{"id":169632,"date":"2025-09-26T04:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169632\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T04:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:50:17","slug":"sussex-keep-top-flight-cricket-at-hove-for-another-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169632\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussex keep top flight cricket at Hove for another campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"topicSummery\">COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION ONE ROUNDUP: One Day Cup winners Worcestershire are heading for an eighth defeat of the season unless they can turn around a perilous position at New Road<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" class=\"img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/simpsonj250901.webp.webp\" alt=\"simpsonj250901\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyotagoodforcricket.co.uk\/?utm_source=Cricketer&amp;utm_medium=Digital&amp;utm_campaign=Urgency&amp;utm_term=TheCricketer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/toyotaecbbanner.webp.webp\" alt=\"toyotaecbbanner\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Road (day two of four):\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecricketer.com\/worcestershire.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Worcestershire<\/a>\u00a0123 &amp; 270-6,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecricketer.com\/sussex.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sussex<\/a>\u00a0350 &#8211; Worcestershire lead by 43 runs with four second innings wickets remaining<\/p>\n<p>John Simpson&#8217;s unbeaten 129 and six second innings Worcestershire wickets kept Sussex in command on day two of the County Championship clash at New Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A glistening fourth century of the season from the away side&#8217;s skipper saw Sussex add 122 runs to their overnight score, before they were bowled out for 350.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecricketer.com\/Topics\/county-championship-premium\/peter_moores_transformative_nottinghamshire_summit.html?t=638944230947225761\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Moores&#8217; transformative powers propel a united Nottinghamshire back to the summit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecricketer.com\/Topics\/county-championship-premium\/hampshire_stutter_surrey_division_one_survival.html?t=638944230949956701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hampshire stutter in pursuit of Division One survival<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With a deficit of 227, Jake Libby (72) and Rehaan Edavalath (45) added a century stand for the first wicket to throw the Pears a lifeline.<\/p>\n<p>Six wickets across the second half of the day, however, saw Worcestershire cling onto a slender lead of 43 runs heading into the third day with just four wickets intact.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of Tony Marsh<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaK5aDWKQuJFp9CcYK0N\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/whatsapp-wsb.webp.webp\" alt=\"whatsapp-wsb\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<\/p>\n<p>Your comment &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Post Comment <\/p>\n<p>Please ensure all fields are completed before submitting your comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION ONE ROUNDUP: One Day Cup winners Worcestershire are heading for an eighth defeat of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-169632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}