T20 v Kent at Canterbury, Thu 30th June

Briggs really is Pants!

Don't think you should insult Briggs. You should blame Davis and Wright for picking him

Completely agree. Team seems to be selected on 'we're paying players like Cachopa and Briggs top salaries so we'd better get our money's worth' rather than picking the XI most suited to winning the game.

At the moment I never want to see Briggs bowl in a Sussex shirt again. And how was Cachopa, who has barely scored a run in two years home and abroad,  selected ahead of Brown, who I think scored four f/c centuries last season?

One doesn't mind getting comprehensively thrashed by a better team. But that really wasn't what happened out there. Sussex had the game in the palm of their hand before the batsmen screwed it up. How come Jordan - one of the few Sussex bastmen who can hit a genuinely long ball - never even got to the crease? If I was one of the Sussex bowlers I'd be feeling pretty murderous towards the batsmen right now.

Yeah that was a p**s poor chase and I can only echo echo all the thoughts on Cachopa, Briggs ect. With Salt, I reckon he needs to open with absolute freedom right now - he felt the pressure and he's pretty much a kid. We've got a serious problem with our batting after four - serious problems need addressing.

Talking of serious problems, the chase reminded me of the England footie team the other night actually - eerily void of a fundamental will, or something. A worrying lack of something very important that comes from the heart and the spine.

For me, Wright's 'sunstroke' was embarrassing and pathetic - and it set the tone for the chase. We've had three billion gallons of rainfall this summer and we get two delays because of the sun - play you joker. It happens when you drive too but you don't stop, you deal with it. The second joke was worse than the first, granted, but both episodes were shameful.

BM, re Salt and Jason Roy, a little unkind to write him off. Roy's taken 4-5 years to reach a level to play for England. Salt has just started, what's he 19? Played 3 T20, 2 50 over games, be fair. Perhaps he could be the equal, potential etc. You're better than that and you know it.
He's not to blame for the loss at Kent. Let's look at Nash shall we? How many runs has this seasoned T20 player scored since Somerset? Not nearly enough? Correct.
How many has Machan scored in helping to win a game or set a total? Not nearly enough? Correct.

I agree that coach and captain need to have a strategy for each competition, it does need to have some flexibility but at the moment it's to flexible.
Grasping at things.
Easy to drop Sussex through and through Brown & Beer. Hard to drop high paid incomers?
Need to take the Eddie Jones approach, pick the best, drop those that don't perform.

I thought the Davis/Wright team might change the attitude of the selection. Perhaps I was wrong?
Still time to turn it round. They both need to be bold and forget reputations.

I'm not blaming Salt, grandavefan. I actually agree with fraudster when he wrote : "With Salt, I reckon he needs to open with absolute freedom right now - he felt the pressure and he's pretty much a kid." Put him in first with Wright and give him license to take on the wide empty spaces during the power play. I'd drop Nash down to five and hope that from there he can give the innings the middle-order impetus in the final six or seven overs which, as fraudster again notes, is so seldom forthcoming with the current line-up.

And I'm certainly not criticising Salt for not being Jason Roy - although I am having a gentle and friendly little dig at the Sussex grandee who said he was!