Sussex County Cricket Club are to stage a memorial match for Umer Rashid and his brother Burhan.
A Sussex side will play Angus Fraser's Invitation XI under floodlights at Hove on Friday, September 13.
The Rashids drowned in a tragic accident on Sussex's pre-season tour of Grenada and the club felt a match was the best way of honouring their memory. Fraser, a former team-mate of Rashid's at Middlesex, is expected to field a strong side.
Proceeds will go towards the refurbishment of the main scoreboard at Hove which will be re-named after Umer. The balance of the funds raised will provide coaching on a yearly basis for spinners of the future.
Meanwhile, Sussex are expected to name an unchanged Championship side for their first four-day game at Hove since the end of April.
Kent are the visitors tomorrow (11am) and coach Peter Moores is happy to stay with the team which drew with Hampshire last week.
"The next six weeks are going to shape our season and we're looking forward to the challenge," he said. "We've got a C&G Trophy semi-final to look forward too and the job of consolidating our place in division one."
James Kirtley will see a specialist today about the hand he fractured on Saturday but early indications are that he will be out for 4-6 weeks. Mark Robinson will play for the seconds against Northamptonshire today.
Sussex (probable): Montgomerie, Goodwin, Adams, Yardy, Ambrose, Martin-Jenkins, Prior, Innes, Davis, Taylor, Lewry.
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