Rothesay County Championship, Division One, County Floor, Hove (day three)
Nottinghamshire 240 & 149-7: Hameed 43; Karvelas 4-34, Unadkat 3-39
Sussex 358: Clark 89, Worth 72; Hutton 4-59, Stone 3-81
Nottinghamshire (3 pts) lead Sussex (6 pts) by 31 runs
Sussex’s Ari Karvelas took 4 wickets both aspect of tea to depart Nottinghamshire’s probabilities of retaining their County Championship title hanging by a thread.
The 32-year-old answered an SOS from his outdated county final month and delayed taking on a brand new job educating cricket at Solihull Faculty.
And it seemed like an excellent choice throughout a spell of 3-17 from 10 overs which included the in-form Joe Clarke for the second time within the match.
Karvelas completed with 4-34 and Nottinghamshire closed on 149-7 – a lead of simply 31 – after Jaydev Unadkat collected three late wickets in 14 balls.
Till Karvelas got here again into the assault, Nottinghamshire had loved a interval of superiority for the primary time within the recreation.
They picked up a 3rd bowling bonus level from the final out there ball in working by way of Sussex’s final 4 wickets for simply eight runs in 23 deliveries to maintain their first-innings deficit right down to 118.
The lack of 36 overs to rain earlier than lunch didn’t assist their efforts to maintain the stress on leaders Warwickshire, who had their toes up after beating Essex in two days.
Equally, a win for Sussex offers them an awesome likelihood of a top-three end and Karvelas, difficult each edges of the bat and discovering bounce from the Cromwell Street finish that has eluded the opposite seamers on this match, has definitely boosted their hopes.
Nottinghamshire had no selection however to begin their second innings positively and openers Haseeb Hameed and Ben Slater serenely added 52 however there was nothing Slater might do when Karvelas received one to carry alarmingly off an excellent size and wicketkeeper John Simpson did the remaining.
Hameed was reprieved on 23 when George Thomas put down a simple likelihood at backward level off Sean Hunt.
However Hunt and Tom Worth constructed stress earlier than Karvelas returned to make the important thing incisions.
Hameed minimize to gully on 43 and Karvelas’ capacity to search out further bounce was evident once more when Clarke edged to second slip off the shoulder of the bat – Karvelas’ one hundredth first-class wicket.
Freddie McCann turned his fourth sufferer courtesy of a nice diving catch by Simpson off an expansive drive with Notts nonetheless in arrears and when Karvelas got here off there was no respite.
His substitute Unadkat struck along with his first ball which Jack Haynes wafted to backward level earlier than he took out Olly Stone’s center and leg stumps in his subsequent over.
Simpson then dived full size to his proper to take one other excellent catch off Liam Patterson-White’s inside edge.
Earlier, it had been an honest effort by Nottinghamshire’s bowlers to make comparatively brief work of the Sussex tail when play began at 13:30 BST, particularly as Worth and Jack Carson, who each made half-centuries, had prolonged their seventh-wicket stand to 92 in 25 overs.
Worth’s 72 contained 9 fours and seemed good for a couple of extra when he tried to run Stone off the bat face to 3rd man however edged to first slip.
Carson hit 9 fours in his 53 however in attempting to steer Brett Hutton into the leg aspect he received a forefront to level.
There have been prolonged celebrations when Notts struck with the ultimate ball of the a hundred and tenth over to say the ninth wicket and a 3rd bowling level when Karvelas drove Hutton to mid-on the place Hameed took an excellent low catch.
Within the subsequent over, left-arm spinner Patterson-White received one to show sharply off a middle-stump line and bowl Unadkat.
Hutton completed with 4-59 however his aspect are up towards it going into the ultimate day.
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