Sussex vs Worcestershire: County Championship Match preview

Sussex return to County Championship action tomorrow at The 1st Central County Ground against Worcestershire and Paul Farbrace has named his squad.

Squad

Alsop (c), Carson, Carter (wk), Clark, Coles, Crocombe, Haines, Hudson-Prentice, Ibrahim, Karvelas, McAndrew, Shipley

Team news

Cheteshwar Pujara is currently unavailable as he is playing in the World Test Championship Final against Australia.

Ali Orr awaits the results of a scan on his knee following an injury at the Kia Oval.

Steven Finn is working towards a return following a lengthy knee injury.

Ollie Robinson is away with England preparing for the Ashes.

Henry Shipley comes in as an overseas signing for the next four County Championship games.

Farbrace's thoughts

"I'm really looking forward to being at Hove for this championship game. We played some very good cricket in the first six games and we've taken a lot of confidence as a team. 

"We have replaced Cheteshwar with Henry Shipley, and that’s based purely on trying to take 20 wickets. We did very well in the first innings of all of the games, but ran out of steam, we are looking for Henry’s quality to help with this. 

"Tom Alsop takes over as captain and is looking forward to the role and helping the team to keep learning and improving as a team, whilst maintaining our goal in aiming to be promoted to division one."

Free entry on day 1

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