FANS wore woolly hats and scarves for the day-night match this week between Sussex and Lancashire at Hove. The teams wore yellow and red instead of white.

It was an atmosphere more akin to football rather than a cricket match. But Sussex have to move with the times and many fans like the razzmatazz of the new-style game. Three thousand people attended the match, a good crowd in view of the cold night and all the recent wet weather. More will attend summer matches this year provided that the weather is half decent and by then watching evening cricket may have become a habit for many fans. The new regime at Hove seems determined to haul Sussex up from the bottom of the championship and the AXA Life League. Acompetitive start involving a win and a narrow defeat against highly-rated Lancashire indicates that Sussex Sharks will be a team to watch this season.

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