{"id":669987,"date":"2026-07-02T15:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/669987\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:15:21","slug":"tom-clark-sussex-batter-agrees-new-one-year-contract-at-hove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/669987\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Clark: Sussex batter agrees new one-year contract at Hove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clark&#8217;s decision to stay, for a year at least, comes 24 hours after it was confirmed Sussex and England Lions bowler Henry Crocombe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cqj19pnxwe5o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">would be joining Surrey<\/a> for the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His was the first player departure to be announced since Sussex&#8217;s financial problems were revealed in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club&#8217;s books are under strict control by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) following losses of \u00a31.3m in 2025, including operating under a salary cap for the next three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were also given points deductions in the County Championship, T20 Blast and One-Day Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To get a grip on their finances, Sussex are facing a significant cut to their playing budget at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Outgoing head coach Paul Farbrace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c1eyn0l2wgdo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently told BBC Radio Sussex<\/a> the club had made offers to some out-of-contract players, but added that eight unnamed high earners had been told they would not receive new deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clark&#8217;s decision to stay, for a year at least, comes 24 hours after it was confirmed Sussex and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-669987","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\/669987","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=669987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}