Kirtley’s time in Sussex has largely overseen the trials and tribulations of a younger crop of cricketers who, regardless of a confidence-wrecking begin, are lastly starting to fulfil their potential.
Younger expertise corresponding to Henry Crocombe, who can be from Eastbourne, is one instance.
The medium-fast bowler has been at Sussex since 2020 and endured the troublesome 2021 and 2022 seasons as a 19 and 20-year-old.
Two years on, he has made outstanding progress this season and performed a key half within the win over Gloucestershire, taking 4-22 of their second innings – a efficiency Kirtley known as “massively spectacular”.
“He is needed to wait and bide his time,” stated Kirtley.
“He is needed to work laborious and he is really had a possibility [in 2024] to develop and perceive his cricket versus main an assault at 19 years of age.
“It simply exhibits if we get the setting proper, we get the precise individuals, the precise assist, then these guys are going to flourish.”