Sussex Fact and Feats
- In 1938, three sets of brothers represented Sussex in the County Championship: James and John Langridge, Charlie and John Oakes, and Harry and Jim (sr) Parks.
- E. B. Dwyer (short for J.E.B.B.P.Q.C. Dwyer) played 61 times for Sussex between 1904 and 1909. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1876, he died in Crewe in 1912. He took 9-35 v Derbyshire at Hove in 1906. He was the great-grandson of Michael Dwyer, a convict who had been transported to Australia after the Irish insurrection of 1798.
- J.H. Parks scored 3,000 runs for Sussex in 1937 and took 100 wickets with inswingers and off cutters. He was capped just once for England that summer.
- Hugh Bartlett hit a hundred in only 57 minutes against Don Bradman's 1938 Australians.
- The club was left a sum of more than £10 million by former President Spen Cama.
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