'However much money you possess, you can’t buy that sort of team spirit'

For once, though, Farby didn’t have to say a word. The tears that still glistened on his ruddy cheeks a full hour after the 197-run win over Hampshire, that would earn Sussex an outstanding third place in the County Championship, were eloquent enough.

Did that stop him? Of course it didn’t. As usual, Farby proceeded to give roughly a dozen good answers to every question. The difference this time, though, was the obvious emotion in his voice. And in his eyes.