It's not just Finals Day that has Sussex star Evans buzzing...

The 30-year-old admits it’s only now, at his third county, that he feels he is finally doing his talent justice after moving up the order into the top three. And off the field he is just as content. It’s been three weeks since Sussex reached Vitality Blast Finals Day and as Evans is not involved in the county’s bid for promotion in the Specsavers County Championship he has had some time to devote to organising his other big day this year – his marriage to partner Verity in December. “We actually met just before Finals Day when I was at Warwickshire and we won in 2014 so I have taken my time to get around to getting married!” he said. “She came to watch that day and I had a good game so she probably thought I was something I’m not! Partners and wives go through a lot. I will come home grumpy sometimes and other days I’ll be ecstatic. But Verity is so supportive and she loves sport. She’s quite insightful too – she will watch me play and later she’ll say ‘why did you play that shot?’ “But I would definitely say I’m the happiest I’ve ever been at the moment. People say the happier you are the better you play and hopefully Finals Day will be another brilliant experience for me and the team.” No one played a bigger part than Evans in getting Sussex back to Edgbaston for the first time since they beat this Saturday’s semi-final opponents Somerset to lift the trophy for the only time in 2009. Head Coach Jason Gillespie backed a hunch that Evans offered a bit more than the middle-order finisher’s role he’d previously had at Sussex and during his Warwickshire days. Dizzy keeps us calm, says Blast skipper Not just a Finals Day spectator this year Will lucky socks play a part? Only Aaron Finch and former Warwickshire team-mate Ian Bell scored more than his 554 runs at an average of 79.14 during the group stages and he was one of only three batsmen to score six half-centuries. There are only two survivors from the 2009 team – leg-spinner Will Beer and opening batsman Luke Wright – in Saturday’ squad but Sussex have plenty of big-match experience. The bookies can’t separate them or Somerset as joint 11/4 favourites and the winner of their semi could well be the team who goes on to lift the trophy. Evans draws some parallels with the Warwickshire team he helped to victory in 2014. “Overall we’re probably a much younger side but we do have that big-match experience,” he added. “Chris Jordan, Luke Wright and Danny Briggs have all played international cricket and Jofra Archer loves the big stage. Then there are guys like Will Beer, who’s played more T20 games for Sussex than anyone else, in the squad. At times during the group we’ve needed our star performers to produce for us and they have usually delivered and hopefully that will be the case again on Saturday.”