Billy Root holds Glamorgan collectively as Sussex take pleasure in robust begin in Cardiff
Sussex 65 for 1 path Glamorgan 242 (Root 66, McAndrew 4-58) by 177 runs
Billy Root‘s 66 was the mainstay of the Glamorgan first innings towards Sussex, serving to to carry the house aspect to a first-innings whole of 242. Sussex’s Australian allrounder Nathan McAndrew took 4 for 58, offspinner Jack Carson 3 for 45, as they took common wickets to peg again the Welsh County’s hopes of a restoration after slipping to 60 for 4.
Sussex had been in a position to ram house the benefit after a great day with the ball to achieve 65 for 1 on the shut, simply 177 behind, for the lack of opener Tom Haines.
Glamorgan would have hoped for a greater return after profitable the toss and opting to bat on one other sunny day in Cardiff. Andrew Salter, Sam Northeast, Kiran Carlson and Chris Cooke all received begins, whereas Zain-ul-Hassan and Thomas Bevan each went cheaply early, leaving Glamorgan 4 down at lunch with Carlson going shortly afterwards.
Sussex’s abroad duo McAndrew and New Zealander Henry Shipley did a lot of the early harm, with Root holding the center order collectively on his approach to a half-century. He had promising partnerships with Carlson and Cooke, with an attention-grabbing debate about whether or not the common fall of wickets was attributable to unhealthy batting, a two-paced pitch or the Kookaburra ball getting used on this recreation.
Root was chanceless to his whole of 66 when he gave Jack Carson the cost for the primary time, regardless of having seen the ball flip prodigiously now and again. Bowler Timm van der Gugten has been scoring freely with the bat this season, and he continued that nice run of kind as companions got here and went.
Australian Mitchell Swepson made the briefest of debuts with the bat, and when Jamie McIlroy was caught down the leg aspect off McAndrew, van der Gugten was left stranded in need of a half-century and Glamorgan in need of a batting level.
It was van der Gugten who made the early breakthrough with the ball as nicely, pinning Haines lbw on the again foot to provide Glamorgan some early hope. However, Toms Clark and Alsop made first rate progress for the guests and shortly the seamers gave means for the primary sighting of Swepson’s legspin in Glamorgan whites.
He might have taken a wicket when Clark gloved a googly to slide Northeast, however a pointy likelihood was put down.