Bears' win over Sussex underlined the unique glory of County Championship cricket
25.08.26, 13:00 Updated 25.08.26, 08:30
Brian Halford
Fifty-over cricket is a great format. Twenty20 can throw up exciting finishes. For those of a certain age, the Benson & Hedges Cup (55 overs) and Gillette Cup/Nat West Trophy (60 overs) generated some thrillers. But nothing in the white-ball genre can match the slow-burning, escalating tension and excitement of a red-ball game that fascinates for four days before rising to a wonderful, all-results-possible climax late on the fourth.
Such was Warwickshire’s one-wicket victory over Sussex at Edgbaston last week. It was a match, not just a finish, that will live long in the memory and Bears head coach Ian Westwood reckons that sort of incredible denouement is unique not just in cricket but in all sport.
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