Bowling

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.

Analysis	Player	Match	Ground	Season
25.2-9-48-10	C.H.G.Bland	Sussex v Kent	Tonbridge	1899
34.2-19-49-10	N.I.Thomson	Sussex v Warwickshire	Worthing	1964
33.4-15-34-9	Jas.Langridge	Sussex v Yorkshire	Sheffield	1934
11.2-1-35-9	J.E.B.B.P.Q.C.Dwyer	Sussex v Derbyshire	Hove	1906
23.3-11-44-9	J.E.B.B.P.Q.C.Dwyer	Sussex v Middlesex	Hove	1906
23.2-2-46-9	R.G.Marlar	Sussex v Lancashire	Hove	1955
11.3-2-48-9	Mushtaq Ahmed	Sussex v Nottinghamshire	Nottingham	2006
36.5-17-50-9	G.R.Cox	Sussex v Warwickshire	Horsham	1926
22-5-53-9	J.H.Cornford	Sussex v Northamptonshire	Rushden	1949
33.5-13-60-9	A.E.James	Sussex v Yorkshire	Hove	1955
39.1-12-71-9	M.W.Tate	Sussex v Middlesex	Lord’s	1926
41.3-15-73-9	F.W.Tate	Sussex v Leicestershire	Leicester	1902
30.1-10-78-9	O.E.Robinson	Sussex v Glamorgan	Cardiff (SG)	2021
40.9-9-95-9	A.E.Relf	Sussex v Warwickshire	Hove	1910
39.4-8-114-9	E.H.Bowley	Sussex v Derbyshire	Hove	1929

Notes: The table lists, in runs-conceded order, all instances of bowlers taking nine or ten wickets in an innings. The first column, headed Analysis, gives overs bowled, maidens, runs and wickets, in that order. Matches highlighted in bold indicate instances in the second innings. In the Bland instance, overs were of five balls; in all other instances overs were of six balls.

Dwyer was playing in his first match in the competition in 1906. Marlar’s 9-46 is the best innings return by an amateur. Cox took seventeen wickets in the fixture v Warwickshire, Horsham, 1926, the most in a match; he was 52 yr, 6mth at the time. F.Parris took 15 wickets for 98 (7-70, 8-28) v Gloucestershire, Bristol, 1894, the most for the county in a day’s play.

Pos	Player	Season	Mtch	Overs	Wickets	Avge
1	M.W.Tate	1925	28	1,309.1	194	13.44
2	M.W.Tate	1923	28	1,277.1	174	13.19
3	G.R.Cox	1905	28	1,378.3	154	21.40
4	F.W.Tate	1902	20	974.2	153	14.28
5	M.W.Tate	1924	23	930.3	139	12.61
6	G.R.Cox	1907	26	1,061.4	138	18.39
7	M.W.Tate	1934	29	1,403.2	137	19.00
8	Jas.Langridge	1933	27	1,034.3	136	15.50
9	A.E.R.Gilligan	1923	26	771.4	129	15.01
10	A.E.Relf	1910	26	1,109.2	128	19.99
11	M.W.Tate	1928	26	1,189.1	127	18.51
12	F.W.Tate	1901	24	1,009.1	126	20.00
13	M.W.Tate	1932	26	1,071	124	15.58
14	N.I.Thomson	1961	31	1,170.2	124	21.21
15	N.I.Thomson	1958	27	897	123	15.91
16	W.A.Humphreys	1893	16	643.4	122	16.43
17	N.I.Thomson	1954	28	991.2	122	19.04
18	N.I.Thomson	1959	28	1,092	120	21.32

Notes: The table lists all bowlers taking 120 wickets or more in a season. In the Humphreys instance, overs were of five balls: in all other instances overs were of six balls.

Maurice Tate took five wickets in an innings on 22 occasions in 1925, the most in a season. Gilligan took the most wickets in a season by an amateur. Humphreys was an underarm bowler and the only instance of such a bowler taking 100 wickets in a season for any county.

Pos	Player	Seasons	Mtch	Overs	Wickets	Avge
1	M.W.Tate	1912-1937	479	17,826.2	2,014	17.55
2	G.R.Cox	1898-1928	555	15,738.3*	1,645	2253
3	N.I.Thomson	1952-1965, 1972	375	13,110.4	1,431	20.33
4	A.E.Relf	1900-1921	401	13,674.3	1,428	21.01
5	Jas.Langridge	1924-1953	561	12,206.4	1,257	22.07
6	F.W.Tate	1891-1905	244	8,993.5*	1,062	21.37
7	J.H.Cornford	1931-1952	310	9,896.5*	961	26.20
8	A.F.Wensley	1922-1936	334	10,120.3	918	26.51
9	A.Buss	1958-1974	282	8,043.5	886	24.99
10	J.A.Snow	1961-1977	248	6,794	821	21.68
11	A.E.James	1948-1960	263	8,784.1	755	26.59
12	D.L.Bates	1950, 1951, 1953, 1955-1971	283	7,388.5	773	26.27
13	J.H.Parks	1924-1939	398	8,520.2*	723	26.13
14	R.G.Marlar	1951-1961, 1968	205	6,091.1	677	23.92
15	E.H.Killick	1893-1913	397	5,974*	630	27.66
16	A.S.M.Oakman	1947, 1948, 1950-1968	448	6,605.5	601	27.39

Notes: The table lists all bowlers taking 600 or more wickets in a career. An asterisk indicates bowlers who have bowled in seasons when five- or eight-ball overs were in use: these have been converted to their six-ball equivalent for this table.

Maurice Tate took five wickets in an innings on 149 occasions in his career, the most for the county. Marlar took 676 wickets in his career when playing as an amateur, the most for the county.

Bowling

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