SUSSEX coach Peter Moores believes his side are capable of challenging for a second successive National League title.

The county, promoted as second division winners last season, play their opening games in the top flight against Gloucestershire and Leicestershire, both away, over the Bank Holiday weekend.

And Moores says they have nothing to fear among their first division opponents.

"If we can get on a winning roll straightaway and keep doing the things that have made us a good one-day side I don't think there is any team we should be worrying about," he said.

"There are some good teams in the first division. But last season we beat Lancashire and Somerset away and were in control of the Super Cup semi-final against Gloucestershire and then threw the initiative back at them.

"There is always room for improvement, but we have a formula for doing well in one-day cricket now and if we stick to that then I think we can do very well again.

"We have a side that is tailor-made to play aggressive, competitive cricket."

Sussex have named the same 13-man squad which took the county into the quarter-finals of the Benson and Hedges Cup with back-to-back wins over Hampshire and Essex last weekend.

Their next opponents will be Gloucestershire whom they meet in tomorrow's opener at Bristol when Norwich Union begin their sponsorship of the National League.

From there the county travel to Grace Road to take on Leicestershire on Monday.

Sussex are likely to field the team which beat Essex at Chelmsford on Monday which means Jason Lewry again getting the vote ahead of Mark Robinson as James Kirtley's new- ball partner.

Lewry played only two one-day matches last season, but he figured in all three B&H group games.

"Jason has become more consistent in one-day cricket and he's now reaching the standards that are required.

"It was a difficult decision to leave Robbo out of last weekend's games, but it's up to the guys who are in the team at the moment to keep producing the goods so they stay there."

Sussex (probable): Montgomerie, House, Adams, Bevan, Cottey, Carpenter, Martin-Jenkins, Rashid, Wilton, Lewry, Kirtley.

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