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Adults: £14
Over 65s: £7
Under 16s: Free

Tickets will be available on a daily basis and may be purchased from the North or Grace Gates. Gates open at 10am for an 11am start.

MCC v Champion County - match photos

Photos: Pre Match | Sussex 1st innings | MCC 1st innings

MCC team photo, prior to the match against Sussex
The MCC team pose for their pre-match photo in the Coronation Garden
MCC captain, Ed Joyce and Sussex skipper Chris Adams at the toss
MCC captain, Ed Joyce tosses the coin with Sussex skipper Chris Adams

MCC Secretary and Chief Executive, Keith Bradshaw rings the bell to open the season
MCC Secretary and Chief Executive, Keith Bradshaw, rings the five-minute bell to open the first match of the new season
Chris Nash and Carl Hopkinson are the first batsmen to walk through the Long Room in 2008
Sussex batsmen Carl Hopkinson and Chris Nash are the first batsmen to walk out through the famous Long Room in 2008

Match action

Sussex first innings: 171 all out (Kirby 4-39)

Steven Kirby made it a busy day for the umpire's finger
Steven Kirby's nippy bowling made it a busy day for the umpire's finger
Ravi Bopara in action, bowling for MCC
Ravi Bopara in action, bowling for MCC - he bowled well, without reward

Steven Kirby celebrates another wicket
Kirby celebrates another wicket with a leaping celebration...
Steven Kirby celebrates another wicket
...the Gloucestershire bowler had four first innings victims

MCC first innings: 205-9 (Shah 72; Harris 4-36)

Shah salutes the first fifty of the new season - he went on to score 72
Feeling at home: Middlesex and England's Owais Shah salutes a half-century
James Foster dabs at a Robert Martin-Jenkins delivery... and watches it snared in the slips
James Foster fences at one... and watches it caught behind at slip

MCC UCCE player Arun Harinath played an innings belying his youth
MCC University student Arun Harinath ducks under a quicker ball
Harinath was eventually out for 33, caught behind by wicketkeeper Matt Prior off the bowling of Will Beer
The youngster scored 33 before he was caught by Matt Prior off Will Beer's bowling