Sussex will claim a cricketing first at the County Ground next Tuesday when they take on Yorkshire in an Academy match under lights.

Organisers believe it is the first junior day-night game to be staged in this country.

Academy director Keith Greenfield said: "We are delighted to be leading the way. We used to be a reactive county when new things came around. Now we are proactive.

"We are the first county to have permanent floodlights. Now we are putting on the first day-night game in English junior cricket. We are proud of that.

"Getting players used to playing under lights is an important part of our development programme. Day-night cricket is part of first-class cricket.

"The Academy players are so excited about being involved in the match they would rather forgo playing in a Second XI match at Trent Bridge, which is a Test ground.

"They will have fielding practice under lights before the big day to help them get used to it."

Greenfield will use the match to introduce the Quintec Coaching Analysis system for the youngsters.

It will allow him to digitally film the match and break down individual performances.

He said: "The first team have been using the system for a couple of years. But there's a guy called John Holden from John's Camping who is providing all the computer software for our youngsters.

"He heard about how it would help us and is giving it to us for free. It is a fantastic gesture. It will make a fundamental difference to players' development. I will give each player a CD after Tuesday so they can study their own performances.

"They will have a good practice window which shows how good each player can be and then compare it on screen to his play against Yorkshire. They can also have a window to compare with players like Tendulkar.

"The system is another example of Sussex leading the way. Coach Peter Moores wants to encourage the youngsters and with floodlight matches and utilising this system we can do that. Hopefully we will see the fruits of all this in our first team."

The match starts at 3.30pm.

Squad: Andrew Hodd (Horsham), Jeremy Green (Steyning), Conrad Mumby and Krishana Singh (Three Bridges), Stuart Collier, Andy Perry, Robert Wakeford (all Brighton and Hove), Oliver Rayner (Eastbourne), Richard Young (East Grinstead), Marc Gardner (St James's Montefiore, Ditchling), Joe Gatting (Preston Nomads), Chris Nash (Horsham).