County Championship preview: James Coles on Sussex's prep after points deduction, Test aspirations and the £390k Hundred draft fee!
Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
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4.4 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Sussex all-rounder James Coles joins Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton to discuss his impressive white ball winter, Sussex's preparations for the County Championship season after the points deduction, his Test aspirations and that £390,000 Hundred draft fee! Plus, Nasser and Michael round-up the rest of the cricket news from around the world!
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, gone. |
| 0:02.7 | Garn. |
| 0:03.2 | He gets its fairy tale ending. |
| 0:06.0 | An impid way to go to a test match 100. |
| 0:09.5 | The London spirit of first time win is. |
| 0:12.2 | The most remarkable thing you'll probably ever see in cricket. |
| 0:15.9 | Six hundred and four and final test wicket that's due a ball. |
| 0:19.9 | It's ended who win the T20 World cup england's captain ben stokes while he is there |
| 0:26.2 | england have hope welcome to the sky sports cricket podcast i'm in charge this week athas text |
| 0:36.1 | me last night saying he couldn't be bothered to host anymore so i i'm in charge this week. Ather's text me last night saying he couldn't |
| 0:37.8 | be bothered to host anymore, so I'm in the chair. It's that time of year where we look ahead |
| 0:43.9 | to things, but also we look back actually because overnight, the Sheffield season in Australia |
| 0:50.5 | finished with a win, another win for South Australia. They've gone back to back and they |
| 0:55.7 | beat the Vicks, Victoria at the Junction Oval, so our mates, the Ballarat Boys, will be hugely |
| 1:01.1 | disappointed who we met in Melbourne on New Year's Eve and a time to look forward. Start of the |
| 1:07.2 | IPL, start of the PSL, but also we are in the week that the county championship |
| 1:12.9 | starts. And to look ahead to all things, English cricket summer, we have money bags, James Coles, |
| 1:20.2 | who got the big bid in the 100. We'll come on to that. But how have you been? How's pre-season gone? |
| 1:26.9 | Have you been wrapped up warm in this northerly breeze? |
| 1:30.0 | Hello. Yeah, firstly, thank you for having me. Yeah, no, it's been a good start so far. |
| 1:35.2 | We've had, weather's been kind to us down here in Hove. It's cracking flags today, which is nice. |
| 1:42.1 | Now, it's been good. I've played in two of the preseason games. They've gone well, |
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