Player Profiles (A-F)

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John Barclay was born in 22 January 1954 in Bonn, but his parents moved back to Britain when he was two. The family lived close to the cricket ground in Horsham, and this helped to kindle a love of cricket at an early age. He attended Eton College, excelling at cricket by getting into the 1^st XI at the age of fifteen as an all-rounder. He made his debut for Sussex at the age of sixteen, in 1970, whilst still at school, playing two matches for the county, and in that season scored a total of 897 runs for the school, a record, and also took 28 wickets.

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Ted Bowley ranks amongst the greatest of Sussex’s professional batsmen, alongside the likes of Joe Vine and John Langridge. He was the mainstay of Sussex batting in the 1920s when the team’s batting was generally quite unreliable. He was by technique and inclination an ideal number four batsman, but the demands of the team meant that he is better known as an opener.

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Tom Box played much of his cricket before the advent of the county side in 1839. He made his debut in 1826, the first new player for five years, and played for 31 years and did not miss a match in 24 of these years.

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Tommy Cook was born at 30 South Street, Cuckfield on 5 February 1901, where his parents Alfred and Eliza ran a sweet shop. He showed early promise as a footballer and was only 12 when he started playing for Cuckfield Football Club. He excelled in several areas of his life but ultimately his life ended in tragedy.

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James Dean, or Jemmy Dean as he is normally known, was a most unlikely looking cricketer, weighing 12 stone with a height of just 5ft 7in. He was rather portly and rustic looking and as he bowled seemed to roll from side to side yet he was skilful with both ball and bat. He played for Sussex for twenty five years, taking 491 wickets with his fast round arm bowling.

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Ted Dexter was one of the most exciting cricketers who emerged in the Post War period. Like Ranji before him, the prospect of Dexter attacking fast bowling, and driving and cutting them with fierce strokes was enough to put thousands on any gate. He was a cricket thinker who helped to revolutionise the way the game was played and in so doing led Sussex to their first ever trophies in 1963 and 1964.

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Hubert Doggart was born in Earls Court London on 18 July, 1925. He was educated at Winchester College and then Cambridge University where he made his first class debut in 1948 at the age of twenty two – the same year as his debut for Sussex. He was a stylish right hand batsman who made a double century on debut for Cambridge, scoring 215 not out against Lancashire – the highest score by an Englishman on debut since 1826. In addition to his Blue for cricket at Cambridge, Doggart was awarded a Blue for football and a half Blue for three other sports.

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Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji (“Duleep”), the nephew of Ranjitsinhji, was an exceptionally gifted Indian cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Sussex and England before India achieved Test status.

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CB Fry is one of the legendary figures of English sport, and some would consider him the greatest English sportsman of all time. He was educated at Repton and Oxford and gained a university Blue in football, cricket and athletics and only missed out on a rugby Blue because of an injury. He was also an excellent scholar, having gained a senior scholarship to Wadham College and gained a First in Classical Moderations.

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