Sussex Cricket Museum

In the summer of 2023, Bharat Patel toured England as part of the Hollywood Cricket Team (HCC), playing at some of the most famous venues in cricket. Although Bharat lives near Boston and plays usually for Boston Gymkhana, he was able to tour with the Hollywood club that was founded by ex-Sussex and England star, Sir Aubrey Smith. Here Bharat talks about touring with HCC and playing in the Massach...

Andy Dalby-Welsh had just begun a universtiy course at the age of just twenty when he developed a rare eye condition which left him registered blind. He began to play blind cricket for Sussex and later for England, taking part in the Blind World Cup held in India. Here he describes how he began to play blind cricket and how he came to play in a World Cup semi-final against Pakistan.

Regina Suddahazai Khan, who plays for Sussex Women and Italy, talks to Tymal Mills, one of the game's quickest bowlers, with experience of tournaments in India, Australia and Pakistan.

Adrian Harms in conversation with Roger Packham about the early days of the Sussex County Cricket Club featuring the foundation in 1839, the Brunswick Ground and the Lillywhite family.

Don Bradman said that the heart and soul of cricket resides in village cricket. In this podcast the curator of Sussex Cricket Museum, Keith Ridge,  visits Newick Cricket Club, a  village club with long standing traditions that is located in what was the cradle of the game - the Wealden villages of Sussex and Kent.

The change in bowling style from underarm to round, and then overarm bowling, is told by Roger Packham in conversation with Adrian Harms, BBC Radio Sussex and Surrey Sports Reporter.

In part two of the story of James Dean, Adrian Harms talks to the author of James Dean, Jason Moore, about his recent book. In this episode, Jason and Roger Packham, cricket historian, talk to Adrian Harms, BBC News and Sport reporter, about Dean's involvement with various England teams, his eventual retirement, becoming a landlord of the Cricketers in Duncton, and give an assessment of where Dean...

Nadeem Yousef has the distinction of once being a record holder, with Maqsood Kundi, of the highest tenth-wicket stand in Pakistani First-Class cricket in 1981-82 whilst playing for the Muslim Commercial Bank. Following a thirteen year career in Pakistan Nadeem moved to the USA where he played for Santa Barbara CC for nine years. He currently plays for the Hollywood Golden Oldies and Yorkshire Cou...

Regina Suddahazai Khan, has played county cricket for Sussex girls’ teams since she was eleven, and recently made her debut for Italy at the first ever women's T10 tournament, held at the Europa Sports Complex in Gibraltar. The tournament, involving national teams from Gibraltar, Italy, Sweden and the Netherlands, was the first ever televised women’s cricket event in Europe under lights. Regina ha...

Adrian Harms, BBC Sussex Cricket correspondent, discusses with author Roger Packham, the Sussex Cricket Museum's exhibition on Sir Aubrey Smith, focusing on the newly restored painting of Sir Aubrey.

Huw Turberville, editor of the Cricketer Magazine and author of 'The Toughest Tour: The Ashes Away Series since the War'and 'The Cricketer's Anthology of the Ashes' talks to Sussex Cricket Museum curator, Keith Ridge, about his visits to the County Ground.

John Barclay, captain of Sussex 1979-1986, discusses Sussex's Championship winning season of 2003, with Chris Adams, captain of that winnning side and the two further triumphs in 2006 and 2007.

Jason Moore, author of a new book on the cricketer James Dean, talks to Adrian Harms, BBC Radio Sussex commentator, on James Dean and Sussex cricket in the early c19th. Along the way he mentions the Duncton cricket team, the Broadbridge brothers and the revolution in bowling.

Here Adrian Harms, BBC Radio Sussex commentator, talks about the Sussex Cricket Museum on air, during his commentary of Sussex v Glamorgan. He describes how his visit to the Museum has changed his attitude to museums.

Jon Filby, Chair of Sussex Cricket  Museum and Keith Ridge, curator of Sussex Cricket Museum, in conversation with Les Lenham on his early years with Sussex. Les talks about the importance of hard work and luck, his first innings, and what it was like to face the Surrey attack in the 1950s.

Les Lenham, a member of the winning Sussex team in the first ever Gillette One Day Final in 1963, speaks to Museum Curator Keith Ridge and Chair of the Museum Trustees, Jon Filby, of his memories of that victorious day. He talks of Dexter's tactics, the drizzle and the dressing room celebrations.

Adrian Harmes, BBC Cricket correspondent, talking  with Jon Filby and Norman Epps about the sporting career of C.B. Fry, cricketer, footballer and athlete.

 Jon Filby, Chair of the Museum Trustees, takes BBC Radio Sussex commentator, Adrian Harms, on a tour of Sussex Cricket Museum, in the first of our Summer podcasts.