Sussex offspinning allrounder Bertie Foreman has been awarded the prestigious O'Reilly Medal, the award for the player of the season in the New South Wales Premier League for the 2023/24 season. 

Bertie has been playing his winter cricket in Australia for Manly Warringah, where his efforts have helped the team secure back-to-back Men's Club Championships.

The award itself is voted for by the umpires of each respective fixture throughout the season. 

Bertie joins a distinguished list of cricketers that have won the award, including: Mason Crane, Ian Salisbury, Sir Geoffrey Boycott, Mike Gatting and Tony Greig. 

Foreman finished as leading wicket-taker in the competition, taking 50 wickets in 15 appearances at an average of 17.16. 

Manly Warringah claimed their 10th Club Championship, finishing over 200 points ahead of second-placed Northern District. 

Speaking on his campaign in Australia, Bertie said: “I’m very honoured to have received this award. 

"I want to thank everyone at Manly for their support this season, they are an amazing Club run by better people and hopefully we can go onto to win the competition this year! 

"Hopefully I can bring this form with me back into the county season and get cracking on what is shaping up to be a very exiting year for all the boys down at Hove."

Congratulations, Bertie! #GOSBTS 

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Carson Smashes Six off Penultimate Ball for Victory

Sussex concluded their pre-season tour of India with a nail-biting one-wicket victory over hosts, Karnataka State Cricket Association XI, thanks for some final-over heroics from Jack Carson.  

KSCA won the toss and elected to bat, a decision that looked to have certainly paid off by the time they completed their innings.

The home side posted 215, having only lost one wicket, setting the Sharks what looked like an incredibly difficult target to chase. 

However, after a slow start to the innings, James Coles and Danny Lamb both scored half-centuries to bring the Sharks to within touching distance of a huge chase. 

With 26 needed from the final over, the task looked even more less-plausible, however Jack Carson hit a huge maximum from the penultimate ball to give the Sharks the narrow victory.

To see highlights from the chase, head over to the Sussex 'X' page for some big hitting from the Sharks batters.

Book your seats to see the Sharks this summer 

The Blast is coming back to The 1st Central County Ground. Tickets are on sale now, so make sure you secure yours and get your seats booked for the summer.

Now is the perfect time to secure yours at an early bird price! Early bird prices end on May 1st 2024. 

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Free Entry to Day One of 

Sussex vs Northamptonshire

Sussex Cricket is delighted to announce that entry to day one of Sussex vs Northamptonshire on Friday 5th April is completely free of charge!

Sussex Head Coach Paul Farbrace has set his sights on promotion to division one of the County Championship, after narrowly missing out in 2023. 

To kick the season off, Sussex is opening the doors of The 1st Central County Ground to anyone who would like to come down and support the team. All you have to do is claim your free ticket, in advance. 

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Jaydev Unadkat returns for the 

County Championship run-in

Sussex Cricket is delighted to announce that India Test bowler Jaydev Unadkat will return to the Club in 2024 for the final five games of the County Championship campaign.

Unadkat joined up with Sussex for three of the final four County Championship games last season, having an immediate impact by taking 11 wickets at 24.18, helping Sussex to a third-place finish in Division 2. 

His best performance came against Leicestershire on his home debut at The 1st Central County Ground, when he took 6 second-innings wickets whilst nursing an ankle injury to give Sussex a third win of the County Championship campaign. 

The left-armer tore through the Leicestershire batting line up in the final session of the final day as Sussex won by just 15 runs. 

Speaking on bringing Unadkat back for the end of the 2024 campaign, Sussex Head Coach, Paul Farbrace said: “We are all delighted that Jaydev is returning to The 1st Central County Ground for the final five championship matches of the coming season. 

“Jaydev lived up to the expectation that not only would he show his class on the field, but he would also be a fantastic person and be part of what we are all trying to achieve. 

“Jaydev is a lovely guy who did everything he could to help our players and share his fantastic knowledge."

And Jaydev Unadkat himself cannot wait to get back to Hove: “It was at Hove last season when we won a last-day thriller against Leicestershire, that gave me a sense of belongingness to county cricket, and to Sussex as my home. 

“When Farby offered me a contract this season for the last leg of the championship, I was sure I wanted to come back and hopefully win games with the guys.

“While my first county season was good, I can’t wait to be back and push for that promotion this summer which everyone at Hove is rooting for!”

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Sussex Men's Team Arrive in India for Pre-Season Tour

The Sussex Men's First Team have arrived in Bangalore for a pre-season tour ahead of the County Championship which gets underway on Friday 5th April and we've assembled a gallery of the players in action from their first day of training. 

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Winterwatch: McAndrew on fire! 

This week we have an action packed Winter Watch with many Sussex players starring all over the world and impressing with bat, ball and gloves. McAndrew was the pick of the bunch down in Australia!

Nathan McAndrew 

Sussex returning overseas Nathan McAndrew was on fire for South Australia as he dismantled Tasmania in the Sheffield Shield by taking 6/44 off just 15.2 overs. Nathan's side, South Australia finished their 1st innings on 271 before Tasmania were bowled out for 144. SA were then bowled all out for 175 setting Tasmania 324 to win. Nathan grabbed another 2 wickets as Tasmania were all out for 198, McAndrew finishing his 2nd innings with figures of 2/42 from 17 overs. 

Sussex Squad

A pre-season tour to India for the remaining squad members who have not chosen to play abroad this year have travelled to Bangalore for a warm weather training camp and practice matches.

They faced a Karnataka State Cricket XI in a two day friendly match. An unknown bowler going by the name of "Jofra Archer" also featured for the opposition and took a couple of wickets, one breaking the stump as he dismissed Oli Carter, Archer also took the wicket of Alsop.

Day One - Sussex bowled KCSA all out for 201. Lamb the pick of the bowlers with figures of 4/25 from 6.1 overs. Sussex closed the first day's play on 185-2 with Coles on 66* and Alsop 51*

Day Two - Sussex finished on 365 all out with Archer bowling for KCSA and taking 2 wickets. KCSA finished the final day on 162-4.

Watch Archer's wicket below. 

Tymal Mills 

Tymal Mills and Islamabad United beat PSL leaders Multan Sultan in a thrilling game where both sides scored 200+. Multan Sultans scored a huge 228/4. Islamabad United chased down the mammoth chase with three wickets to spare with former Sussex overseas Shadab Khan hitting a 31 ball half century. 

Bertie Foreman 

Bertie Foreman is loving his cricket down under. Last weekend he helped Manly Warringah to victory over Penrith finishing with the exceptional figures of 7/38 from 15 overs as Penrith were all out for 101. Manly then declared on 259/5 to let Foreman cause chaos with the ball once again. Bertie took another 6 wickets finishing on 6/61 from 12.3 overs as Penrith were all out for 161. A 13 wicket haul for the Sussex spinner.

Bertie finished the regular season as leading wicket taker in the whole competition with 50 in 15 games with an average of 17.6 which included 26 in his last 4 games helping his side to 2nd place, taking them into the finals. 

Charlie Tear & Brad Currie 

The Sussex Duo did not play in Scotland’s first T20 match and loss to the United Arab Emirates. 

They both featured in the 2nd T20 and helped Scotland to a fantastic win! Scotland looked to be in trouble as they were all out for 94 but Brad Currie's exceptional bowling helped the Scots to victory! UAE were all out for just 62 as Currie took 3/7 of his 4 overs. Tear impressed with the gloves on, taking 2 catches, one being a world class dive down low to his right. Tear also stumped opener Wassim from the bowling of Currie ending a successful tour for the Sussex pair over in the UAE.

Watch Tear's catch below.

Oli Carter and Danial Ibrahim 

Olie and Danial helped Newcastle City to a win over in their game vs Cardiff Boolaroo. The duo helped their side to a 2nd place finish in the 1st Grade Rippit Premiership advancing them to the semi final. Ibrahim took 4/39 as Cardiff were all out for 129. Ibrahim then hit 32 as Newcastle finished on 236. Cardiff could not chase the target down and Ibrahim helped himself to another 2 wickets in the 2nd innings. 

Freya Kemp

Freya Kemp hit an quick 37 from 27 balls in England A’s warmup match vs New Zealand in Queenstown for their Tour of New Zealand. She is touring as a batter only to help her recovery and workload to get her back to full availability. 

Daniel Hughes

Sussex's new overseas hit a half century in his side New South Wales win over Queensland in the Sheffield Shield. Hughes was out for 17 in his first innings but helped secure the win with a knock of 54 of just 31 balls as they chased down the 133 runs required to win.

Jayden Seales

Seales took 2/48 in Trinidad and Tobago's match with the Windward Islands as they were all out for 191. Trinidad were all out for 294 in their 1st innings as the game continues on over the weekend. 

The Sussex Cricket Foundation and Webtrends Optimize presents DIScoverABILITY Weekend 2024

The Sussex Cricket Foundation is delighted to announce that DIScoverABILITY Day will return once again to the The 1st Central County Ground on Friday 10th May 2024 and will precede back-to-back disability cricket fixtures on the hallowed turf at Hove. 

Last year, another record-breaking DIScoverABILITY Day saw over 650 participants from 32 organisations, as well as 145 volunteers take to the field at The 1st Central County Ground for an action-packed day of batting, throwing, catching and bowling challenges, designed for all abilities and led by Sussex Cricket Foundation coaches.  

For the first time ever the spectacular disability sport event, one of the largest in the southeast, will be followed by two amazing fixtures of disability cricket. 

The first match will take place on Saturday 11th May and will see the Sussex Sharks VI (Visually Impaired) team take on Northamptonshire in a rescheduled cup final from 2023. 

That will then be followed by a D40 Quest League fixture between Sussex D40 and Lancashire on Sunday 12th May. 

The flagship weekend will take place during the Foundation’s Disability Cricket Month, which will showcase the players, teams, volunteers, and programmes which help to make up disability cricket in Sussex. 

Tom Belcher, Disability Cricket Manager for the Sussex Cricket Foundation is looking forward to an amazing weekend: “I am absolutely delighted to not only be able to announce DIScoverABILITY Day, but to be able to announce DIScoverABILITY Weekend, three days of fabulous fun and some high-class disability cricket. 

“To have both the Sussex Sharks VI and Sussex D40 sides play at a first-class ground once again, as well as our most important event in our calendar, DIScoverABILITY Day, all on the same weekend will be incredible for disability cricket in Sussex. 

“We look forward to welcoming as many people as possible to what will be three special days at The 1st Central County Ground.”

Anyone who would like to attend DIScoverABILITY Day or volunteer at the event is encouraged to contact the team at disabilitycricket@sussexcricket.co.uk

Tickets to both fixtures across the weekend will be completely free of charge, with information on how to claim yours coming in the next couple of weeks. 

Sussex Cricket reveals match kits 

for all Sussex teams ahead of the 2024 season

Sussex Cricket today unveiled the 2024 match kits for the men’s, women’s, D40 and Sharks Visually Impaired teams. 

Last week, Fynn Hudson-Prentice, Jack Carson, and James Coles were joined by Sussex Women’s Chiara Green, Daisy Gibb, Regina Suddahazai and Sussex D40 players James Bunday, Dan Gee and Megan Loveland for a photoshoot at The 1st Central County Ground. 

The match kits, along with the new training kits and Express Range, will be supplied by KitKing, in a multi-year deal that has seen Sussex become the only professional cricket team in the northern hemisphere wearing the Swoosh across their kits.

Sussex fans have already been able to get their hands on the new Nike Express Range and will soon be able to purchase both replica training and match kits ahead of the 2024 season. 

Keep an eye out in the coming weeks for information on how you can purchase your replica kits and support your favourite Sussex teams.

In this week’s Winter Watch we review Tymal Mills as he puts in another impressive performance over in Pakistan, plus we have updates on the multiple Sussex squad members playing all over the world. 

Tymal Mills continues impressive campaign in Pakistan

Tymal Mills was rested for Islamabad United’s win over Peshawar Zamir on Monday after their match two days before vs Quetta Gladiators was abandoned without a ball being bowled.

Mills was the pick of the bowlers for their win versus the Karachi Kings. Tymal took 3/34 from his four overs as Karachi finished on 150/7. Islamabad United chased it down with 8 balls to go which moves them up to 2nd behind Multan Sultans. 

Bertie Foreman stars again!

Bertie Foreman once again took another 4 wickets in Australia for 1st Grade club Manly Warringah, his 4-71 from 24 overs helped them towards a comprehensive victory over Mosman.  

Bertie is currently halfway through his match with Penrith and the Sussex youngster has already taken another 4 wickets with current figures of 4-24 of 10 overs. Penrith are currently 74/6 chasing Manly’s set target of 105. 

Robinson rested for Final Test

Ollie Robinson suffered from a sickness bug last week on top of a back issue suffered in the 4th test which has ruled him out of the final test vs India. 

Pujara knocked out of Ranji Trophy

Cheteshwar Pujara’s Saurashtra were knocked out of the Ranji Trophy in the quarter finals after Tamil Nadu won by an innings and 33 runs. Pujara was caught and bowled for 2 in his first innings and fell just 4 short of a half century in his 2nd innings knock of 46. Former Sussex player Jaydev Unadkat took 2-57 from 22 overs. 

Carter and Ibrahim knocked out of Summer Bash 

Oli Carter and Danial Ibrahim’s Newcastle City Sabres fell to defeat in the Summer Bash Quarter Finals vs Merewether Lions. Danial Ibrahim grabbed 2 wickets for himself finishing on 2-28 as the Lions set a target of 117 to win. Ibrahim managed 10 and Oli Carter fell for a duck as the Sabres finished 14 runs short of victory, finishing all out for 102.

Seales defeated in Trinidad

Sussex new overseas signing Jayden Seales lost to the Leeward Islands by 4 wickets in the West Indies Championship. Seales hit 15 in the opening Trinidad and Tobago innings as they finished on 137 and then took 1-49 from 14 overs in Leeward’s first innings as they finished on 318. Seales hit 11 in the 2nd innings as T & T finished on 342 but could not find a breakthrough wicket in Leeward’s winning chase. 

Canada defeat the Scots again

Charlie Tear and Brad Currie could not repeat their last match heroics as Canada defeated Scotland again. Scotland were all out for 197. Tear hit 18 opening the batting and Brad Currie was 8*. Canada chased the 197 comfortably finishing on 200/5. Currie took 1 wicket and finished on 1/36 of 10 overs while Tear took a catch from the bowling of Wheal. 

Women of Sussex Cricket come together for

International Women’s Day 

This week the female employees of Sussex Cricket met to celebrate International Women’s Day and discuss the challenges they face in an industry where they are disproportionally represented. 

Held in the Boardroom at The 1st Central County Ground, the meeting brought together female employees from across the organisation, including those from Professional Cricket, the Foundation and the Board of Sussex Cricket Limited. 

Led by Sussex Cricket’s People Director, Sam Holder, employees discussed a wide range of issues that not only impact themselves at work, but also female spectators and players that represent Sussex. 

One of the key objectives of the discussions was to ensure mechanisms were put in place to better improve collaboration between female employees across the organisation.

Other topics discussed included: making The 1st Central Ground a more welcoming environment for women, education on women’s health for female players at Sussex, as well as ways in which the Club can better promote women’s cricket across existing communication channels. 

Speaking on the event, Sam Holder, said: “Today was a fantastic opportunity to bring together women from across Sussex Cricket, to discuss common themes and issues impacting females in cricket and how these can be addressed. 

"It was inspiring to see the passion, commitment and hard work that has already taken place to progress women and girls’ cricket to date, but we still have work to do to ensure that women and girls have access to the same opportunities, facilities, and resources to support our ambition for cricket to be the most inclusive sport in the country. 

"I am excited by the passion shown by everyone present today. Together with the ongoing support of our colleagues within Sussex Cricket and the wider cricket community, I believe we can achieve great progress for women and girls in cricket”.

To find out more about women & girls’ cricket in Sussex, please visit: https://sussexcricket.co.uk/sussex-cricket-foundation/women-and-girls/international-womens-day 

Or to read more about International Women’s Day, click here.