The 1st Central County Ground ready for tonight's sell-out: full details of the match against Surrey

Sussex Sharks will select from the same 13-man squad that travelled to Hampshire yesterday for tonight's Vitality Blast match against Surrey at The 1st Central County Ground.

The fixture is Sussex's first home game in the tournament after three comprehensive victories on the road. The side will take to the field in front of a capacity crowd, with all 6,200 seats sold out a week ago.

After ultimately comfortable wins against Essex and Glamorgan, the Sharks recorded an eight-wicket victory at The Ageas Bowl last night to extend their early lead at the top of the South Group.

Skipper, Luke Wright scored his second consecutive half-century as Sussex chased down their target of 158 with 10 balls to spare and eight wickets in hand.

Laurie Evans made it three fifties in as many innings to make him the second highest run scorer in the competition, with 181 runs.

Earlier in the evening, the Sharks pegged Hampshire back after they had made a strong start in the powerplay. Danny Briggs and Jofra Archer picked up three wickets each as the home side scored 58 runs from their last eight overs.

Looking ahead to tonight's match, head coach Jason Gillespie said: “It’s always a good battle against the South Londoners and they’ll be bringing a couple of big players along.

“The game will be an exciting challenge for us and the players are looking forward to their first appearance at home in this year’s tournament.

“It’s great news that the ground is sold out and the players will be doing their best to entertain our supporters.”

Sussex Sharks squad

10. Luke Wright (c)

22. Jofra Archer 

18. Will Beer

21. Danny Briggs

42. Tom Bruce 

5. Michael Burgess (wk)

32. Laurie Evans

8. Chris Jordan

1. Rashid Khan

9. Delray Rawlins

25. Ollie Robinson

28. Phil Salt

96. David Wiese 

Opposition

Surrey bounced back from defeats in their opening two matches against Middlesex and Kent with a resounding win against Essex Eagles at The Kia Oval last night.

Ben Foakes and Australian overseas player Aaron Finch both hit rapid fifties during Surrey's enormous total of 222-4, before Matt Pillans and Gareth Batty took three wickets each as Essex fell 40 runs short of victory.

Match details

Sussex Sharks v Surrey in the Vitality Blast takes place at The 1st Central County Ground, Hove on Friday 13th July.

Play is scheduled to begin at 7pm, with gates opening at 5.30pm. Tickets for this fixture are SOLD OUT and none will be available for purchase on the gates

Supporters with tickets are requested to arrive in plenty of time to pass though security checks and locate their seat.

Those with ‘general admission’ tickets will be able to select a seat in either of the temporary stands in the north east corner of the ground on a first come, first served basis.

Sussex Cricket would like to express its gratitude to match sponsors, LanGuard Alarms, Vitality Blast shirt sponsors, Boundless and ground sponsors, 1st Central.

Match coverage

The match will be streamed live with commentary from BBC Sussex on the Sussex Cricket Match Centre, which also includes a live scorecard, live statistics and live text commentary from the @SussexCCC twitter feed.

For the best photos and videos from the night, follow us on our @SussexCCC Instagram and Snapchat channels.

As well as accompanying the live stream, ball-by-ball commentary will also be available from BBC Sussex, both online, on DAB and on 104.5 FM in East Sussex, 95.3 FM in Mid Sussex and 104.8 FM in West Sussex.