Barnard scores second straight ton as Warwickshire scramble to victory
Warwickshire 279 for 9 (Barnard 100) beat Sussex 275 for 8 (Alsop 68, Ibrahim 56, Haines 55) by one wicket
Ed Barnard continued his excellent kind within the Metro Bank One-Day Cup together with his second successive century as Warwickshire scrambled to a one-wicket win over Sussex Sharks at Hove to seal prime spot in Group B and a house semi-final on 29 August.
The 27-year-old all-rounder, who had earlier taken his eleventh wicket on this season’s competitors, took his mixture to 590 runs with 100, two days after he’d made 161 – his maiden List A century – in opposition to Durham. He has additionally scored three fifties.
Sussex had fancied their possibilities of ending a dismal marketing campaign with solely their second win once they had Warwickshire 126 for 4 midway via their pursuit of 276 and once more once they eliminated Barnard and Ethan Brookes, who’d placed on 78 for the fifth wicket, in successive overs with 64 nonetheless wanted.
Jake Lintott hit a breezy 28 however Henry Crocombe picked up two wickets to maintain Sussex in competition and when final man Oliver Hannon-Dalby walked out Warwickshire nonetheless wanted 13 off 16 balls.
Sussex had one final alternative however sub fielder Zach Lion-Cachet dropped Danny Briggs on the boundary and Briggs swung the following ball over mid-on for 4 to seal his group’s seventh win out of eight.
Barnard and Rob Yates had begun with 83 in 13 overs for the primary wicket, however their progress was checked by three wickets in six overs, two of them for allrounder Dan Ibrahim, who discovered some additional seam motion to defeat Yates whereas Alex Davies performed on. Skipper Will Rhodes drove to mid-off and Jake Bethell under-edged to the keeper earlier than Barnard and Brookes rebuilt.
Barnard was stumped giving off-spinner James Coles the cost, having hit 9 fours and twice cleared the quick boundary on the jap facet whereas Brookes (43) was leg earlier than sweeping Bertie Foreman within the subsequent over.
For Sussex it was a seventh defeat of their eight video games, a bitter disappointment after they reached the final 4 a 12 months in the past, though this was a significantly better efficiency.
Put in by Rhodes, their 275 for 8 featured three half-centuries, however nobody was in a position to push on and make the massive rating that may have given them a extra aggressive whole on a gradual pitch.
Tom Alsop prime scored with 68 – his first fifty of the event – and Tom Haines hit 55 – his fourth half-century – earlier than Ibrahim made it back-to-back fifties as he added 65 for the seventh wicket with Foreman – one other 19-year-old – as 93 have been plundered off the final ten overs.
At least Sussex made a good whole and not using a main contribution from Cheteshwar Pujara, who was leg earlier than to Henry Brookes for 23 from 40 balls and appeared unusually out of kinds.
Warwickshire bowled tightly. The competitors’s main wicket-taker Hannon-Dalby claimed his twenty fourth sufferer when Ibrahim feathered an edge to wicketkeeper Kai Smith and there have been two wickets for leg-spinner Lintott, who pinned Haines leg earlier than to finish a second-wicket stand of 83 with Alsop.
Alsop has been in poor kind within the event with single-figure scores in 5 of his earlier seven innings however appeared extra assured till holing out within the deep to provide Lintott a second wicket.
Ibrahim and Foreman swelled the full within the closing overs, their partnership spanning simply 35 balls with Ibrahim’s 56 coming from 46 deliveries.