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| Venue | Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood on 5th, 6th, 7th June 1954 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sussex won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Points | Middlesex 0; Sussex 4 |
| Umpires | F Chester, A Skelding |
| Close of play day 1 | Sussex (1) 263/8 (Parks 92*, Marlar 16*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Sussex (2) 136/4 (Parks 29*, Suttle 5*) |
| Sussex first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *DS Sheppard | c LH Compton b DCS Compton | 45 | |||||
| DV Smith | lbw b Warr | 1 | |||||
| GHG Doggart | c Warr b Moss | 43 | |||||
| G Cox | b Young | 4 | |||||
| JM Parks | not out | 92 | |||||
| KG Suttle | run out | 49 | |||||
| ASM Oakman | c Moss b Young | 3 | |||||
| AE James | c Moss b Warr | 0 | |||||
| NI Thomson | c LH Compton b Warr | 2 | |||||
| RG Marlar | not out | 16 | |||||
| +RT Webb | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 b, 1 nb, 1 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 90 overs) | 263 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-12, 2-72, 3-81, 4-110, 5-189, 6-194, 7-199, 8-222 | |||||||
| Middlesex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Moss | 21 | 4 | 73 | 1 | - | - | |
| Warr | 19 | 5 | 50 | 3 | - | - | |
| Robins | 2 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | - | |
| Young | 22 | 7 | 43 | 2 | - | - | |
| DCS Compton | 19 | 4 | 59 | 1 | - | - | |
| Titmus | 7 | 4 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Middlesex first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JDB Robertson | c Smith b Thomson | 21 | |||||
| SM Brown | c Sheppard b Thomson | 3 | |||||
| *WJ Edrich | c Smith b Thomson | 1 | |||||
| DCS Compton | not out | 72 | |||||
| D Bennett | c Doggart b Marlar | 6 | |||||
| FJ Titmus | run out | 14 | |||||
| RVC Robins | b Oakman | 8 | |||||
| +LH Compton | run out | 1 | |||||
| JJ Warr | c Doggart b Marlar | 10 | |||||
| JA Young | c Parks b Marlar | 0 | |||||
| AE Moss | run out | 2 | |||||
| Extras | (2 b, 3 lb, 1 w) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 67.3 overs) | 144 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-8, 2-18, 3-29, 4-66, 5-84, 6-96, 7-97, 8-138, 9-138, 10-144 (67.3 ov) | |||||||
| Sussex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Thomson | 15 | 7 | 27 | 3 | - | - | |
| James | 20 | 8 | 36 | 0 | - | - | |
| Oakman | 16 | 2 | 40 | 1 | - | - | |
| Marlar | 16.3 | 2 | 35 | 3 | - | - | |
| Sussex second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *DS Sheppard | c Edrich b Young | 65 | |||||
| DV Smith | b Titmus | 14 | |||||
| GHG Doggart | b Titmus | 0 | |||||
| G Cox | c DCS Compton b Titmus | 15 | |||||
| JM Parks | not out | 29 | |||||
| KG Suttle | not out | 5 | |||||
| ASM Oakman | did not bat | ||||||
| AE James | did not bat | ||||||
| NI Thomson | did not bat | ||||||
| RG Marlar | did not bat | ||||||
| +RT Webb | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 3 lb) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 53 overs) | 136 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-38, 2-38, 3-80, 4-114 | |||||||
| Middlesex bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Moss | 5 | 1 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Warr | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | - | - | |
| Young | 21 | 5 | 61 | 1 | - | - | |
| DCS Compton | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | - | - | |
| Titmus | 22 | 3 | 52 | 3 | - | - | |