Sussex Sharks v Warwickshire Bears 27/07/09

Following the disappointment of Sussex's abject performance against Hampshire in the Friends Provident Trophy Final on Saturday, there was the chance to make a quick amends two days later with the visit of Warwickshire Bears in the Twenty20 Quarter Finals. The winners would progress to finals day at Edgbaston, and there was added spice from a Barmy Army point of view with Steffan Piolet, with one Hamsters appearance to his name, lining up for the Bears
Wright enjoys a few pre-game beers in Wetherspoons Turbo shandys were the order of the day
The new Match of the Day Itbox game has no restrictions on names Oaf tucks into some Grenadilla, not realising quite how sour it is going to be
He now realises how sour it is Sussex go through their vigorous warm ups
Valder put himself into pole position for fruit of the season with this jelly nut Wright cracks open some more fruit
This singer performed some interesting opera tracks The jelly nut looked like a bad purchase, as only a pen knife was available to open it, which proved near on impossible
McCarthy relaxes with a pint of Old English Potter was soon told off for opening the bin too loudly by a steward, which thus resulted in us leaving our rubbish everywhere
The Twenty20 trophy was on display for all to see Ashley Giles talks to Charles Coalvile
Not even too men are able to crack the nut of jelly Piolet warms up ahead of the game
Murray Goodwin and Luke Wright come out to open for Sussex Incredibly, Boyd Rankin's glasses managed to fly off his head and straight into the flightpath of a ball he was returning to the wicket, thus breaking
This snail was enjoying the action Tim Ambrose was making his return to the County Ground in the colours of the Bears
Rankin doesn't appear to have recovered yet from the breakage of his glasses Some progress is made on the jelly fruit
Dwayne Smith is soon dismissed This headline in The Argus was looking quite ironic
Sussex remain on 122-7 The jelly nut is cracked, revealing that a coconut type object was inside
The mess that the jelly nut had created Chris Nash does a fine job in the field
Sussex somehow appear to be edging their way to victory McCarthy balances the jelly nut on his head for the majority of the second innings
The snail was making his move as he could sense a Sussex victory Another wicket falls for the Sharks
Piolet makes his way into bat The game ends, and Sussex march onto Edgbaston for Twenty20 finals day

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