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Vote for Your Sparking Moments of the Year

5 Sep 2025

Vote for Your Sparking Moments of the Year

Now is your chance to vote for your Sussex Sparkling Moments of the Year for both the Men's and Women's teams in 2025. We've got three to pick from for both teams.

Cast your mind back to these six moments from the season and decide which of those stood out to you and had the biggest impact on the team's performance that game.

Men's Sparkling Moment Nominees

Sean Hunt Hits the Winning Runs vs Lancashire - Metro Bank One Day Cup

After tearing through the Somerset batting order during the first home County Championship game of the season, Sean Hunt would suffer a freak shoulder injury that meant he had to sit on the sidelines for three months, but when he returned, he did it in style.

His return to the side came in Metro Bank One Day Cup action against Lancashire in what was the first day-night fixture at Hove for a number of years, and Hunt did not disappoint, but it wasn't his exploits with the ball for which he is nominated.

A nail-biting chase under the lights came to a tense crescendo, with the Sharks requiring just one run to win, with three balls and one wicket remaining. Enter Sean Hunt, taking a giant stride down the pitch and smashing a four back over the head of the Lancs bowler to give Sussex a memorable victory in spectacular fashion.

Danny Lamb Guides the Sharks Home vs Gloucestershire - T20 Vitality Blast

Chasing a victory target of 186, Sharks required 15 runs off the final over, bowled by David Payne. Lamb clubbed three boundaries, including one off the final ball, to stun a large Festival audience into silence and end Gloucestershire's defence of the title they lifted last year.

Danny Lamb held his nerve to hit 16 runs off five balls and carry Sussex Sharks to a dramatic last-ball four-wicket win over Gloucestershire in a thrilling Vitality Blast encounter on the opening day of the Towergate Cheltenham Festival.

Nathan McAndrew Rips Through Glamorgan -T20 Vitality Blast

Nathan McAndrew loves to bowl against Glamorgan. The Australian overseas seam bowler helped the Sussex Sharks complete two wins over Glamorgan within the space of just six days, taking 11 wickets along the way.

It was the second of those two outstanding performances with the ball for which he is nominated.

Nathan McAndrew backed up Sussex’s first innings for an all-round winning display returning 6 for 21 despite Dan Douthwaite’s quickfire 40 from three wickets inside six balls and Colin Ingram’s 21-ball 37 kept Glamorgan in the chase before they fell to 172 all out.

Three of those wickets came in the penultimate over to give Nathan career-best T20 bowling figures for a man that continues to make an impact on this Sussex side, year after year.

Women's Sparkling Moment Nominees

Rachel King Half Century vs Kent Spitfire - T20 Vitality Blast

A batter with pedigree and the ability to take her game to the top of her profession, and also the personality and mentality to match her talents.

Rachel King's 50 from just 28 balls included 9 fours and 1 six, the perfect platform built for a memorable maiden win in the competition for the Sussex Sharks Women.

Mollie Adams Makes a Sensational Century vs Worcestershire Rapids - Metro Bank One Day Cup

Mollie Adams certainly comes from fine cricketing stock and the surname is one which carries weight around this County, but Mollie has shown she is up for the challenge.

Opening the batting and keeping is no mean feat for any cricketer at any level but Mollie Adams has taken it in her stride in 2025.

She made 104 runs from just 146 balls, including 14 fours to give the Sharks Women their first win of the season.

Anna Buckle 5fer vs Worcestershire Rapids - Metro Bank One Day Cup

A mainstay in the Sussex Sharks team all season, all of Anna Buckle's bowling skills were on display in the same match that saw Adams make 104 from 146.

The perfect display of swing bowling led to Buckle tearing through a Worcestershire Rapids side who may have fancied their chances against a Sussex side looking for their first win of the season.

She returned figures of 5-27 from just 6.4 overs, including the match-sealing final wicket, clean bowling Jess Beach to secure a 29-run victory at New Road.