WHO WILL FINISH THIRD ?

By Brian Sanderson,

After picking up Bob Procter and Brian Workman,we went down to Trent Bridge were it was the third day between Nottingham and Sussex. The ground was covered in cloud and the lights were on . It is the first time I had watched Championship cricket under lights. I am sure the match would not started if the lights had not been  available.From last week Nottingham had included two new debuts ie Jake Libby and Luke Wood.

When I arrived Riki Wessels had been lbw to Jordan leaving Notts 313 for 4 still 78 runs behind Sussex.
Notts were looking to get a extra batting point  however trying to reach 400 put after Patal was out stumped this was not achieved and it gave Sussex one more bowling point. This left Sussex 22 points behind Notts with a fixture against Northants next week and Notts finishing their season after this match.

After Notts were bowled out for 413 it left them just 22 runs in front. Sussex started quickly against Fletcher and Gurney with Yardy giving catching practise to the slips. This brought in Ed Joyce who started to show his class with numerous boundaries.At the end of the day he had scored 115 not out with 12  fours and 3 sixes.The dark clouds came in about five o,clock which forced the teams off the field due to bad light.

This was Ed Joyce,s seventh Championship century and he is the second player to reach 10,000 runs behind Murray Goodwin 11413.While Sussex Lewis Hatchett was bowling there was three dropped catches of three successive balls. Comment by the bowler was " it was just a freaky thing "

At the end of the day Sussex were 222 runs ahead with seven wickets in hand so could set up a target tomorrow.

Durham bowled Northants for 90 and so Durham won by 141 runs.This makes Durham 19 points in front of Sussex with a match against Warwick next week. Interesting.