Earlier, Sussex had done well before lunch to remove three players capable of taking the game away from them quickly.<\/p>\n
Ollie Pope signalled his intentions by hitting four boundaries in Fynn Hudson-Prentice’s opening over only to waste a good start when he was caught at second slip trying to guide the ball down to third man.<\/p>\n
Lawrence was held at long on and Smith at long off but there was no dislodging Sibley, who passed 10,000 first-class runs on 123 when he took a boundary off Henry Crocombe before hoisting Jack Carson down the ground for six to ease Surrey past Sussex’s 358.<\/p>\n
Another six off Carson took him to 150 and he seemed to be cruising towards a double hundred when he tried to belt Carson over the top again and was beaten in the flight to end a vigil that had lasted more than eight-and-a-half hours.<\/p>\n
Sibley has now faced a staggering 888 balls in six innings this season, batting for more than 20 hours \u2013 after he was last summer’s leading Division One run-scorer with 1,274 runs.<\/p>\n
When Haines pinned Clark Surrey’s lead was 103 but, just as Sussex’s had on day one, Surrey’s tailed wagged vigorously.<\/p>\n
With Thomas now into his stride, at the other end Sean Abbott took his cue and they added 161 in 27 overs, a new eighth-wicket Surrey record in this fixture beating the 150 by Robin Jackman and Intikhab Alam at The Oval in 1973.<\/p>\n
Abbott (76) was caught at backward point as Sussex took the last three wickets in four balls, but it was a brief respite after 159 draining overs in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier, Sussex had done well before lunch to remove three players capable of taking the game away from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-647944","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\/647944","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=647944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}