Oli Carter, Bradley Currie the heroes as Sussex upset Hampshire
Sussex 183 for six (Carter 64) beat Hampshire 177 for 9 (Dawson 59, Currie 3-27) by six runs
Oli Carter and Bradley Currie had been the unlikely heroes as Sussex Sharks upset Hampshire Hawks at Hove to assert solely their third win on this season’s Vitality Blast.
In quick-scoring situations on the 1st Central County Ground the reigning champions dragged issues again properly after Carter (64) and skipper Ravi Bopara (30) took Sussex to 127 for two within the twelfth over with a stand of 98 in 9 overs. They departed in successive overs and though Sussex received to 183 for six it did not look sufficient.
But by the second ball of the third over Hampshire had slumped to fifteen for 3 and had been quickly 24 for 4. Although Liam Dawson made 59 off 34 balls and their lower-order batters stored swinging Sussex received by six runs.
Debutant Currie began his first over with two wides however then had James Vince caught at deep mid-wicket earlier than Toby Albert performed on to the following ball. The hat-trick supply was additionally a large however Sussex had been celebrating once more when Ben McDermott was pinned in entrance of center stump by Ari Karvelas at first of the following over.
The 24-year-old left-armer, who can be taking part in for Dorset within the National Counties Trophy in opposition to Wales on Sunday, took his third wicket in his second over when Ross Whiteley dragged on, leaving Hampshire 24 for 4.
Joe Weatherley (33) and Dawson rebuilt in a stand of 51 and even after Weatherley fatally swung throughout the road to a straight ball from Bopara, Dawson did not hand over.
He reached his sixth fifty within the format and had simply hit George Garton into the flats overlooking the bottom for his fifth six when the left-armer hit the highest of off stump along with his subsequent ball.
But this was an evening for Currie. He added to his three wickets with a sensational catch when he made ten yards to his left and dived full size on the mid-wicket boundary to take a two-handed seize and take away Howell. Even then, with 22 wanted off the ultimate over, Nathan Ellis scored 12 off the primary three balls however was leg earlier than to the fifth from Karvelas as Hampshire completed on 177 for 9.
The sudden star of the Sussex innings was 19-year-old Carter, who smashed 64 off simply 33 balls in solely his sixth sport within the format. His earlier highest rating was 27 in opposition to Essex earlier this month however he made probably the most of his probability at No.3 to hit six fours and 4 sixes, together with successive maximums off James Fuller to change into solely the third Sussex batter to lodge a fifty on this season’s Blast.
Skipper Bopara has made two of them and when he and Carter had been placing on 98 from 54 balls for the third wicket the holders appeared somewhat rattled.
But, as skilled sides are inclined to do, the Hawks held their nerve and Sussex struggled to regain the initiative after Bopara, who had simply heaved the returning Howell over mid-wicket, performed on attempting to repeat the shot to the following ball.
Carter performed pictures throughout the wicket and demonstrated eye-catching improvisation, however he departed 4 balls later giving himself room to heave over cow nook solely to select Ellis, who took catch, as an alternative. That was within the twelfth over and Sussex did not rating one other boundary till the seventeenth as Howell and Dawson, whose 4 overs price simply 21, stored issues tight.