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ere we go then – the beginning of another T20 season! It doesn’t seem two minutes since I walked through the door here at the BrightonandHoveJobs.com County Ground in the bleak mid-winter yet now we’re halfway through our LV=County Championship campaign and over halfway through the Yorkshire Bank 40 tournament. But now it’s time for a return to the fast-paced action of the Friends Life t20 and personally I can’t wait for it to get started!

It’s already been an eventful season here and a fantastic start to the Championship campaign has really boosted the feel-good factor both on and off the pitch. On the back of our two out-ground festivals, Horsham and Arundel, we’re now ready to bring the crowds back to Hove with our five home T20 group matches. We’re really lucky here to attract such big attendances for the campaign and we hope that it’ll be the same again this season. The atmosphere under the lights here at Hove on a T20 night really is an experience to behold and hopefully we can give you, our, fans something to shout about.

I’m also really excited about the squad we have together for this season’s tournament. Our two overseas big-hitters, Dwayne Smith and Scott Styris, can’t wait to get started. They’ve both, of course, had some fantastic times representing the Sharks in previous seasons. Dwayne was with us from 2008-10 and starred in the victory in the final of 2009, as his 59 runs from only 26 balls against Somerset at Edgbaston set the Sharks on their way to victory that night. Scott will be hoping to repeat his incredible feat of last

season where he smashed a century from only 37 balls on a balmy evening at Hove in the quarter final.

The knock against Gloucestershire was the catalyst us reaching Finals Day and we’ll be aiming to get there again this season.

Surrey, Hampshire, Middlesex, Essex and Kent stand in our way but there is guaranteed to be bighitting drama across the ten group matches.

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Luke Wright

COUNTY AND COUNTRY Sharks’ star all-rounder Luke Wright thinks the way back into the England one-day team is through more eye-catching performances for Sussex

By Mark Baldwin

Only one Sussex batsman – his opening partner Chris Nash – has scored more t20 runs for the Sharks than Luke’s 1,451.

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t 28, Luke Wright is in the prime of his cricketing life. Wanted by Twenty20 franchises around the lucrative global circuit, a central figure in England ’s international Twenty20 team, with whom he became a world champion in the Caribbean in 2010, he is also a serial winner at county level.

In his tenth season with Sussex, he has already won six trophies.

Yet Wright still has big ambitions, and the biggest of them is to get back into England’s one-day team at 50-over level. In the meantime, however, he sees continued success with Sussex as the best way to make sure future ambitions are realised.

“I am totally committed to Sussex cricket, and I’d like to think that every true fan of the county knows that,” said Wright, who has also received some criticism in recent times about his Twenty20 travels preventing him from turning out for a full county season. “Playing around the world, and in the IPL, has been great for me – but Sussex is also hugely important. I suppose the only way I can show that is by performing out there in the middle.”

Champions Trophy plans this summer, and admits that playing again for his country in full one-day internationals is a big incentive.

“Realistically, I think that Test recognition is not on the cards for me,” added Wright, “but I am desperate to get back into England ’s 50-over team.

I think I have something to offer, and just because I am now seen as a Twenty20 specialist it doesn’t mean to say I don’t want to play longer-form oneday international cricket or, indeed, the long form of the game in terms of first-class games with Sussex.”

“I am desperate to get back into England ’s 50-over team. I think I have something to offer” Wright certainly reminded English cricket and its followers about his prowess at the red-ball game with a recent match-saving innings of 187 against Middlesex in the LV= County Championship at Lord’s. His epic six and a half hour knock came after a defiant 77 in the first innings and Sussex, who had to follow on, would have been heavily defeated but for Wright’s skill and determination.

“I don’t think I’ve ever batted for as long as that,” said Wright about the nine and a half hours he batted in all against a highly-rated Middlesex attack.

“I definitely hadn’t ever batted twice in one day, as I did on the third day of that match after we followed on. But I love playing four-day cricket, and I hope it showed that I am not just a short-form cricketer.”

Wright has represented England in 46 limitedovers internationals, in addition to his 42 international Twenty20 caps, but the last of his 50-over appearances was in the winter of 2010-11.

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Dwayne Smith

LOOK WHO’S BACK! Dwayne Smith is a Shark again and when he’s around there is always something happening!

By Bruce Talbot

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ew players during the Twenty20 era have excited Sharks’ fans more than Dwayne Smith.

And after representing Sussex between 2008-10 – and helping us to win the competition for the first time in 2009 – the big hitter from Barbados is back for this season’s Friends Life T20.

Whether it’s his explosive batting, electrifying close-to-the-wicket fielding or canny bowling there is always something happening when Dwayne’s involved.

Now 30, since he last played for the Sharks against Hampshire Royals in July 2010 the 30-yearold has returned to the West Indies one-day squad and played T20 in the Indian Premier League for Mumbai Indians as well as a stint in the Bangladesh version for Khulna Royal Bengals.

boundary, but I also want to show I can play quality innings and can get runs consistently.”

In Mumbai Indians’ successful IPL earlier this year he opened the innings and will give Cricket Manager Mark Robinson another excellent option when it comes to team selection for this year’s competition.

Smith averaged 32.15 in 13 games for Mumbai with a top score of 68. Only West Indies’ team-mate Kieron Pollard and India’s Rohat Sharma finished above him in the averages and although he only bowled five overs in the competition there is every

“I know my role in the team and that is primarily to dig in and get good runs on the board. I can clear the boundary, but I also want to show I can play quality innings and can get runs consistently.”

Dwayne in action for IPL champions Mumbai Indians earlier this year

During his first spell with the Sharks Smith was regarded as a middle-order enforcer, someone who would come in during the second half of an innings and try to accelerate the scoring rate.

But it’s a more mature and experienced player who comes back to Hove this year. Last summer the West Indies selectors promoted him to No.3 in their one-day side and he responded with three fifties in five innings in series against England and New Zealand.

“I’m more experienced now and have a good understanding of what is required,” he said. “I know my role in the team and that is primarily to dig in and get good runs on the board. I can clear the

chance Sussex will call on him to add to the 28 T20 wickets he took in his first spell at Hove.

What Smith does undoubtedly bring is matchwinning potential. Who will ever forget his blistering 72 in only his second game for Sussex against Hampshire five years ago or the nerveless 59 off 26 balls in the 2009 final that put the Sharks on their way to victory over Somerset.

“Dwayne has the ability to win games by himself with the bat,” said Robinson. “He is [also] a more than useful bowler and he is one of the best fielders ever seen at Hove. Everybody is excited about his return.”

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CRICKETING MEMORY Trying to be one of the first kids in the changing room so that I could get the first pick of the all the spare cricket stuff. I had to show I was good enough first before getting my own kit!

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It wasn’t until 2006 that Sussex finally managed to beat their old rivals and in the end their five-wicket win at Hove, one of only four Sussex have managed in a decade of T20 against Surrey on their own patch, was straightforward enough.

The Sharks’ star of the show that night was Yasir Arafat, the Pakistan quick bowler who has represented both counties as well as Kent in T20.

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Matt Prior and Murray Goodwin laid the foundations for a successful chase with an opening stand of 57 while Arafat scored 10 at No.5 before an unbeaten 21 from Mike Yardy steered Sussex to

their second win out of three with ten balls to spare.

Remarkably, Luke Wright was due to come in at No.7.

Yasir said: “It was such a great team performance with everyone pulling together. That was the most important thing, although it was nice to get four wickets and man-of-the- match. We’ve got five games left and we are capable of winning all of them and we are desperate to reach the quarterfinals at least.”

His confidence, sadly, proved misplaced. Sussex only won twice more and finished fourth in the group. There was compensation, of course, in the form of a second Championship title and victory in the C&G final over Lancashire at Lord’s!

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t has now been 10 years since we were first introduced to T20 cricket. For Sussex, 2003 was a vintage year that coincided with our first Championship title success. It really does make me feel old to realise this exciting form of the game is in its 11th season. I never really played T20 as I was a 37-year-old with a dodgy back and in 2004 I was a year older with a healthy back but some seriously dodgy form behind me.

So I look back on the start of T20 through pretty negative eyes really. Most teams thought of it as a bit of fun. You know, a bit of a slog! How times have changed. The ECB dreamt up this format with one goal in mind. That was to revitalise the domestic game. Crowds were dwindling and the demographic of a cricket supporter was a male the other side of 50 and that needed to change. Who would have thought that 10 years on T20 matches at Hove consistently play to sell-out crowds and it is the biggest hospitality seller at the club.

All players want to play in front of big crowds with great atmospheres. It didn’t take long for youngsters, families and females to enjoy this three-hour bash under lights on a Friday evening.

Equally it didn’t take long for the coaching staffs to realise that they better start working on the tactical side of this shortened format of the game. Suffice to say, T20 really took off. It worked commercially for counties, it has worked technically for one-day cricket, it has worked financially for the players (with the emergence of the Indian Premier League) and it has certainly worked for the ECB in raising the profile of the game.

Fielding standards have gone through the roof as has the batsmen’s ability to hit the ball consistently out of the ground (ask our Corporate Members in the South East corner who are constantly ducking for cover!). Who would have thought they would see a batter switch-hit a 6 in an ODI but Kevin Pietersen managed that off Scott Styris in 2008. That shot certainly was derived from batting in the T20 format.

Dilshan scoops, Morgan reverse sweeps and seamers bowling slower ball bouncers out of the back of their hand are all skills first implemented in T20.

Sussex have been consistently good in this format of the game and what a great day out at Edgbaston it was in 2009 when Sussex beat Somerset to win the trophy with Dwayne Smith top scoring with 59 off 26 balls. Let’s hope that we can repeat the feat again this year, especially as we have re-signed Dwayne alongside Scott Styris for the 2013 campaign.

Cricketers love a coincidence and are certainly superstitious. I’ve randomly mentioned Scott Styris, Dwayne Smith and Finals Day is at Edgbaston again this year. My money is on “ Good Old Sussex by the Sea” bringing the silverware back to Hove in 2013.

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MAXWELL IN THE HOUSE

Surrey’s Australian powerhouse is one to watch

By Mark Pennell

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urrey appear to have shortened their odds for success in this year’s Friends Life t20 with the capture of Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell.

The 24-year-old Victorian from Kew, near Melbourne , will initially join Surrey for their first seven T20 games, but the county’s former team director, Chris Adams, believes Maxwell could be persuaded to stay on should they progress to the knock-out stages.

Adams said: “Glenn is one of the most exciting T20 players in the world and we are really looking forward to having him in the team.

“He’s your typical stand-and-deliver Aussie batter with enough power to hit the ball out of most grounds in the world. It tells you something that he was the most costly player at this year’s Indian Premier League auction.

“I know he turned down several other offers in the hope he might be included in Australia’s Ashes squad, but, once we saw that he’d missed out on that dream, we made our move and we’re delighted to have snapped him up.”

Maxwell, who has starred for Aussie franchises Melbourne Renegades and Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash, became the sole $1m signing at this year’s player auction in April ahead of the sixth IPL event.

Though he missed out on the final, Mumbai Indians - the eventual winners – were happy to pay seven figures for the services of the big hitting

right-hander and off-spinner, who comes up against Mumbai teammate Dwayne Smith tonight.

Maxwell, who has won two baggy green Test caps, quickly won a reputation in the short-form game by clubbing a 19-ball half-century for Victoria against Tasmania in 2010 – it remains the fastest 50 in the Australian domestic T20 game.

Though again missing out on cup final glory at The SWALEC Stadium in 2012, Maxwell also impressed during Hampshire’s run to victory when the Royals defeated Yorkshire by 10 runs in Cardiff .

In his nine appearances for Hampshire in last year’s rain-ruined group stages, Maxwell helped steer his side into the knockout phase by finishing second in the South Group with a playing record of five wins from 10 starts.

Maxwell topped their batting statistics after scoring 179 runs at an average of 44.75 and with a top score of 66 not out. More impressively perhaps, he hammered 13 sixes in the competition and sprinted along at a strike rate of 175.49 runs per 100 deliveries faced.

Added to which, Maxwell chipped in with seven wickets costing 26 apiece. He also bowled his 24 overs of off-spin at a reasonable economy rate of 7.69.

All in all, Surrey supporters may well have something good to cheer in this season’s FLt20 event once Maxwell enters the house.

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Surrey

STEWART LEADS NEW ERA It’s all change at Surrey following the departure of Chris Adams and the return of a very familiar face

By Bruce Talbot

In charge: Alec Stewart (left) had a mentoring role at Surrey in 2010 so his new job won’t be unfamiliar

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lec Stewart was been part of the Surrey cricket scene for more than three decades so when the county decided to part company with team director Chris Adams last week he was the obvious choice to step in.

It won’t be an all-encompassing role for the 50-year-old like the one Adams had for four-and-a-half years before his surprise mid-season departure at the Kia Oval.

Stewart, who became an executive director of Surrey two years ago, does not want the job on a full-time basis. He already has a busy portfolio of media work that he wants to continue doing.

On the day that Surrey announced he was forming a new management team with bowling coach Stuart Barnes, Stewart was commentating on a Champions Trophy game for Test Match Special. “It was an 18-hour day and I don’t think I’ve had a busier one,” he said.

“Stuart will run the playing side on a day to day basis with support and backing from myself. My role also involves planning for 2014 and the make-up of the squad and that includes contract negotiations.

“It is a challenge I am looking forward to. I was a player for 20-odd years and have been around the club a lot since and when the club asked me I had to make sure I could throw myself into it 100%.”

Stewart was a visible presence when Sussex hosted Surrey at Arundel in the County Championship a fortnight ago and while the Stewart name (his father Micky also played for the county) is as synonymous with The Oval as the famous gasholders it is often forgotten that he had a coaching role at Hove back in 2008.

He was asked to work with Sussex’s wicketkeepers, including both Matt Prior and Ben Brown, but he was also around to offer advice to Mark Robinson and the other players.

He returned to Surrey a year later in a part-time consulting role and four years on he is confident of helping the county turn their fortunes around after a disappointing first half of the summer during which they have failed to win a Championship game and are struggling to progress to the knockout stages of the Yorkshire Bank 40.

So the Friends Life t20 represents a fresh start for Stewart and Surrey and he has no doubt that they can flourish providing the environment to succeed is in place. “’Leave nothing to chance’ was my motto as a player and it will be the same in this role,” he added.

“We have made sure how the players understand how the new coaching set-up is going to work and to stress to them that their job is out in the middle: to score runs and take wickets.

“It is down to the players at the end of the day. Off the field you have to make sure they have everything possible to make sure they are as best prepared but once the game starts it is up to them.

“What we saw at Arundel two weeks ago was a decent performance. They are starting to show what they can do. We have a talented squad with some very fine players and it’s up to them now.”

There is no shortage of experience in the dressing room for the T20 campaign with Ricky Ponting, fellow Aussie Glenn Maxwell and the evergreen Azhar Mahmood all expected to play key roles.

Surrey were one of the powerhouses of T20 when it started a decade ago and won the first tournament. Progress to the knockout stages for the first time since 2006 would be a great way to get a new regime underway.

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10th Anniversary

SOMETHING DIFFERENT

Twenty20 celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and Sussex were present at its birth. Bruce Talbot, who reported on the opening game at Southampton, looks back with two members of the opening-night cast.

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t might not have been one of those ‘I was there ’ or ‘I remember where I was’ seminal moments of the last sporting decade such as Jonny Wilkinson’s World Cup-winning drop goal or when Billy Bowden pulled the stumps out of the Oval turf in 2005 to signify that England had regained the Ashes.

But for those of us at the Rose Bowl on Friday, June 13 2003 for the birth of Twenty20 cricket something did feel different. It’s just we weren’t sure what exactly that something different was.

This was cricket but not as we knew it, whether you were a Rose Bowl regular or a curious firsttimer eager to find out what the heavily promoted Twenty20 Cup was all about. The ECB had thrown a considerable sum at trying to get its message across that county cricket was not just for pensioners and anoraks with their flasks and packets of sandwiches.

Their exhaustive market research recognised a

massive interest in the game even if it wasn’t always evident at county grounds.

Just in case, though, there was a huge funfair and all manner of sideshows if the cricket didn’t prove that riveting. And after the game the all-girl band Misteeq were going to belt out their hits on a specially constructed stage on the outfield.

If it felt like a made-for-television product Sky Sports didn’t disappoint. To speed things up batsmen were only allowed 90 seconds to reach the middle at the fall of a wicket. Instead of emerging down the pavilion steps players sat in a dugout – all smoked glass ands curved edged - on the boundary edge, although, as Wisden dryly observed, these were replaced with a couple of garden benches for the next game. There were other innovations such as mic-ed players linking up directly with the commentators.

A packed Rose Bowl crowd as the first ball of the Twenty20 Cup is bowled by James Kirtley

33 An hour before the start it was obvious that there would be a big crowd. There were already more inside than Hampshire usually got for a one-day game and it was just as apparent that this was a different type of audience. There were women and lots of families and the money ECB spent heavily marketing cricket’s new baby as a competition that would appeal beyond the game’s traditional audience appeared to have been well spent.

That year Sussex’s focus was on their challenge for a first Championship title. Their then coach Peter Moores recalls very little time was spent honing specific Twenty20 skills. “I think we had two practice sessions,” he says. “I remember writing down a list of our best 11 fielders and working out a team from that. We were keen to do well in the competition because it had been hyped up a lot and I remember looking around just before we started and seeing how many people were there and thinking we might be on the verge of something pretty special.”

“I still remember it,” he said. “I bowled James Hamblin and then off my next ball Wasim Akram hit me for the first six! I suppose those two balls sum up Twenty20. As a bowler you had to think on your feet. I decided there and then I wouldn’t try to bowl a slower ball to a left-hander!

“You really had to mix things up. I would bowl a lot of slower balls, I’d bowl from well behind the crease or wide of the crease and try to almost develop a sixth sense for when the batsmen would try and get after you.”

The game itself ended in a fairly comfortable

An hour before the start it was obvious that there would be a big crowd. There were already more inside than Hampshire usually got for a one-day game.

Hampshire batted first and the honour of sending down the first ball in Twenty20 fell to James Kirtley.

“That opening delivery was such an anti-climax,” he recalls. “After all the build-up and expectation and with the crowd roaring as I ran in I sent down a wide! The batsman was James Hamblin, who I knew from Eastbourne and Zimbabwe cricket.

“I didn’t walk back to my mark, I jogged back – the emphasis was on making sure the game kept moving. And when I turned round to bowl again I remember thinking ‘I must get this right.’”

Bowling in Twenty20 proved a steep learning curve for even as experienced an international bowler as Kirtley. “You had to develop an instinct for when to bowl a slower ball or yorker. And of course you had to execute them under pressure.”

Kirtley shared the new ball that night with Jason Lewry. It could not be said that the genial left-armer had a stellar one-day career. Sussex preferred to rest his creaking limbs for the more important challenges of four-day cricket but he does have the honour of taking the first wicket in Twenty20.

Tim Ambrose, who top scored for Sussex, hits out.

Sussex’s first T20 uniform had red piping!

victory for Hampshire. Lewry finished with two wickets although it was off-spinner Mark Davis, with 3 for 13, who was Sussex’s most successful bowler as they dismissed Hampshire for 153 with two balls of their 20 overs remaining.

“The feeling initially was that bowling spin would be a gamble,” recalls Peter Moores. “The theory was that they would be on the receiving end but it soon became apparent that taking the pace off the ball was the way forward.” Six years later, when Sussex won the Twenty20 Cup, two of their key bowlers were both spinners: Mushtaq Ahmed, who also played in the opening game, and Saqlain Mushtaq.

Sussex’s run chase never really got going. A young Matt Prior, who still hadn’t played for England, opened but was out cheaply and although Tim Ambrose, made the competition’s first half-century Sussex lost by five runs.

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> crowd’s reaction was certainly positive. It was only after it was all over that their attentions turned to the funfair and Misteeq. Even then, the vast majority headed for the exits content that the game itself had been entertainment enough.

A decade on and in 2013 Twenty20 feels a lot different. Back then, few batsmen would have been capable of scoring 100 off 37 balls as Scott Styris did last year for Sussex or that teams could chase down scores well in excess of 200.

Counties have come to rely on the crowds and revenue T20 brings, although attendances are down on those of the first couple of years. A more

coherent fixture list from 2014, which will see counties play their home games on specific fixed days which have proved popular in the past, should help retain those for whom Twenty20 remains their only exposure to live cricket and even attract a few more.

These days Lewry’s involvement is that of a spectator introducing his three sons to the game through Twenty20. “It has been more evolution than revolution,” he says. “The basics are still the same.

Good bowling, batting and fielding will be rewarded whether it’s Twenty20 or Test cricket but it has been really good for the game overall. A full Hove watching Twenty20 is a great sight and wonderful to be part of as a player and it’s the same whoever you play or played for.”

A decade on and in 2013 Twenty20 feels a lot different. Back then, few batsmen would have been capable of scoring 100 off 37 balls as Scott Styris did last year for Sussex.

OPENING NIGHT SCORECARD Rose Bowl: Sussex won the toss Hampshire Hawks JRC Hamblin b Lewry 34 DA Kenway c Davis b Mushtaq Ahmed 35 Wasim Akram c Adams b Lewry 10 SM Katich b Martin-Jenkins 10 AD Mascarenhas run out 11 *JP Crawley not out 20 WS Kendall b Davis 12 +N Pothas st Ambrose b Davis 6 SD Udal run out 1 AD Mullally st Ambrose b Davis 0 ESH Giddins b Kirtley 1 Extras: (6 lb, 7 w) 13 Total (all out, 19.4 overs) 153 Fall: 1-66, 2-90, 3-91, 4-105, 5-112, 6-135, 7-147, 8-148, 9-148, 10-153.

Bowling: Kirtley 3.4-0-17-1; Martin-Jenkins 4-034-1; Innes 2-0-21-0; Lewry 3-0-31-2; Mushtaq Ahmed 4-0-31-1; Davis 3-0-13-3.

Sussex Sharks MJ Prior b Wasim Akram 4 B Zuiderent lbw b Mascarenhas 25 MW Goodwin lbw b Wasim Akram 0 *CJ Adams c Udal b Mascarenhas 5 RSC Martin-Jenkins b Hamblin 24 +TR Ambrose not out 54 KJ Innes c Mullally b Udal 10 Mushtaq Ahmed b Giddins 16 MJG Davis not out 2 Extras: (1 lb, 7 w) 8 Total: (7 wkts) 148 Fall: 1-15, 2-15, 3-27, 4-58, 5-75, 6-100, 7-145 Bowling: Wasim Akram 4-0-22-2; Giddins 3-0-20-1; Mascarenhas 4-0-51-2; Mullally 4-0-19-0; Udal 4-0-26-1; Hamblin 1-0-9-1.

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