Championship v Gloucestershire (Hove) Sat 13-Tue 16 August

Make that 39.

Michael Klinger - best overseas signing in county cricket since Mushtaq? Discuss.

Only possible current rival : Wayne Madsen?

Sussex cricket.

No, he's not, he's called just about anyone we play against these days. We've lost that winning feeling, now it's gone, gone, gone.

There'll come a time when Sussex will be great again. It won't be soon and most posters won't be alive to enjoy it, but it will happen.

Probably, as the breed is dying out since the great days of Marsha, Greenidge, Imran, Richards.....

Klinger played a really superb captain's innings against his normal attacking inclinations to foster first Mustard, then Taylor and later Miles.

 Judging from the Kent experience - because I'd say Sussex are now exactly where Kent were circa 2010 - it may take six or seven seasons before the  youngsters reach maturity and the side  becomes competitive again, and I hope I will still be alive.

By then Joyce, Magoffin and Nash will have retired. Wright will be 37/38 and may or may not still be here and Jordan will be 34/35, so should have finished his international career and be available full-time as a mature all-rounder.

The senior batsmen should be Wells,  Brown, Finch, Machan, Salt and Christian Davis and the bowling attack should be led by Archer, Whittingham and Garton.

So the nucleus is there...

But we don't have to go the Kent route and wait six or seven years. The Leicstershire model is actually more attractive and makes better sense, both on and off the field. Say goodbye and than you to the  'Zacster' (as I see he styles himself on Twitter) and recruit someone young and dynamic like Wasim Khan (preferably exactly like Wasim Khan by persuading him to come to Hove on an increased  salary); a young overseas coach who won't accept failure like Andrew McDonald (or Jason Gillespie); a no-nonsense tough Aussie/Saffer captain with a burning desire to be a winner like Cosgrove (or Klinger or Madsen) and a bunch of experienced county pros out of sorts at their present counties and with a point to prove (like Horton, Dexter, Pettini, Shreck) who can also act as unofficial coaches and mentors to our rising stars such as Salt, Garton, Whittingham and Davis...

The question is this - does the 'Mayster' have the guts/desire/motivation/vision  to implement the radical overhaul required to turn Sussex from  also-rans  too ready to accept mediocrity back into a side of strivers and winners?