Cricket in Sheffield Park, Sussex

Brightling Park Cricket Club part 2

In this second conversation about Brightling Park Cricket Club, Keith Ridge, Sussex Cricket Museum curator talks to two of the club's players, including the club captain, about what it is like to play for the club.

Brightling Park Cricket Club part 1

This is the first of two conversations about Brightling Cricket Club, in which Sussex Cricket Museum curator Keith Ridge talks to Brightling local historian Jane Beard about the issues  facing local village clubs. The Brightling Park Cricket Club is located in a beautiful quiet setting in the High Weald of East Sussex but has a timber pavilion with no glass in the windows and no showers or toilets. How do they cope?

George Cox

George Cox was a veteran trundler. 100 years ago this month (June 2026),  Cox took 17 Warwickshire wickets for 106 runs in a first-class match. at Horsham at the age of 53. His figures remain the best bowling figures for the county. In this podcast Peter McQuade, author of a recent book on Cox, talks to Adrian Harms, BBC Radio Surrey and Sussex commentator about Cox's cricketing career which lasted from 1895 to 1928.

The story of a cricket ball!

Karen Linfield tells the story of how she acquired a cricket ball that was hit by Viv Richards through the commentary box window, during a match played at the County Ground against the West Indies in 1988.

Frances Low ( nee Manning) in conversation with Johnny Barclay

Frances Low was the first woman to join the Board of the Sussex County Cricket Club in the 1970s. In this podcast she talks to Johnny Barclay about her early interest in cricket and her love of scoring for Rottingdean Cricket Club before going on to talk about her time on the Sussex board.