Sussex set for final match of the season at Northamptonshire

Sussex bring the curtain down on their 2014 campaign this week as they take on Northamptonshire in the LV=County Championship.
By The Newsroom
Published 22nd Sep 2014, 18:14 BST
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After victories over both Lancashire and Nottinghamshire, Sussex are finishing the season strongly and have moved into fourth position in the Division 1 table.

A win over already-relegated Northamptonshire tomorrow (10.30am) could hand them second place in the standings behind champions Yorkshire, depending on Warwickshire’s result against Durham.

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Skipper Ed Joyce is currently 77 runs behind Yorkshire’s Adam Lyth in the race to finish top run-scorer in the Championship, whilst Steve Magoffin tops the wicket-takers’ list with 67 scalps this season, three ahead of Jack Brooks.

Chris Jordan is unavailable for the final fixture of the season at the request of England so left-arm seamer Chris Liddle comes into the squad of 13 for the match, with Sussex still missing injured quartet James Anyon, Rory Hamilton-Brown, Matthew Hobden and Matt Prior.

The Sussex squad is as follows: WAT Beer, BC Brown (wkt), C Cachopa, LJ Hatchett, EC Joyce (capt), J Lewis, CJ Liddle, SJ Magoffin, CD Nash, LWP Wells, LJ Wright, MH Yardy, SAA Zaidi.

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