Nottinghamshire host Sussex in their latest LV=County Championship match. The match runs from Saturday until Tuesday, with play beginning on the first day at midday after both sides had been in YB40 action on the Friday evening.

Notts currently sit mid-table with 80 points from seven Division One matches. Sussex lie third and are still unbeaten, with three wins and five draws from their opening eight fixtures.

Head To Head

There have been 107 previous championship meetings between Notts and Sussex at Trent Bridge, with the home side holding a 44-20 advantage, with a further 43 matches being drawn. 

Last Meeting

Last season’s Trent Bridge fixture ended in a draw, after Notts had dominated the first half of the contest. Sussex were dismissed for 171 in their first innings and faced a huge deficit as the home side posted 520 for four declared.

Michael Lumb, with 171, and James Taylor with an unbeaten 163, added 188 for the fourth wicket.

On a surface that offered little to the bowlers Sussex were untroubled in reaching safety, second time around, with Chris Nash (162) and Ed Joyce (98) sharing 216 for the first wicket as the match drifted to its inevitable conclusion.

Notts skipper Chris Read turned to an ‘alternative’ source of attack and was rewarded as Riki Wessels took a caught and bowled from the bat of Luke Wells, for his first championship wicket.

The day after Taylor’s 163 he was called up for his first Test appearance, v South Africa.

Stats

The most recent win for the home side was in 2009 with Samit Patel taking the honours after returning figures of 6-84.

Their largest ever win in the fixture came way back in 1895 when they triumphed by an innings and 378 runs. There have been five Nottinghamshire double-hundreds recorded on home soil, with William Gunn doing it twice. The largest of those contributions came way back in 1897 when John Dixon made 268 not out – but the most recent was by Reg Simpson, who hit 216 in 1952.

In 1890 Notts scored 590, the largest team total put on here against Sussex, whilst the lowest was 46 in 1902.

The visitors’ highest team score in Nottingham is the 562 they scored in 1959, whilst in the drawn 1979 contest Riki Wessels’ father, Kepler scored exactly 100 in the Sussex second innings.

Sussex’s Ben Brown, with 35 in 9 matches, tops the leading dismissals table of wicketkeeper’s this season, with Chris Read third on 30 from just 7 games.

Played For Both

Franklyn Stephenson, the last county cricketer to achieve the first class double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in the same season has links to both counties.

The Barbadian, who has hosted the Notts team at his cricket academy on their last two pre-season tours, joined Sussex in 1992 and appeared 62 times for them.

In 2000 Giles Haywood moved north to join Notts from Sussex but he only made five List-A appearances for the Outlaws before being released.

History

The highest opening partnership ever recorded against Nottinghamshire was by a pair of Sussex batsmen.

In 2001 Murray Goodwin and Richard Montgomerie put on an unbroken 372 for the first wicket here at Trent Bridge.

Montgomerie scored 160 not out, whilst Goodwin, who scored five career centuries v Notts, made an unbeaten 203 on that occasion.

Nottinghamshire team to face Sussex: Riki Wessels, James Taylor, David Hussey, Samit Patel, Steven Mullaney, Chris Read (c), Paul Franks, Andre Adams, Ajmal Shahzad, Luke Fletcher, Harry Gurney

Tickets

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Coverage

BBC Radio Nottingham will be providing ball-by-ball on-line commentary, via the BBC Sport website.