JACK Brooks would love to end the season with at least 65 LV= County Championship wickets.

The Yorkshire seamer has enjoyed another successful summer after last year's career-best haul of 68 in the first of back-to-back title-winning campaigns.

And although he has not given up hope of bettering that tally and ending 2015 with 70 Championship victims, he accepts that might be a touch optimistic heading into tomorrow's final-round clash with Sussex at Headingley.

Brooks has also admitted his pride at contributing to Yorkshire's second successive four-day crown – as well as praising his team-mates' resilience to recover from defeat at Middlesex and then early strife at Hampshire to win the latter fixture last week.

The 31-year-old leading wicket-taker said: "I need 11 wickets for 70 but I'd be happy with 65 and a win against Sussex. That would be perfect.

"It's not going to be an easy game but I'm hopeful we can get the right result.

"It's nice to back last season up and contribute to a Championship win again, which is the main thing.

"To have such a decent haul in a successful season – we've got such a strong unit and anyone can come in and make a difference.

"To be a cog in that machine that keeps on turning round and performing, it makes me proud.

"We spent a lot of time in the dirt at Lord's, so to go and face a team that were really hungry and needed to try and win to stay up, we knew it was going to be a tough game.

"Hampshire battered us for the first day and a half. We tried everything to try and take wickets on a tough pitch but they kept batting and batting.

"To chase 300 on the last day, even though it wasn't a last-day pitch with only a day and a half's play on it, it took a really good effort."

Brooks, not involved in the ECB's pre-Christmas Performance Programme or Lions squads, will rest up in the early part of the winter before looking into a trip abroad to play some cricket ahead of 2016.