Sussex v Kent T20 Hove July 11

Jordan for Liddle?

Now why would you think that Moores would agree to release him? Everything that Moores, and Whitaker, have said suggests hat they believe a squad is necessary, largely because of the enervating wickets prepared for the congested India Test schedule, and the consequent risk of staleness and injury to the frontline bowlers, particularly Anderson and Broad. In those circumstances Jordan becomes a kind of touchstone: if he doesn't play in the Test it's because the selected bowlers are fit and effective, but he can't completely be discarded because he might be needed at almost any minute. And we all know how sapping those 4 overs and 75 minutes of fielding can be.

He'll be a first choice for the one day games following the Test series so that will take up all of August and into September. The earliest we might expect to get him back is the Lancashire game following the last One day International, or more likely the final two away fixtures.

Good news and thanks for it, Steve.

Your reporting is a beacon of light on a paper that has gone woefully downhill in recent years.

There's a pic of Monday's now infamous 'Don't right off the Greens just yet' headline here:

www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jul/09/local-newspapers-brighton

Am I right in thinking that such headlines are written by Newsquest subs at the company's offices in Southampton and so such cock-ups are not the fault of anyone at the GOSBTS end of the operation?

Looking at the table, miraculously considering results to date, wins over Kent and Glamorgan would put us right back in the mix. I know it is a big IF and even two wins would be followed by tougher games plus the need for another glam trip up but it seems amazing that a chance is still there at all.

Hi Borderman. Unfortunately the powers that be have now moved the whole subbing operation (except sport) to Weymouth so any mistakes are very much down to them! Expect more of them too I'm afraid

Indeed, s and f, indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus.

On edit: And I'd love to have some money on Robinson's horses if he can get that sort of trade out of Moores!

Arafat was Sussex's best batsman by a long, long way in the T20 game at Arundel and can hit a very long ball indeed. If Sussex are missing Joyce, Yardy and RHB there are gaping holes at the top of the order and if Wells plays, a pinch hitter at the other end could be just what is needed. Claydon, Stevens and Ball are the kind of journeymen trundlers he enjoys thrashing out of the park, so get him to the wicket in the power play, before Tredwell and Riley come on.

That's my theory,anyway!

ps: planning my first Friday night at Hove this season. I don't dislike T20, far from it; I've attended  two of Sussex's away games in the comp already this season. But I hate cricket under floodlights, I hate all those drunken buffoons in the crowd with their snaking towers of beer glasses and I hate driving home up the M23 in the dark at 10.30pm. So it had better be worth it!!!