LUKE WRIGHT is poised to complete a triple century.

He just hopes it comes leading Sussex out at Edgbaston tomorrow evening.

The Sharks skipper is on 298 career T20 matches for an array of teams going into Vitality Blast Finals Day.

Match 299 will come against Somerset in the second semi-final as either Worcestershire or Lancashire wait to see who they will meet.

Match 300 comes either in that final or when he takes up his place with Paktia in the new Afghanistan Premier League in October.

Wright, whose 298 matches include 135 appearances in the shortest format for Sussex Sharks, knows what he wants.

He told The Argus: “If I could lead out my team in a final in game 300, that would be up with everything I’ve done.

“That is always more important than any individual stats and accolades.

“Sometimes when I look around at some of the guys and they have played 20 games, you realise how much cricket it is.

“I’ve been lucky. I love it and hopefully I will have a lot more to come.”

Wright joined Sussex at the end of the 2003 season, a year in which they first sampled T20.

The qualification stage back then comprised just five matches.

This season, Sharks would have played 14 plus a quarter-final had all matches beaten the weather.

That rain plus a two-match lay-off with a back injury have left Wright just short of 300.

He has a few highlights from those 15 years of T20.

He said: “Getting a hundred for the Melbourne Stars against the Renegades in front of 89,000 at the MCG (in the Big Bash) was probably my best knock ever.

“I got 153 for Sussex at Chelmsford but it was a dead game and I didn’t feel the same.

“There was the World Cup as well.

“I suppose, with my timing and England, I was one of the first to be playing around the world and with all these different teams and franchises.

“For the last ten years I’ve been non-stop playing summers and then winters of Twenty20, which has been great.

“I’ll keep doing it as long as I can.

“There are more and more tournaments which keep popping up.

“When I first started, I was one of ten people trying to do it.

“It was new to get overseas players over here for T20.

“Now, there’s an Emirates League near Christmas that there are 450 players trying to get into.

“It is very different these days.”

Wright called a temporary halt last winter when pulled out of his Big Bash season a game early and then sat out the Pakistan Super League.

But that does not mean his globetrotting days are over.

Come October 5, he will be in the same Afghan outfit as county colleague Chris Jordan with Rashid Khan, Laurie Evans and Tymal Mills also signed up for the tournament.

Wright said: “I put myself into these drafts and you see what happens.

“I could easily be busy all winter or not but I am pretty relaxed now about what comes off.”