Where Cricket Meets...Tickets selling fast

Tickets still available for a special evening with two legends of the game

Tickets for a special afternoon of anecdotes, stories and laughs with Michael Vaughan and Phil Tufnell at the Sussex Cricket Foundation's flagship fundraiser, 'Where Cricket Meets...' are selling FAST!

The fundraiser, taking place on Thursday 28th March 2024, helps to raise crucial funds for the Sussex Cricket Foundation and helps to provide significant funds to help the Foundation to continue to grow the game across Sussex.

Make sure you grab your tickets while you can and secure a night at the DoubleTree by Hilton Brighton Metropole with two legends of the English game. 

Speaking on the event, Michael Vaughan said: “I’m really excited to be supporting the Sussex Cricket Foundation with their fundraising, helping to support all the amazing work they carry out across the county, to increase participation and continue to make the game accessible to all.  

“I look forward to meeting everyone and having a fantastic afternoon in Sussex!” 

Ticket information

Tables of ten are priced at £1,000 or individual tickets can be purchased at £125pp, with all funds going directly to the Sussex Cricket Foundation. 

Tickets to the event include:

• Entry to the venue from midday until 5pm
• A welcome drink on arrival
• Three-course lunch
• Opportunity to take part in silent auction, live auction and a game of heads & tails
• Access to a private bar

If you’d like to book a table, please click here. 

To read about the important work the Foundation carries out in the county, look over their latest Impact Report 

With 'Where Cricket Meets...Michael Vaughan and Phil Tufnell' edging ever closer, Will Kirkup takes a look back at some of the career highlights of our two star guests. 

“Tufnell is going to be bought on to bowl from the Paddington End…"

“Ohhhhh and he’s gone! What a magnificent catch by Gooch!” Tony Greig on commentary, England 2-0 down in an Ashes series, the start of a Phil Tufnell five wicket hall at the Sydney Cricket Ground. 

A gem of a YouTube video transports one back to January 1991, with Tuffers skipping into the popping crease, sending one down towards David Boon in a perfect area, for him to tickle through to Graham Gooch, via a deflection off England keeper Jack Russell.

Boon, moustache twitching, perfects the art of trudging off wonderfully. Genuine fume. Kettle boiled. Steam leaves ears. Beautiful. He’d already made 97 in the first innings anyway.

In case you’re at all bothered, England went on to draw that test. Then lost the series 3-0. 

But the highly amusing plight of England playing test cricket in the 1990s was perhaps summed up by their happy go lucky off-spinner Phil Tufnell, now a national treasure.

It’s maybe forgotten that Tufnell was a magician when he got to work. He took 121 test wickets at 38 over a 11 year long career, and his performance against New Zealand in 1992 prove his credentials. In the third test he had figures of 11 for 147 and took the final wicket when New Zealand captain Martin Crowe holed out to Derek Pringle at mid-off. The ball truly was on his string that day.

Now he’s known for I’m a Celebrity, A Question of Sport and Strictly, as well as a provider of pure commentary gold on Test Match Special.

If you fancy meeting the great man, he will be joining Michael Vaughan at the Sussex Cricket Foundation annual fundraiser at the DoubleTree by Hilton.

Vaughan, another legend, was up there with some of the great England test captains. With the bat, class exuded. Just clinical of the back foot and through the covers. 

The hipsters amongst who will point out that the pinnacle of Vaughan’s batting grace came in 2002, before he became captain. That summer, he piled on a glittering 197 against India at Trent Bridge (his career top score) before racking up 195 at the Oval two tests later.

When England toured Australia that winter, he continued this habit of hefty centuries, making 177, 145 and 183 in the second, fourth, and fifth test respectively. 

He ended the series as top run scorer, with 633, and as the ICC number one batter in the world. However, you would be frankly deranged to suggest that his finest moment wasn’t his England captaincy during the 2005 Ashes series.

Any excuse to write about it, but a section on Vaughan would be bereft without one. Highlights included the greatest time bowling spell of all time on day one at Lords, as Glenn McGrath removed off-stumps with terrifying ease, that Kevin Pietersen performance at the Oval and of course Vaughan’s gem of an innings at Old Trafford. 166 beautifully forged runs.

We all know what happened, so I’ll resist dwelling on ‘the greatest series’ for too long.

Now Vaughan is a consistent voice on Test Match Special and across the BBC’s cricket coverage and the Sussex Foundation gives you the chance to hear from him.