Paul Edwards reports from a sunny Eastbourne where Sussex welcome Essex in the Royal London One-Day Cup

Essex’s cricketers arrived at Eastbourne last Sunday morning with high hopes of qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Royal London Cup. Those from Sussex, by contrast, knew their own chances were merely arithmetical. Many of the rest of us turned up praying simply that the Saffrons would again exercise its rich magic.
At just before six o’clock Ryan ten Doeschate clipped Ollie Robinson to the backward square-leg boundary to seal a four-wicket win and everything became as cl...