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"Our goal is to win Division One": Paul Farbrace says Sussex are in it to win it

HUW TURBERVILL: After gaining promotion and making the T20 Blast final in 2024, the club are ambitious ahead of their first season in the top flight since 2015

Richard Dawson presses the reset button and prays Glamorgan's stars stay fit

MEN'S COUNTY TEAM GUIDE 2025: Another season, another head coach. It is easy to forget that last summer included a second One-Day Cup in four years and Sam Northeast's colossal innings at Lord's

Sussex spell out their desired 2026 fixture list

HUW TURBERVILL: The club plan will argue for two fewer County Championship matches, a reduction in T20 Blast group games, a full-strength 50-over comepietion held earlier in the season, and a spot in the second tier of The Hundred

Poor Jofra Archer… I'm glad Richard Hadlee was never used as cannon fodder

After the England seamer delivered the most expensive IPL figures of all time during Rajasthan Royals's crushing 44-run loss in the IPL, HUW TURBERVILL reminisces about some of the great contests between bat and ball

"Useless" wicketkeeper, lifelong Lancashire fan and reporter - Andy Peebles on why he loved cricket

The former BBC Radio 1 DJ and presenter, who passed away today (March 23), aged 76, was the last person to interview John Lennon, two days before he was killed and reported on cricket for 27 years

The system which would make counties work harder for their money

HUW TURBERVILL: Would the use of a grading system, based on similar criteria used in rugby league, to establish a hierarchy be a better way to keep counties on their toes?

Tony Pigott: "I was meant to get married that weekend, but I'd have run through a brick wall to play for England"

HUW TURBERVILL: Pigott postponed his wedding to answer England's SOS call in New Zealand in 1983/84; the 66-year-old, a seamer for Sussex and Surrey, now lives in Wadhurst and pleasingly is all clear after a battle with oesophageal cancer

Sophia Gardens in Washington DC? Glamorgan thrilled with their new Welsh Fire partners

HUW TURBERVILL: Sanjay Govil, who purchased a 50 per cent stake in Welsh Fire, may use Sophia Gardens as inspiration for Washington Freedom's new home

Kent and Lord's art mystery solved thanks to The Cricketer

Sixty-year-old magazine photo ends puzzle over historic painting

Adam Hollioake v Darren Lehmann: The heavyweight clash kicking off the County Championship

HUW TURBERVILL: Wantage Road plays host to an intriguing round one clash between contrasting characters

Mark Stoneman rocks up to Dunottar School to test boutique bats

Former England opener and Bryony Smith put new gear through its paces at The Cricketer's bat testing day

Sussex to sign ACE captain after open trials at Hove

HUW TURBERVILL: The Cricketer understands that Sussex have offered a one-year deal to Troy Henry, a slow left-armer and left-handed, top-order batter

Ashley Giles: "The Hundred has done the job it was introduced for"

HUW TURBERVILL: The former England spinner on the 2005 Ashes, his varied CV, the challenges facing Worcestershire, and The Hundred

England Men's ODI journey has been a long and winding road

HUW TURBERVILL: Whether it be selection or philosophy, the approach to 50-over cricket hasn't always been completely clear or successful

England's critics continue to be driven to distraction

HUW TURBERVILL: Brendon McCullum's charges have again come under scrutiny for how they spend their time between matches. Whatever your perspective, performances have been undoubtedly poor

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