around? Are they on bus stops / train stations? Or do we just expect people to know there’s a game on by osmosis?

Surrey and Middlesex plaster local stations on the tube and NR with adverts for their Blast games.

Good point. Think they rely on cheap social media advertising but as we know most people see these as an irritation and click through as quickly as possible.

The club has announced numerous “ground improvements” that appear to be like the emperor’s new clothes. Anyone notice if the Sixes net was being used?

 

[ManOfSussex]

Anyone notice if the Sixes net was being used?

Yes it was. There were kids playing in there both times I went to get a pint.

 

[Luke93]

Agree. He did pretty well in t20 last season iirc, and was seen as a key player by Farbs.

In other news….great win today. Looking good.

He wasn’t good in T20’s last year. Only took 2 wickets, was expensive with the ball and his batting was striking @113. Was struggling to break into the 15 player squad here, let alone starting XI.

But he’s very important for the proper format. I’m pleased he’s keeping warm at his previous county. Only a T20 loan, so I imagine he’ll be back for the summer round of county championship games this month.

 

[Don Tmatter]

Cheaper under Rob Andrew, careful what you wish for

 

[Eeyore]

He wasn’t good in T20’s last year. Only took 2 wickets, was expensive with the ball and his batting was striking @113. Was struggling to break into the 15 player squad here, let alone starting XI.

But he’s very important for the proper format. I’m pleased he’s keeping warm at his previous county. Only a T20 loan, so I imagine he’ll be back for the summer round of county championship games this month.

County Championship in the summer ? My word.

They'll be meaningful matches in August next*

*EDIT No there won't

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

I remember the old Sunday league. Crowds were always pretty good too. I used to love the Horsham match, complete with customary streaker.

Yes - the old John Player - BBC2 2.00 onwards I think

 

[Man of Harveys]

The randomness of the schedule puts people off. The old Sunday league was perfect for the T20 format: you didn’t have to go digging around online for ages to know there’d be a game on somewhere, often at nice grounds like Guildford or Arundel etc. Great stuff.

But then cricket is a stupendously brilliant sport, generally administered by jibbering incompetent idiots. As the existence of the Hundred proves.

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

I remember the old Sunday league. Crowds were always pretty good too. I used to love the Horsham match, complete with customary streaker.

With the old Sunday licencing laws, those matches were great if you fancied a decent drinking session . Pub until just before 2, mooch along to the County Ground for a few pints , cricket finishing around 7, back to the pub.
Don't think I've got the stamina for that sort of caper now!

 

[ROSM]

With the old Sunday licencing laws, those matches were great if you fancied a decent drinking session . Pub until just before 2, mooch along to the County Ground for a few pints , cricket finishing around 7, back to the pub.
Don't think I've got the stamina for that sort of caper now!

That was my mid teens in a nutshell

 

[Sussexscots]

With the old Sunday licencing laws, those matches were great if you fancied a decent drinking session . Pub until just before 2, mooch along to the County Ground for a few pints , cricket finishing around 7, back to the pub.
Don't think I've got the stamina for that sort of caper now!

That was my Summer Sunday for many years.

Happy days, sorely missed.

 

[albionalex]

Re: lack of crowd, I think the prices are a bit high. I know they try and push people to get the 'Blast Pass' so maybe they price the individual tickets to incentive the pass.

Maybe they could offer some sort of incentive for Albion season ticket holders.

It probably doesn't help that the games are on You Tube for free either.

 

[albionalex]

Anyone know the reasoning behind Hudson-Prentice being loaned to Derbyshire when it would have made more sense to send Danny Lamb up there to get some match practice?
F H-P was in decent nick with bat & ball

FHP played for Derbyshire before, so a bit of connection.

Presumably Lamb is ahead of FHP in the T20 pecking order for us too.

 

[Don Tmatter]

Lamb is yet to start in a T20 so far in the campaign and I’d have had H-P ahead of him as in a good run of form and fully match fit whereas Lamb is not long back from injury needing match fitness but I’m sure they know what they’re doing.

 

[Eeyore]

Reading this absorbing book by Mike Brearley again after 43 years. Makes me wistful for the old days of county cricket. I recognize all the names and even found myself pondering on the intricacies of their batting techniques and bowling actions.

I still love the game, but back then it was an obsession. I felt it again fleetingly as I turned the pages.