Sussex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Sussex. Its limited overs team is called the Sussex Sharks.
The club plays most of its home games at the County Cricket Ground, Hove. The club also plays some games around the county at Arundel, Eastbourne and Horsham.
Having won its first-ever official County Championship title in 2003, Sussex repeated the success in 2006. The 2006 title was secured following a victory against Nottinghamshire, in which Sussex outplayed their hosts by an innings and 245 runs. Sussex then won the title for the third time in five years in 2007, after the team had beaten Worcestershire CCC, and Lancashire CCC had failed to win their final match of the season.

Honours

Second XI Championship (3) – 1978, 1990, 2007; shared (0) –
Second XI Trophy (1) – 2005
Minor Counties Championship (0) – ; shared (0) – Second XI honours
Most first-class runs for Sussex Qualification - 20000 runs [1]
Most first-class wickets for Sussex Qualification - 1000 wickets [2]

Records

Highest Total For – 705-8 declared v Surrey at Hastings (1902)
Highest Total Against – 726 by Nottinghamshire at Nottingham (1895)
Lowest Total For – 19 v Surrey at Godalming (1830)
Lowest Total Against – 18 by Kent at Gravesend (1867) Team

Highest Score – 335* M Goodwin v Leicestershire at Hove (2003)
Most Runs in Season – 2850 JG Langridge (1949)
Most Runs in Career – 34152 JG Langridge (1928-1955) Batting

1st – 490 EH Bowley and JG Langridge v Middlesex at Hove (1933)
2nd – 385 EH Bowley and MW Tate v Northamptonshire at Hove (1921)
3rd – 385* MH Yardy and MW Goodwin v Warwickshire at Hove (2006)
4th – 326 J Langridge and G Cox v Yorkshire at Leeds (1949)
5th – 297 JH Parks and HW Parks v Hampshire at Portsmouth (1937)
6th – 255 KS Duleepsinhji and MW Tate v Northamptonshire at Hove (1930)
7th – 344 KS Ranjitsinhji and W Newham v Essex at Leyton (1902)
8th – 291 RSC Martin–Jenkins and MJG Davis v Somerset at Taunton (2002)
9th – 178 HW Parks and AF Wensley v Derbyshire at Horsham (1930)
10th – 156 GR Cox and HR Butt v Cambridge University at Cambridge (1908) Highest partnership for each wicket

Best Bowling – 10-48 CHG Bland v Kent at Tonbridge (1899)
Best Match Bowling – 17-106 GR Cox v Warwickshire at Horsham (1926)
Wickets in Season – 198 MW Tate (1925)
Wickets in Career – 2211 MW Tate (1912-1937) Earliest cricket
Although Sussex had been a major cricket centre since the 17th century, there had apparently been no move towards a permanent county organisation until 17 June 1836 when a meeting in Brighton set up a Sussex Cricket Fund to support county matches. It was from this organisation that Sussex County Cricket Club was formally constituted on 1 March 1839.
Sussex CCC played its initial first-class match versus MCC at Lord's on 10 & 11 June 1839. The club has been regarded as first-class continuously since its formation.
Sussex CCC is England's oldest county cricket club.

Origin of club
The Sussex crest depicts the mythological bird the Martlet, famous for having no feet. Capped players have six martlets on their sweaters whilst non-capped players have just the club crest on the left breast. When it comes to caps the capped players have a crest with gold trimming whilst non-capped have white trimming.

Sussex Crest
The Club has used four cricket grounds in Brighton & Hove - matches were played on a ground donated by the then Prince Of Wales and the ground was fittingly called 'The Prince of Wales Ground (where Park Crescent now lies), Temple Fields (where Montpelier Crescent now lies), Royal Brunswick Ground (where Third and Fourth Avenues are situated) and finally in 1871 the ground in Eaton Road was acquired from the Trustees of the Stanford Estate. Turf from the Royal Brunswick Grounds was transferred and re-laid on the square.
The first County match was played at Eaton Road on 6 June 1872 against Gloucestershire. As well as the County Ground, Hove, the Club's First and Second XI regularly play around the County, the grounds at Worthing Cricket Club, Eastbourne and Arundel Castle playing host to First XI fixtures.

Sussex Grounds
The Sussex squad for the 2008 season currently consists of (this section could change as players are released or signed):
Players with international caps are listed in bold.

2008 squad

Chris Adams
Mohammad Akram
Mushtaq Ahmed
Michael Bevan
Ted Bowley
Harry Butt
George Cox senior
Ted Dexter
Vasbert Drakes
Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji
C.B. Fry
Tony Greig
Imran Khan
James Langridge
John Langridge
William Lillywhite
Javed Miandad
Murray Goodwin
Saqlain Mushtaq
Alan Oakman
Jim Parks junior
Jim Parks senior
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
Matthew Prior
Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji
Dermot Reeve
Albert Relf
John Snow
Ken Suttle
Maurice Tate
Joe Vine
John Wisden
Luke Wright
Michael Yardy
Alan Wells
Matt Prior Notable Sussex Cricketers
Sussex Women have produced many England capped players. These include:
Sussex Women won the County Championship in 2003, 2004 and 2005.

Clare Connor (Captain of 2005 Ashes Winning Side)
Caroline Atkins
Rosalie Birch
Holly Colvin
Laura Marsh
Sarah Taylor Sussex Fact and Feats