Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Sussex. Its limited overs team is called the Sussex Sharks. The club was founded in 1839 as a successor to the various Sussex county cricket teams, including the old Brighton Cricket Club, which had been representative of the county of Sussex as a whole since the 1720s. The club has always held first-class status. Sussex have competed in the County Championship since the official start of the competition in 1890 and have played in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England.
1827 was the 41st season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club. It saw the first playing of the University match and the introduction of roundarm bowling as an accepted way of delivering the ball.
1823 was the 37th season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Henry Bentley issued his Correct Account of all Matches, 1786–1822.
1839 was the 53rd season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Sussex County Cricket Club was formally established as the first county cricket club and replaced the ad hoc county elevens representing the traditional county of Sussex in top-class cricket.
Horsham Cricket Club is one of the oldest cricket clubs in the world and represents the Sussex market town of Horsham in the Sussex Cricket League, along with Roffey Cricket Club.
A cricket team from South America toured England, Scotland and Wales in the 1932 season. The team played six first-class matches and 12 other games. A seventh first-class match with Worcestershire was abandoned without a ball being bowled.
Brighton Cricket Club was based at Brighton, Sussex and was briefly a top-class team, playing seven matches between 1791 and 1814 which have been given first-class cricket status. It is often seen as being representative of Sussex as a county.
Derbyshire County Cricket Club in 1884 represents the cricket season when the English club Derbyshire had been playing for thirteen years. They lost all ten county matches and their only victory was against MCC. Partly in response to this the club created as an offshoot the football club Derby County F.C. in 1884.
Henry Gwyn Saunders Davies was a Welsh first-class cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman.
Henry Beauclerk Bethune was an English first-class cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a slow bowler; the arm with which he bowled is unknown.
Charles Henry Ridding was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who occasionally played as a wicketkeeper.
Henry Tobias Frere was an English first-class cricketer. Frere was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm roundarm fast and who played occasionally as a wicketkeeper.
Henry William Tate was an English first-class cricketer. Tate was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm roundarm fast.
Henry Holmes was an English first-class cricketer. Holmes was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm roundarm medium. Holmes also played as an occasional wicketkeeper.
George Henry Longman was an English first-class cricketer. Longman was a right-handed batsman who played occasionally as a wicketkeeper.
William Ridding was an English cleric and cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played primarily as a wicketkeeper.
Arthur Fitzhardinge Kingscote was an English cricketer. Kingscote was born at Westminster in London.
Ronald Henry Willson is a former English cricketer. Willson was a left-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born in Seaford, Sussex.
Benjamin Ernest Nicholls was an English cricketer active in the 1880s and briefly in 1901, making sixteen appearances in first-class cricket. Nicholls was a right-handed batsman and right-arm slow bowler, who played first-class cricket for Sussex, Oxford University, and the Marylebone Cricket Club.
Henry Brydges Biron was an English clergyman and amateur cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club and for amateur teams between 1857 and 1864. He was born at Lympne in Kent and died at Derringstone near Barham, also in Kent in 1915 aged 79.