{"id":639809,"date":"2026-06-15T12:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639809\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:28:08","slug":"sussex-eight-players-told-to-leave-as-farbrace-considers-his-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639809\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussex: Eight players told to leave as Farbrace considers his future"},"content":{"rendered":"

County Championship leaders Sussex have told eight players they will not be offered contracts at the end of the season as they aim to regain control of their finances.<\/p>\n

However, head coach Paul Farbrace may stay at the club in a part-time director of cricket role, having earlier said he would be leaving Hove<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I’d rather keep players rather than me stay on a full-time basis,” Farbrace told BBC Radio Sussex.<\/p>\n

“The plan would be for me to work two days a week in the winter and three days in the summer, supporting the new head coach.”<\/p>\n

Sussex’s finances are under strict control by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), following losses of \u00a31.3m in 2025<\/a>, including a salary cap for the next three years.<\/p>\n

They were also given a 12-point deduction in the County Championship for “sustained operating losses”, although they have since risen to the top of Division One in spite of the penalty.<\/p>\n

They are facing a significant cut to their playing budget at the end of the season, and multiple players have deals expiring this summer.<\/p>\n

Those include new England squad member Henry Crocombe, wicketkeeper and club captain John Simpson, batter Tom Clark, all-rounder Fynn Hudson-Prentice, bowler Danny Lamb and Scotland international Charlie Tear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"County Championship leaders Sussex have told eight players they will not be offered contracts at the end of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-639809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}