Harris, Swepson share six as Glamorgan chisel out advantage

Glamorgan 242 and 46 for 0 lead Sussex 203 (Hudson-Prentice 59, Harris 3-38, Swepson 3-52) by 85 runs

Glamorgan’s bowlers fought their manner again into this recreation, dismissing Sussex for 203 as the house facet completed with a lead of 85 and 10 second-innings wickets standing

A primary-innings lead of 39 might be essential in a low-scoring contest. Australian leg spinner Mitch Swepson took the final two wickets in two balls to wrap issues up, ending with 3 for 52, whereas seamer James Harris returned figures of three for 38.

When he went for 59, the remainder of the Sussex innings folded. Glamorgan openers Zain-ul-Hassan and Andrew Salter went about patiently rising that lead, as the house facet completed the day on 46 with out loss.

The Australian Kookaburra ball is getting used for this match, with Glamorgan’s bowlers utilizing it to good impact to stem the runs for lengthy durations in addition to taking common wickets. Sussex scored at simply over two runs an over as they struggled to evade the fielders with their few attacking pictures, as the house bowlers maintained a stranglehold.

It was the thirtieth ball of the morning earlier than Sussex added to their in a single day rating, by which era Timm van der Gugten had added his second wicket of the innings by bowling Tom Alsop for 27, whereas Jamie McIlroy dismissed Tom Clark lbw for 32.

Then it was the flip of Harris to get in on the act, getting the wicket of James Coles along with his first ball after which including that of Danial Ibrahim to depart Sussex struggling on 95 for five.

Hudson-Prentice and Oli Carter had been affected person of their efforts to rebuild the innings earlier than the wicketkeeper fell caught behind off the bowling of McIlroy. Nathan McAndrew was caught and bowled by fellow Australian Swepson.

Offspinner Jack Carson then offered priceless help in a partnership of 61 with Hudson-Prentice which edged their workforce ever nearer to Glamorgan’s first-innings whole of 242. Carson was given a life when dropped by Billy Root off Zain, nonetheless, the top got here all of the sudden as Glamorgan wrapped the innings up with three wickets in 4 balls.

First Hudson-Prentice’s watchful innings was undone when he skied a brief ball from Harris, then Carson fell lbw and Aristides Karvelas caught behind by Chris Cooke, each to Swepson who will likely be on a hat-trick ball when he subsequent bowls.

Zain and Salter discovered getting runs equally troublesome within the early phases of Glamorgan’s second innings, earlier than scoring just a little extra freely in the previous few overs of the day. They are going to look to construct a match-winning lead, whereas Sussex will take confidence from the best way Glamorgan had been capable of maintain taking wickets because the Kookaburra ball bought older.