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