Appearances

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 appearances

Pos Matches Player Seasons Runs Wkts Ct/st
1 561 Jas.Langridge 1924-1953 25,893 1,257 309
2 555 G.R.Cox 1898-1928 12,507 1.645 485
3 546 K.G.Suttle 1949-1971 26,588 242 343/2
4 518 J.M.Parks 1949-1972 27,233 27 813/61
5 505 J.G.Langridge 1929-1955 30,338 33 707
6 479 M.W.Tate 1912-1937 15,240 2,014 200
7 461 H.R.Butt 1890-1912 6,179 0 809/233
8 452 W.L.Cornford 1921-1939, 1947 5,837 0 608/299
9 451 J.Vine 1896-1922 21,399 519 185
10 448 A.S.M.Oakman 1947, 1948, 1950-1968 17,952 601 507
11 432 H.W.Parks 1926-1948 19,471 9 170
12 418 T.E.R.Cook 1922-1937 18,247 66 157/1
13 415 E.H.Bowley 1912-1914, 1920-1934 22,861 594 296
14 401 A.E.Relf 1900-1921 16,557 1,428 349
15 400 G.Cox 1931-1955, 1957, 1960 19,351 161 128

Notes: The table lists all players making 400 or more appearances. Matches abandoned without a ball bowled are excluded.
 
Suttle’s appearances include 423 successive matches from 1954 to 1969, the most for any county. A.H.H. Gilligan made 264 appearances between 1919 and 1932, the most by an amateur. G.R. Cox is the oldest player for the side: he was 54 yr 6 mth in the match v Hampshire, Horsham, 1928. J.R.T.  Barclay is the youngest: he was 16 yr, 6 mth in the match v Glamorgan, Swansea, 1970.

Most matches as captain

Pos Player Matches Seasons Highest finish
1 A.E.R.Gilligan 166 1920-1929 4th in 1929
2 C.J.Adams 165 1998-2008 1st in 2003, 2006, 2007
3 R.G.Marlar 137 1955-1960 4th in 1955
4 J.R.T.Barclay 117 1979-1986 2nd in 1981
  H.P.Chaplin 117 1910-1914 6th in 1914
6 A.J.Holmes 115 1925, 1935-1939 5th in 1937
7 W.L.Murdoch 113 1893-1899 5th in 1899
8 M.G.Griffith 101 1968-1972 7th in 1969
9 K.S.Ranjitsinhji 100 1896, 1899-1903, 1908, 1912, 1920 2nd in 1902, 1903,
10 E.R.Dexter 98 1960-1965 4th in 1960, 1963
11 A.P.Wells 95 1990-1996 7th in 1996
12 A.H.H.Gilligan 86 1920, 1922-1930 7th in 1930
  H.T.Bartlett 86 1939-1949 9th in 1947
14 Jas Langridge 83 1950-1953 10th in 1951
15 C.L.A.Smith 77 1905-1909, 1911 4th in 1909

Notes: The table lists all players captaining the side in 75 or more matches. In a small number of matches, information on captains is missing: this may affect the figures for one or two players listed above. The years given in the ‘Seasons’ column include matches where a player was a ‘stand-in’ captain, in addition to those as a full ‘appointed’ captain for a season. The ‘Highest Finish’ column refers to seasons in which the player was a full ‘appointed’ captain.
 
G.A.K. Collins is the youngest player to captain the side: he was 20 yr,1 mth in the match v Somerset, Bath, 1929. K.S. Ranjitsinhji, the nineteenth Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, is the oldest player to captain the side: he was 47 yr, 10 mth in the match v Yorkshire, Leeds, 1920.