Captaincy

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.

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.Ranjitsinhj, then the Maharajah of Nawanagar, is the oldest player to captain the side: he was 47 yr, 10 mth in the match v Yorkshire, Leeds, 1920.