Wickets continue to fall on day 2 at Trent Bridge

Ollie Robinson took another three wickets on day two of our LV= Insurance County Championship match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge, but the home side managed to rally and closed the day with a lead of 381 runs.

Robinson proved deadly with the new ball for the second time, reducing the Division Two leaders to 40 for three in their second innings. But after Haseeb Hameed made 94 and Lyndon James 56, Nottinghamshire finished on 284 for seven.

Earlier, Nottinghamshire pace bowlers James Pattinson and Dane Paterson finished with five wickets each as Sussex were bowled out for 143 in reply to Nottinghamshire’s first innings 240.

Nottinghamshire managed to take the final five Sussex wickets early in the morning, the key breakthrough coming in the sixth over when Dane Paterson trapped Cheteshwar Pujara.

His wicket, ending a partnership worth 71, more than compensated the South African bowler for a chance missed earlier when Archie Lenham, the 18-year-old son of Neil Lenham and grandson of Les, who had battled courageously alongside Pujara in the face of a high class attack, was put down at second slip.

With Pujara gone, Paterson and Pattinson took the remaining five wickets swiftly, only conceding 23 runs in the process.

Pattinson removed Lenham for a gutsy 31, the youngster looking disappointed to be given out leg before after the ball rolled away to third slip..

As on day one of a breathtakingly fast-moving contest, Robinson came up with a superb opening spell as Sussex, trailing by 97 on first innings, made early inroads.

Again, his fourth and fifth overs were productive as Ben Slater, Ben Duckett and Joe Clarke departed in the space of six deliveries, the last-named pair without scoring.

Slater went after a short ball with little chance of controlling the shot and was caught at fine leg. Duckett was caught behind off an inside edge before Clarke, offering no shot, was lbw to a ball that kept low.

If they had winkled out Hameed at that point, Sussex might have felt they were back in the contest but the sometime England opener, closing on 1,000 first-class runs in a season for the first time since his sensational breakthrough year at Lancashire in 2016, looked in splendid touch.

Hameed missed out on a hundred when a ball from Sean Hunt, the 20-year-old left-armer, nipped away to have him caught behind. In his best spell of the match, Hunt also dismissed James, lbw trying to work him to leg.

Currie removed Tom Moores shortly after tea with another delivery that found the edge and Steven Mullaney, whose 70 was the key innings in Nottinghamshire’s first innings, added another 42 before being caught lbw.

Pattinson and Liam Patterson-White added 34 before bad light brought the close forward by two overs.