Squad announced for first-class opener against Cardiff MCCU

A twelve-man squad has been named for Sussex’s first-class opener against Cardiff MCCU starting at The 1st Central County Ground on Sunday.

Apart from Jofra Archer who is playing for Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League, head coach Jason Gillespie has had the whole squad to pick from.

Danny Briggs is rested, but otherwise Gillespie has said the team selected for the three-day game will be fairly similar to that picked for Sussex’s first Specsavers County Championship fixture against Leicestershire next Friday.

Chris Jordan is available for the start of the first-class season for the first time since 2014.

Sussex’s preparations for the season have gone to plan so far. After four one-day wins on tour in Cape Town, the team had the better of their two day matches against first division sides Hampshire and Kent earlier this week.

Four Sussex batsmen scored half-centuries in those red-ball warm-ups, while Harry Finch and Luke Wright made centuries. The county’s bowlers have taken 31 mainly top-order wickets in 171.5 overs.

Squad

Ben Brown*+

Michael Burgess

Harry Finch

Tom Haines

Chris Jordan

Ollie Robinson

Abi Sakande

Phil Salt

Stiaan van Zyl

Luke Wells

David Wiese

Luke Wright

Opposition

The students of South Wales suffered the eighth heaviest first-class defeat in terms of runs in their opening county fixture, a 568-run defeat at the hand of Somerset.

Former England Under-19 left-arm spinner, Prem Sisodiya took five wickets across Somerset’s two innings. Daniel Douthwaite’s 42 in Cardiff MCCU’s first innings was the side’s highest individual score in the match.

Match Details

Play gets underway at 11am and gates open at 9.30am on all three days of the match. Entry is free.

A live stream of the match – as well as scorecard, statistics and text commentary via the @SussexCCC twitter account - will be available on the Sussex Cricket Match Centre. Access to the stream for this match will be free of charge. Please note there will be no commentary.

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