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In the late 1970's through to the 1980s Mr Mrs John Hansford had five sons all playing in local cricket at Burgess Hill. Four of the boys - Julian, Robert, Alan and Adrian played County representative cricket at school boy level and Alan went on to play for Sussex CCC. The family timetable was only eased as the twins - Alan and Adrian - played in the same match. For many years the family holiday was taken watching the boys play.
Sussex has a long history of brothers playing cricket, indeed the following come immediately to mind. ( Apologies to those forgotten).

BUSS, MICHAEL BUSS, TONY	GILLIGAN, A.E.R. GILLIGAN, HAROLD GILLIGAN, F.W. played for EssexCCC	GREIG, IAN GRIEG, TONY
LANGRIDGE, JAMES LANGRIDGE, JOHN	LILLYWHITE,JAMES LIILYWHITE, JOHN LILLYWHITE, FRED more famous as a cricket statistician and, of course, there was their famous cousin LILLYWHITE, JAMES	LUCAS, C.J. LUCAS F.M. LUCAS, P
OAKES, CHARLIE OAKES,JACK	WELLS, ALAN WELLS, COLIN

In September,1999 nominations were received from Clubs and schools for County trials. It was noticeable at this stage that there were over 20 pairs of brothers and , in one family, three brothers sought places in representative sides.
As a result of the winter programme 15 pairs of brothers will be playing in County and District cricket. We wish them well and hope that their parents survive the trauma and travel arrangements which our summer game throws up.Sadly, however, there are some families in which only one son was successful and the parents have the problem of satisfying the interests of both children.
The following brothers will be playing in representative cricket this season -2000

JOSEPH ADAMS U13 COUNTY SAM ADAMS U14 COUNTY	HARRY BIRMINGHAM U15 COUNTY JACK BIRMINGHAM U12 DISTRICT	ISAAC BURROWS U12 DISTRICT JOSHUA BURROWS UNDER 13 DISTRICT
EDWARD CLARK U12 DISTRICT JOSEPH CLARK U10 COUNTY	MATTHEW CRUMP U11 DISTRICT THOMAS CRUMP UNDER 11 DISTRICT	JOE GATTING U12 COUNTY OLIVER GATTING U10 COUNTY
RORY MCCANN U15 COUNTY TODD MCCANN U12 COUNTY	ANDREW MORGAN U12 DISTRICT PETER MORGAN U 14 COUNTY	EDWARD MURRILLS U12 COUNTY WILIAM MURRILLS U13 COUNTY
BEN NEWSOME U13 DISTRICT JOEL NEWSOME U11 COUNTY	ADRIAN THRORNELY U10 COUNTY MICHAEL THORNELY U12 COUNTY	LUKE TOMSETT U11 COUNTY MARK TOMSETT U13 COUNTY
EDWARD TOWNER U11 DISTRICT PETER TOWNER U15 COUNTY	JAMES WALKER U13 COUNTY WILLIAM WALKER U10 COUNTY	ROBERT WILLIAMSON U13 DISTRICT THOMAS WILLIAMSON U11 DISTRICT

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