June 23, 2006
Sussex v Gloucestershire at Arundel, 25 June 2006
Forget the football, forget Elton John - the cricket is on! Sussex play Gloucestershire at Arundel in the C&G Trophy on Sunday 25 June. Play starts at 10.45am.
The Sussex Squad
R R Montgomerie, M J Prior, (wkt), C J Adams, (capt), M W Goodwin, MH Yardy, C D Hopkinson, L J Wright, R S C Martin-Jenkins, Mushtaq Ahmed, R J Kirtley, JD Lewry, Yasir Arafat, SA Heather.
There are no injuries to report.
Sussex vs Gloucestershire in One-Day Cricket
The teams have met on 45 previous occasions in One-Day cricket, with Gloucestershire leading the series 23-20, with two No Results.
This will be the second meeting of the sides at Arundel Castle – the visitors won on their previous visit to the ground, in 1972.
This will be the sixth meeting between the sides in the C&G Trophy – Sussex won the first two meetings (in 1968 and 1969), but Gloucestershire the last three (in 1971, the 1973 Final and 1987).
Interesting Facts about this fixture:
The teams last played each other in 2002 in the NCL, when Gloucestershire won at Cheltenham by six wickets, with the return match at Hove abandoned by heavy rain after just 10 balls.
Sussex’s best sequence in this fixture is seven wins, achieved from 1980-86. Gloucestershire are unbeaten in the last seven meetings between the sides – with six consecutive wins and a No Result dating back to 1997.
As previously mentioned, the sides did meet in the 1973 Final, when Gloucestershire won by 40 Runs.
