Sussex batting thrives towards stragglers Derbyshire on Hove opening day
Sussex 376 for 7 (Clark 96, Haines 86, Carter 56, Hudson-Prentice 52*) vs Derbyshire
Tom Clark top-scored with 96 and three of his team-mates additionally made half-centuries as Sussex took the first-day honours towards second division strugglers Derbyshire at Hove.
Having put Sussex in, Derbyshire squandered any benefit supplied by a pitch with a protecting of dwell grass throughout a careless first session on the 1st Central County Ground after they conceded 150 runs with out parting openers Clark and Tom Haines.
Haines fell for 86 to the primary ball after lunch and Clark went on to a season’s greatest earlier than each Ollie Carter and Fynn Hudson-Prentice handed fifty for the fifth time this season after tea as Sussex closed on 376 for seven.
Sussex have but to lose this season however badly want a second win to strengthen their hopes of promotion within the LV= Insurance County Championship and would have been happy with their day’s work, though Clark and Haines shall be dissatisfied to not have gotten to 3 figures.
Despite its inexperienced tinge the floor is dry and few balls misbehaved all day. Off-spinner Alex Thomson picked up three wickets for the primary time in a 12 months after being known as into the assault as early because the seventeenth over, however the Derbyshire seamers discovered little assist from both the floor or the Kookaburra ball getting used for the second time this summer season.
Skipper Leus du Plooy employed six bowlers within the morning session with out reward as Sussex’s two left-handers made serene progress at greater than 5 runs an over. Haines was the extra aggressive, hitting 15 fours, and it was a shock when he pushed ahead to the primary ball after lunch as Thomson discovered a modicum of flip and edged to slide.
It was the beginning of a productive afternoon for Derbyshire who bowled with extra self-discipline, though they had been helped by some questionable shot choice by Sussex’s batters.
Skipper Tom Alsop drove loosely at Suranga Lakmal and was caught at slip and James Coles, who’d simply hit Thomson for a straight six, tried a repeat and as an alternative holed out to lengthy on.
Clark and Carter added 55 for the fourth wicket with few alarms and Clark was on track for his first hundred of the season when he tried to drive Thomson down the bottom and picked out Du Plooy, who took a cushty catch at lengthy off. Clark hit 14 boundaries however he knew he’d missed out on a sizeable rating as he trudged off.
George Scrimshaw, enjoying his first Championship match for practically a 12 months, wasn’t afraid to check out the center of the pitch and was rewarded within the 78th over when Dan Ibrahim, who had struggled for fluency, wafted at a bouncer and was caught at backward sq. leg.
Carter has been Sussex’s most constant batter and in his unfussy however efficient method he handed fifty for third successive match solely to fall to a leg-side strangle and provides Scrimshaw his second wicket.
Nathan McAndrew misplaced his off stump to Lakmal when Derbyshire took the brand new ball, having been dropped at second slip by Haider Ali off Sam Conners within the earlier over. But former Derbyshire all-rounder Fynn Hudson-Prentice hit Conners for 4 successive fours on his technique to a 46-ball half-century and even nightwatchman Ari Karvelas loved himself, lofting Anuj Dal over the pavilion roof simply earlier than stumps.