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Sussex play Durham in the Liverpool Victoria Championship match from Wednesday 16 to Saturday 19 August at the County Ground, Hove.  Play starts at 11am each day with gates opening at 9.30am.

The Sussex Squad
RR Montgomerie, CD Hopkinson, MH Yardy, MW Goodwin,*CJ Adams, RSC Martin-Jenkins, +MJ Prior, Yasir Arafat, Mushtaq Ahmed, RJ Kirtley, JD Lewry, LJ Wright, OP Rayner.

No injuries to report.

Sussex vs Durham
Since Durham joined the County Championship officially began in 1992

Overall, Sussex leads by nine wins to one, with one draw
In matches in Sussex, the home side have won four times, Durham just once.
This will be the fourth meeting between the side at Hove, and Sussex again lead the series by two wins to one.

Interesting Facts about this fixture:
Since Durham joined the County Championship officially began in 1992

Sussex’s only defeat in this fixture came the last time the teams met at Hove, back in 2001.
Sussex won the first five fixtures between the sides, and following a draw then won the next three in a row too.
In May’s fixture at the Riverside, Sussex’s score of 229 became the lowest score to win by an innings in the County Championship since Leicestershire (209/8 dec) beat Glamorgan (24 & 66) at Leicester in August 1971.  In their second innings, Durham lost all ten wickets within the space of just 58 minutes.

UPCOMING LANDMARKS:
Murray Goodwin needs 79 more runs for 8,000 First-Class Runs for Sussex.
Mushtaq Ahmed needs 6 more wickets for 1,250 Career First-Class Wickets.
Michael Yardy  needs 2 more catches for 50 First-Class Catches.