From Lillywhite to Crocombe. The history of Sussex hat-tricks

Not much, you might conclude. The cricket historian John Marshall tells us: “Lillywhite was a sturdy and striking little figure, only five feet four inches, with a broad face the shade of his bricks (he was a bricklayer) and invariably attired for the game in a tall black hat, black braces and a stiff collar and tie.”

There are more Lillywhites knocking around in Sussex cricket history than you can shake a stump at. But “Old Lilly,” or the “nonpareil” as he was known, was the most famous of them, and one of the founding fathers of roundarm bowling in the first half of the 19th century.