Glamorgan vs Sussex: Day 2 Match Report

Fynn Hudson-Prentice top scored Sussex’s innings with 59 runs on a low scoring day at Sophia Gardens but Glamorgan batted through the remainder of the evening session to lead by 85 at the close of play.

Sussex had started the day in a strong position on 65-1, but lost both not out batters before a run had been added, with Hudson-Prentice then holding the innings together in scoring only the second half-century of the match.

Hudson-Prentice and Jack Carson had formed a good partnership before tea, making 61 in total, which was the highest in the Sussex innings. But once that was broken by Glamorgan, Sussex were all out quickly for 203.

On their return to the crease for the second time in the match, Glamorgan openers Zain ul-Hassan and Andrew Salter went about patiently increasing that lead, as the home side finished the day on 46 without loss.

The Australian Kookaburra ball is being used for this match, with Glamorgan’s bowlers using it to good effect to stem the runs for long periods as well as taking regular wickets.

Sussex scored at just over two runs an over as they struggled to evade the fielders with their attacking shots, as the Welsh County bowlers maintained a stranglehold.

It was the 30th ball of the morning before Sussex added to their overnight score, by which time Timm van der Gugten had added his second wicket of the innings by bowling Tom Alsop for 27 while Jamie McIlroy dismissed Tom Clark LBW for 32.

Then it was the turn of Harris to get in on the act, getting the wicket of James Coles with his first ball and then adding that of Danial Ibrahim to leave Sussex on 95-5.

Hudson-Prentice and Oli Carter were patient in their efforts to rebuild the innings before the wicketkeeper fell caught behind off the bowling of McIlroy. Nathan McAndrew was caught and bowled by fellow Australian Swepson.

Off spinner Jack Carson then provided valuable support in the aforementioned partnership with Hudson-Prentice which edged their team ever closer to Glamorgan’s first innings total of 242..

However, Glamorgan wrapped the innings up with three wickets in four balls.

First Hudson-Prentice’s watchful innings was undone when he skied a short ball from Harris, then Carson fell LBW and Ari Karvelas caught behind by Chris Cooke, both to Swepson who will be on a hat-trick ball when he next bowls.

Ul-Hassan and Salter found getting runs equally difficult in the early stages of Glamorgan’s second innings, before scoring a little more freely in the last few overs of the day.

They will look to build a match-winning lead, while Sussex will take confidence from the way Glamorgan were able to keep taking wickets as the Kookaburra ball got older.

Report provided by the ECB Reporter's Network