Sussex vs Leicestershire

Sussex look for a response following their first defeat of the campaign at Surrey as they welcome Leicestershire to Hove in the Rothesay County Championship.

Despite a gargantuan effort from the tail in the opening innings at Kia Oval - with Jack Carson and Ollie Robinson both recording centuries - Sussex suffered their first loss of the season by an eight wicket margin.

There were positives, particularly with the bat in the latter stages of both innings, but it was a task that was always growing harder after Sussex found themselves 92-7 on the opening day. Had it not been for some quite brilliant batting from the lower order it may have been over a fair bit before just after Tea on the final day, as Surrey then piled on the runs to gain a healthy advantage before bowling Sussex out again requiring just 14 runs for the win.

But swiftly a chance to right the wrongs arrives just a few days' later against a side they have already had success against this season, with opponents from the opening match of the campaign in Leicestershire journeying down for the penultimate County Championship fixture of this opening block.

Team News

Tom Price was absent from the defeat in London after going down with an ankle injury on day three against Yorkshire the week prior, despite being in the squad. He is once again in the squad for the visit of Leicestershire as he pushes for a place in the XI. Oli Carter is included in this latest squad in the only change from the side that travelled to Surrey.

Squad: Carson, Carter, Clark, Coles, Crocombe, Haines, Hudson-Prentice, Hughes, Ibrahim, Lamb, Leaning, Price, Robinson (c), Simpson, Tear

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The Opposition

It's been little over a month since the last encounter between the sides as Sussex romped to a convincing 222-run victory over Leicestershire at Grace Road to wipe out the points deficit and hand Ollie Robinson a first win as County Championship captain.

Since then, Alfonso Thomas' side are still in search of a first Division One victory having been crowned champions of the second division last season. Following that defeat to Sussex, they followed it up with back-to-back draws against Surrey and Glamorgan - scoring 1,277 runs across those matches in just two innings - before last week coming unstuck against Nottinghamshire.

A decent response, then, for the side whose fairly apparent failings thus far lie within their bowling attack. Allrounder Ben Green has, however, taken an impressive 17 wickets already - the joint leading wicket-taker in the division alongside Henry Crocombe and Mason Crane.

Jake Weatherald, Rishi Patel and Ben Cox have made particularly positive starts with the bat, recording 366, 346 and 334 runs respectively as they head to Hove in search of that elusive first victory of the campaign.

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