Home Grounds used:
The Saffrons, Eastbourne; County Ground, Hove; Cricket Field Road Ground, Horsham; Haywards Heath Cricket Club Ground; East Grinstead Sports Club Ground; Horntye Park, Hastings; Middleton Sports Club Ground, Middleton-on-Sea

Away Grounds visited:
County Ground, Taunton; Anglo-American Playing Fields, Saffron Walden; Abbotsholme School Ground, Rocester; Clifton Park Ground, York; Denis Compton Oval, Shenley; Royal Air Force Sports Ground, Uxbridge; The Foster's Oval, Kennington; St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury; Barnt Green Cricket Club Ground; Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells; Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Second XI playing record:
P 23     W 10     D 7     L 6

Click on this link for the season's Second XI scorecards and results

37 players appeared in Second XI matches for Sussex in 1997:
RSG Anderson; JJ Bates; CJ Batt; JDP Bowden; GRA Campbell; JR Carpenter; JD Chaplin; AD Edwards; K Greenfield; RG Halsall; JRC Hamblin; GR Haywood; PG Hudson; S Humphries; RN Jackson; AJ Jones; SJ Jurgensen; RJ Kirtley; NJ Lenham; JD Lewry; LW Marshall; RSC Martin-Jenkins; CM Mole; K Newell; M Newell; MJ O'Sullivan; MTE Peirce; NC Phillips; BEA Preece; MJ Prior; JP Pyemont; TA Radford; RK Rao; S Simmonds; MR Strong; MJ Thursfield; MH Yardy.