{"id":38489,"date":"2026-02-03T02:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/sussex-given-points-deduction-and-salary-cap-after-financial-losses\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T02:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:23:56","slug":"sussex-given-points-deduction-and-salary-cap-after-financial-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/sussex-given-points-deduction-and-salary-cap-after-financial-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussex given points deduction and salary cap after financial losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sussex achieved an impressive fourth-place finish last year after achieving promotion to County Championship Division One in 2024, but failed to reach the knockout stage of the two white-ball competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head coach Paul Farbrace recently told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cr577gnqep9o\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">BBC Radio Sussex<\/a>: &#8220;There&#8217;s no point whinging about it, we&#8217;ve got to hold our hands up and say we&#8217;ve obviously made mistakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Therefore we&#8217;ve got to own it and deal with it. I chatted to the players, the coaching staff, the medical team &#8211; I&#8217;ve kept them up to date because it&#8217;s the right thing to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The financial framework agreed with the ECB will remain in place until 2029, and includes additional financial controls to ensure cricket operations are protected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They include enhanced governance, an independent review of the Board&#8217;s skills and effectiveness, and ECB observer rights at relevant committee meetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club has also been given a suspended \u00a3100,000 fine, which they will only have to pay if the conditions of the agreement are breached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West added: &#8220;These measures provide assurance of a clear, sustainable pathway back to long\u2011term financial stability, and the loan will be fully repaid, under the terms, from future funding streams due.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are extremely grateful for the ECB&#8217;s support as we work through this period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is the best possible way forward for the club, and while it has been a difficult few days for supporters, players and staff, we can now move forward positively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our focus has to be on building our own revenue streams and sustainable growth on and off the field, to ultimately create an environment in which the team can thrive in all formats of the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sussex start the new Championship season with an away game against promoted Leicestershire on 3 April before playing at home for the first time against Warwickshire a week later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cy8pzlkx2ygo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sussex achieved an impressive fourth-place finish last year after achieving promotion to County Championship Division One in 2024, but failed to reach the knockout stage of the two white-ball competitions. Head coach Paul Farbrace recently told BBC Radio Sussex: &#8220;There&#8217;s no point whinging about it, we&#8217;ve got to hold our hands up and say we&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38491,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38489\/revisions\/38491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}