Billy Root holds Glamorgan together as Sussex enjoy strong start in Cardiff

Sussex 65 for 1 path Glamorgan 242 (Root 66, McAndrew 4-58) by 177 runs

Sussex had been in a position to ram dwelling the benefit after a very good day with the ball to succeed in 65 for 1 on the shut, simply 177 behind, for the lack of opener Tom Haines.

Glamorgan would have hoped for a greater return after profitable the toss and opting to bat on one other sunny day in Cardiff. Andrew Salter, Sam Northeast, Kiran Carlson and Chris Cooke all obtained begins, whereas Zain-ul-Hassan and Thomas Bevan each went cheaply early, leaving Glamorgan 4 down at lunch with Carlson going shortly afterwards.

Sussex’s abroad duo McAndrew and New Zealander Henry Shipley did a lot of the early harm, with Root holding the center order collectively on his solution to a half-century. He had promising partnerships with Carlson and Cooke, with an attention-grabbing debate about whether or not the common fall of wickets was attributable to dangerous batting, a two-paced pitch or the Kookaburra ball getting used on this sport.

Root was chanceless to his whole of 66 when he gave Jack Carson the cost for the primary time, regardless of having seen the ball flip prodigiously from time to time. Bowler Timm van der Gugten has been scoring freely with the bat this season, and he continued that nice run of type as companions got here and went.

Australian Mitchell Swepson made the briefest of debuts with the bat, and when Jamie McIlroy was caught down the leg aspect off McAndrew, van der Gugten was left stranded wanting a half-century and Glamorgan wanting a batting level.

It was van der Gugten who made the early breakthrough with the ball as properly, pinning Haines lbw on the again foot to offer Glamorgan some early hope. Nevertheless, Toms Clark and Alsop made respectable progress for the guests and shortly the seamers gave approach for the primary sighting of Swepson’s legspin in Glamorgan whites.

He may have taken a wicket when Clark gloved a googly to slide Northeast, however a pointy probability was put down.