RICHARD CLARKEAKA The Grumbler

Paul Hardcastle was not one of those unfamiliar names in the Sussex side for the Championship game with Worcestershire this week. In fact, I doubt he even plays cricket.However, he immediately came to mind when I perused the team-sheet from the game at Hove.Sussex had named the youngest line-up in Championship history with six teenagers, no capped players and a skipper barely into his twenties. Their average age was 19.6. Or n-n-n-n-nineteen point six, as Hardcastle’s 1985 smash hit would put it.That number referred to the average age of a com...