Sussex Sharks Team: Squad, Results, Stats & Schedule

Sussex County Cricket Club were founded in 1839 and are described by the club as the oldest professional sports club in the world. The men's limited-overs side uses the Sussex Sharks name.

The Sharks finished sixth in the 2026 South Group with three wins, nine losses, net run rate -1.168 and 10 official points. Three wins would normally earn 12 under the four-points system; the final table reflects a two-point competition adjustment tied to the club's financial-framework sanction.

Daniel Hughes led the batting with 438 runs and finished the campaign with an unbeaten 108 at Middlesex. Captain Tymal Mills took 16 wickets and Danny Briggs 13, while James Coles contributed 157 runs and five wickets.

Sussex won the Twenty20 Cup in 2009 and were runners-up in 2018. Adding the 2024 semi-final run to the club's five previously documented appearances gives six Finals Day appearances through 2024.

A win was worth four points in the 2026 group stage, so three victories generated 12 raw points. The final ECB table shows 10 because Sussex carried a two-point competition adjustment linked to its Exceptional Funding Framework Agreement.

Sussex's own financial FAQ says the deduction was a regulatory consequence of exceptional support and financial-sustainability controls, not a finding of misuse of funds. The page therefore preserves both numbers instead of changing a match result to make the table add up.

The 2026 format placed Sussex with five South Group opponents for ten home-and-away matches, then added two crossover fixtures against counties from other groups. Leicestershire at Hove and Warwickshire at Edgbaston were those two scheduled crossovers.

Both results count in Sussex's 12-match group record and table points. Calling them friendlies or excluding them because the opponents came from other groups would understate the official campaign.

No. The 27 names reproduce the current all-format men's directory, while each T20 match used a smaller named squad and XI. The Leicestershire preview, for example, named 14 players and recorded Lions call-ups and injuries affecting availability.

Directory membership proves club status, not competition appearance. Keeping that boundary avoids assigning T20 participation to players who were injured, selected elsewhere or used only in another format.

Against Hampshire, Sussex reached 67/0 after 5.5 overs but slid to 122/9 before being dismissed for 144. The strong powerplay did not survive the middle overs, turning a reachable 174 into a 29-run defeat.

At Middlesex, Daniel Hughes batted through for 108 not out and shared a county-record T20 stand of 169 with Jack Leaning. Sussex reached 213/3 and won by 18 runs: one set batter plus a sustained partnership converted the start that had disappeared at Southampton.

Both names are correct at different dates. Farbrace remained men's head coach through 31 October 2026 and moves to Director of Cricket on 1 November; Walker becomes men's head coach from that same date ahead of 2027.

The 2026 Blast record therefore belongs to Farbrace's coaching term. Silently replacing him with the incoming coach would rewrite the completed season, while omitting Walker would make the future leadership information stale.