All-Round Play

The tables below set out records for the main categories of individual achievement in the men’s official County Championship starting in 1890.
Names of Sussex-born players are set in italics.

Most runs and wickets in an innings

Pos Player Performance Match Ground Season
1 G.Bean 186
8-31
Sussex v Lancashire
Sussex v Yorkshire
Manchester
Dewsbury
1893
1891
2 A.E.Relf 189*
9-95
Sussex v Hampshire
Sussex v Warwickshire
Portsmouth
Hove
1906
1910
3 R.R.Relf 272*
8-79
Sussex v Worcestershire
Sussex v Essex
Eastbourne
Hove
1909
1910
4 J.Vine 202
8-76
Sussex v Northamptonshire
Sussex v Nottinghamshire
Hastings
Nottingham
1920
1901
5 M.W.Tate 203
9-71
Sussex v Northamptonshire
Sussex v Middlesex
Hove
Lord’s
1921
1926
6 G.R.Cox 167*
9-50
Sussex v Hampshire
Sussex v Warwickshire
Chichester
Horsham
1906
1926
7 E.H.Bowley 280*
9-114
Sussex v Gloucestershire
Sussex v Derbyshire
Hove
Hove
1929
1929
8 Jas. Langridge 167
9-34
Sussex v Nottinghamshire
Sussex v Yorkshire
Nottingham
Sheffield
1936
1934
9 C.Oakes 160
8-147
Sussex v Glamorgan
Sussex v Kent
Chichester
Tonbridge
1950
1939
10 A.W.Greig 226
8-25
Sussex v Warwickshire
Sussex v Gloucestershire
Hastings
Hove
1975
1967
11 Imran Khan 167
8-34
Sussex v Gloucestershire
Sussex v Middlesex
Hove
Lord’s
1978
1986

Most runs and wickets in a season

Pos Player Season Mtch Runs Avge Wkt Avge Ratio
1 Jas Langridge 1933 27 1,340 41.87 136 15.50 2,70
2 M.W.Tate 1924 23 1,095 30.41 139 12.61 2.41
3 M.W.Tate 1926 17 1,054 34.00 106 15.83 2.14
4 A.E.Relf 1913 26 1,560 34.66 116 17.57 1.97
5 M.W.Tate 1925 28 1,162 24.72 194 13.44 1.83
6 M.W.Tate 1923 28 1,000 23.25 174 13.19 1.76
7 M.W.Tate 1927 26 1.346 34.51 119 20.09 1.71
8 M.W.Tate 1928 26 1,174 31.10 127 18.51 1.62
9 A.E.Relf 1911 24 1,375 31.97 116 20.95 1.52
10 A.E.Relf 1908 28 1,130 27.56 109 19.11 1.44
11 E.H.Killkick 1905 28 1,241 27.57 101 20.28 1.35
12 A.E.Relf 1910 26 1,098 24.95 128 19.99 1.24

Most runs and wickets in a career

Over 10,000 runs and 1,000 wickets

Pos Player Seasons Mtch Runs Avge Wkt Avge Ratio
1 Jas Langridge 1924-1953 561 25,893 35.18 1,257 22.07 1.59
2 M.W.Tate 1912-1937 479 15,240 23.82 2,014 17.55 1.35
3 A.E.Relf 1900-1921 401 16,557 28.11 1,428 21.01 1.33
4 G.R.Cox 1898-1928 555 12,507 18.34 1,645 22.53 0.81

Over 5,000 runs and 500 wickets, excluding players above

Pos Player Seasons Mtch Runs Avge Wkt Avge Ratio
1 J.Vine 1896-1922 451 21,399 30.48 519 29.87 1.02
2 E.H.Bowley 1912-1914
1920-1934
415 22,861 34.42 594 25.35 1.35
3 J.H.Parks 1924-1939 398 17,874 30.50 723 26.25  
4 A.S.M.Oakman 1947, 1948,
1950-1968
448 17,952 25.53 601 27.39  
5 E.H.Killick 1893-1913 275 16,101 26.13 630 27.65  
6 A.E.R.Gilligan 1920-1929
1931, 1932
208 6,227 20.34 594 20.86 0.97
7 A.F.Wensley 1922-1936 334 8.744 19.97 918 26.51 0.74
8 N.I.Thomson 1952-1965, 1972 375 6,379 14.39 1,431 20.33 0.70