{"id":639432,"date":"2026-06-15T07:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T07:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639432\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T07:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T07:11:15","slug":"county-championship-sussex-top-after-beating-glamorgan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/639432\/","title":{"rendered":"County Championship: Sussex top after beating Glamorgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rothesay County Championship, Division One, County Ground, Hove (day three)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan 155 &amp; 268: Tribe 64, Kellaway 55; Haines 3-5, Coles 3-34<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sussex 521: Coles 224*, Hughes 72, Haines 48; Norton 3-119 <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sussex (23pts) beat Glamorgan (2pts) by an innings and 98 runs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/scorecard\/e-233520\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Match scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sussex moved to the top of County Championship Division One with their fourth victory in seven matches when they beat Glamorgan by an Innings and 98 runs inside three days at Hove.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tom Haines, captain in the absence of England&#8217;s Ollie Robinson, led the way with three wickets for just five runs with his tight medium pace, but there were also three for James Coles and two for Dom Goodman on debut after being called up replace England-bound Henry Crocombe during the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Determined Glamorgan batting frustrated the Sussex bowlers for much of the day but the visiting side lost two wickets just before lunch and three more shortly after tea which sealed their fate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan resumed on 42 without loss, still 324 runs behind, but perhaps inspired by memories of their second innings score of 737 to save the match here three years ago after trailing by 358 on the first innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Openers Zain-ul-Hassan and Asa Tribe batted with great doggedness against a wide variety of Sussex bowlers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tribe reached fifty from 98 deliveries when he worked Jack Carson through midwicket for his sixth four. The hundred came up in the 35th over and ul-Hassan had scored just 25 at that stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ten minutes before lunch Haines chucked the ball to spinner Coles and the move worked as ul-Hassan clipped his second ball firmly off his toes only to see Tom Alsop, at short-leg, pull off a fine reflex catch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three overs later, the last before lunch, Glamorgan lost their second wicket when Tribe was bowled by Carson with one that spun sharply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That last over before the break was something of a surprise as the clock appeared to be showing 1.00pm when the umpires allowed another over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an attritional afternoon session Glamorgan scored 92 runs for the loss of one wicket when Ben Kellaway, who had hit seven fours in his 55 was leg before, half-forward, to one that moved in from Haines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 212-3 at tea, Glamorgan could have felt proud of their rearguard action, but from the last ball of the first over after the break Colin Ingram edged Haines to Alsop at first slip for a pair. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two overs later Kiran Carlson was run out for 32 by Dom Goodman at square-leg, slipping after being sent back by Sean Dickson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And it was three wickets in four overs when Dickson, playing at a wide delivery from Haines, was caught by Jack Leaning at second slip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A stand of 42 for the seventh wicket  was ended when Chris Cooke, who had been caught off a no-ball and dropped at slip, was lbw to Coles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Goodman took his first wickets for Sussex when he had Tom van der Gugten and Tom Norton caught behind in the same over before Coles &#8211; who made a double century on day two &#8211; finished the game by bowling last man Ryan Hadley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Report by ECB Reporters&#8217; Network, supported by Rothesay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sussex captain Tom Haines:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy. Glamorgan are a good team. They&#8217;ve come up and shocked a few big teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We knew we were in for a scrap. But we got ahead in the game. It was a big toss for us. But we still had to do the job and that&#8217;s what we did. We&#8217;ve now got an extra day off for rhe bowlers before the Hampshire game at the end of the week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Simmo [John Simpson] hasn&#8217;t bowled me much in the past two years but Robbo has bowled me a bit more this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8221; It was a team performance, though. Jaydev (Unadkat) bowled 20 overs of first-class stuff and didn&#8217;t take a wicket in the second innings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan head coach Richard Dawson:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve underperformed. Sussex put us under pressure throughout the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We scored a couple of fifties here and there and few partnerships but we didn&#8217;t go big enough. We know that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When we&#8217;ve won games this season we&#8217;ve put together big partnerships and did it consistently. But we haven&#8217;t done that this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The toss was important. It was tricky on the first day. But Sussex have a good attack for all conditions. Two good spinners. Good seam bowlers, left arm right arm. 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