'El Capitan' guest of honour for Sunday's 'El Clasicoast' - final tickets remain

After Friday night’s no result against Kent Spitfires at Canterbury, Sussex Sharks return home to take on Hampshire in the Vitality Blast at The 1st Central County Ground on Sunday afternoon.

The Sharks go into the match against the bottom side in fourth place in the south group with seven points and a game in hand over the three sides ahead of them. Jason Gillespie has named an unchanged 14-man squad for the fixture.

There will be a very special guest at this year’s ‘El Clasicoast’, with Brighton & Hove Albion FC skipper Bruno in attendance at the toin coss.

A limited number of tickets remain available for the match. Full details are available below.

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

7. Tymal Mills

9. Delray Rawlins

25. Ollie Robinson

28. Phil Salt

96. David Wiese 

Opposition

Hampshire have endured a tough start to this year’s Vitality Blast, winning just one of their six matches so far. That 21-run victory at home to Middlesex and a tie against Essex at Chelmsford have left the two-time winners at the bottom of the south group with three points.

New Zealand all-rounder, Colin Munro is the team’s leading run scorer so far in this year’s tournament with 200 runs from his six innings. Left-arm seamer, Chris Wood is the leading wicket taker with seven scalps from six matches.

Sussex and Hampshire have already met in this year’s tournament, with the Sharks recording an emphatic eight-wicket victory at The Ageas Bowl earlier this month.

Match & Ticket Details

Sussex Sharks v Hampshire in the Vitality Blast at The 1st Central County Ground gets underway at 2.30pm.

A limited number of tickets will be available to buy on the gates, which open at 1pm. Supporters can save £5 on gate prices by purchasing tickets online. These will be onsale via our Print@Home facility up until gates opening on the day of the match.

A full Match Day Guide is available to download below.

Match Coverage

Can’t make it to this match? You can follow all the action via the Match Day Centre on the Sussex Cricket website. This includes a live stream with commentary from BBC Sussex, a live scorecard, live statistics and text commentary from the @SussexCCC twitter account.