Sussex travel to Durham for final Championship fixture before Finals Day

The action continues to come thick and fast for Sussex as they head to Durham for their next match in the Specsavers County Championship which gets underway on Monday (10.30am).

Ben Brown’s men go into the match full of confidence after another comprehensive home win against Leicestershire earlier this week.

That victory was their fifth in six games and leaves Sussex in third position in division two, five points behind second-placed Kent and twelve points behind leaders Warwickshire.

Ollie Robinson’s career-best match figures of 10 for 67 took him to 56 Championship wickets for the season, making him the leading English wicket-taker in either division.

There was a fifty in each innings for Chris Jordan, who is on course to play his 100th first-class match against Durham. The all-rounder needs just two wickets to reach 300 in first-class cricket.

Thirteen runs will take Jofra Archer to 1,000 first-class runs, 55 will take David Wiese to 5,000 and 95 will take Phil Salt to 1,000.

Head coach, Jason Gillespie has made two changes to the squad that was announced ahead of the win over Leicestershire with Michael Burgess and Abi Sakande replacing Will Beer and Luke Wright.

Sussex Squad

26. Ben Brown (capt. & wk)

22. Jofra Archer

21. Danny Briggs

5. Michael Burgess

6. Harry Finch

20. Tom Haines

8. Chris Jordan

9. Delray Rawlins

25. Ollie Robinson

11. Abi Sakande

28. Phil Salt

31. Luke Wells

96. David Wiese

Opposition

Durham sit in eighth position in the table on 102 points having won three, lost five and drawn 3 of their eleven matches.

Graham Clark is their leading run-scorer with 430 runs at an average of 23.88, followed closely by Cameron Steel with 404 runs at 25.25.

Veteran seamers Chris Rushworth has been the north-east county’s leading wicket taker with 43 at an average of 21.69.

Match Details & Coverage

All four days of the match at Emirates Riverside are scheduled to start at 10.30 am.

You can follow Sussex’s progress on our Match Day Centre, which features a link to live ball-by-ball commentary from BBC Sussex, a live scorecard, live statistics and text commentary and in-play clips from the @SussexCCC twitter feed.