Post by hhsussex on Apr 5, 2016 14:00:35 GMT
As posted by softandfluffy (unofficialsussexccc.freeforums.net/post/16551/thread) Jim Anyon has now left the club. Whatever the reasons for the lack of public announcement it should be in order to make a small tribute to a player who raised his game on coming to Sussex and twice reached 50 wickets in a season, forming effective partnerships first with Amjad, then with Magoffin and Jordan, most successfully in 2013 when these three all took over 50 wickets.
Without being wholly consistent he was capable of extreme pace at times and bowled some very effective spells, although always likely to give runs away with his attacking short-pitched bowling. It is interesting that he found his metier with Sussex entirely as a red ball bowler, only appearing in 11 short-form games, whereas at Warwickshire, and briefly Surrey, his best results were in one-day games.
He took 199 first-class wickets for Sussex at 32.38 in 63 games. For his other counties he took 105 at 37.67, as well as 37 List A and 25 T20 wickets. He also developed a reputation for resourceful tail-end batting, hitting exuberantly whenever he could, but always providing resolution and often supporting middle-order batsmen to rebuild a Sussex innings and make it something worthwhile. For Sussex he scored 1086 runs at 16.45.
Good luck Jim in everything you do and thanks for the fun.
Without being wholly consistent he was capable of extreme pace at times and bowled some very effective spells, although always likely to give runs away with his attacking short-pitched bowling. It is interesting that he found his metier with Sussex entirely as a red ball bowler, only appearing in 11 short-form games, whereas at Warwickshire, and briefly Surrey, his best results were in one-day games.
He took 199 first-class wickets for Sussex at 32.38 in 63 games. For his other counties he took 105 at 37.67, as well as 37 List A and 25 T20 wickets. He also developed a reputation for resourceful tail-end batting, hitting exuberantly whenever he could, but always providing resolution and often supporting middle-order batsmen to rebuild a Sussex innings and make it something worthwhile. For Sussex he scored 1086 runs at 16.45.
Good luck Jim in everything you do and thanks for the fun.
