Events News
Thursday 10/7/08, PALMERS 20/20 MATCH at HOVE RECREATION GROUND.
Friday 11th July, SUSSEX v MIDDLETON CC 20/20 MATCH at Middleton CC.
Friday 11th July, SUSSEX v MIDDLETON CC 20/20 MATCH at Middleton CC.
Enjoy lunch in a pitchside marquee before watching the Sussex stars take on Middleton at their beautiful ground.
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Sunday 13th July, CORPORATE 6-A-SIDE DAY at HORSHAM CC
Play amongst the county champions at the fabulous first class Horsham ground. Each team will be assigned a Sussex pro - will you get Mushy, Matt Prior or Luke Wright?
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Thursday 17th July, DINNER at the OLD FORGE, STORRINGTON.
Join Robin and guests for a gourmet dinner, with wines to match, cooked by Clive Roberts in his fabulous and renowned Storrington restaurant.
Sunday 20th July, RMJ BENEFIT MATCH at ARUNDEL: Sussex v Somerset Pro 40
Monday 21st July, RDF GOLF DAY at EAST BRIGHTON GC. *SOLD OUT*
Testimonials
Graeme Fowler
If I knew then what I know now?. That is probably the most stupid phrase anyone can ever say. At the time we all make decisions based on the current facts, our personal information and experience. No one ,in my experience makes a bad decision on purpose.However, looking back is not always a pointless exercise. Memories are one of our most precious gifts that we carry with us. Often, in a senior moment I find myself completely absorbed in my own little world in a previous decade. More?
Peter Moores
The first time I saw the real talent of RMJ was from the non strikers end as he proceeded to deposit Anil Kumble into the deck chairs for a quite enormous six. What made the shot even more remarkable was that he did it from the crease with what appeared effortless ease. The game was Sussex v Northants in 1995 when RMJ was still at university and just breaking into the game. At the time I didn?t realise that RMJ was going to have such an impact on his native County but I did realise he had a rare talent for hitting a cricket ball. Robin went on to make his first fifty for Sussex that day and as he now has close to six thousand runs and three hundred wickets and has been a key player in Sussex?s rise over the last decade.More?Andrew Strauss
My first memory of "Tucker" came shortly after I arrived at Radley College as an awkward, spotty and totally overawed 13 year old. Everywhere I looked, I saw fully grown adolescent men, whose voices had broken, who were intimidating beyond imagination to someone who looked closer to 11 than a teenager.In those first days of school, you had to sink or swim on your own. The older pupils tended to only talk to the new boys when they needed something doing, so it was not surprising that I was just beginning to run for cover when this giant beanpole from the year above approached me. "Hello there, I'm Robin, How have your first few weeks been? I hear you play cricket." I was flabbergasted that he was actually trying to make conversation with me, and that he was actually being kind of nice.More?
Jonathan Agnew
I feel as if I have followed every inch of Robin's path through professional cricket. This is not necessarily due to having sat for many hours in the sun in one of Hove's inviting deck chairs, or anywhere else for that matter: I reckon I have only seen Robin in action a handful of times. No, there has been no need for that because throughout Robin's career, I have been sharing a commentary box with his Dad, Christopher.Regular listeners to Test Match Special will be all too aware of a certain haplessness that dogs CMJ's attempts at anything technical. This extends, even, to operating teletext which, thankfully, after years of muttering and stamping feet at back of the box, Christopher has finally mastered. He can now pull up the latest Sussex score on Ceefax while commentating at Lord?s at the same time! No mean feat. And there it will stay all day, on its own separate screen, accompanied either by sighs of satisfaction or a short burst of noisy disapproval if Robin has had his stumps splattered.More?
