Has county cricket been hit over the boundary at Hastings?

It is well known that East Sussex County Council considers that East Sussex terminates at Pevensey Marshes and that anything east of there is off the edge of the county.

Apparently Sussex County Cricket Club [SCCC] shares this view. The Observer reports its CEO Rob Andrew stating how keen the club is to play in ’the east of the county’. Sadly the ensuing quotes reveal that this ‘east’ ends at Eastbourne! Therefore his aim of ’taking county cricket to a wider audience’ excludes Hastings (once the home of an internationally famous cricket ground) and the (considerable) rest of East Sussex. No wonder cricket is a declining sport when our county club cannot even recognise that part of their area even exists.