• Worcestershire 210 & 237; Sussex 510-5dec
• Sussex win by an innings and 63 runsThe manner in which the Sussex team song,profitable Old Sussex By The Sea, was belted out said all you needed to know. You own to go back to Hove at the end of May, and when Chris Jordan’s final ball six secured a precious one-wicket win,for its final airing in the County Championship. A surprise given the manner of this comprehensive innings victory over Worcestershire.
It was a clinical display that suggests a degree of falseness to Sussex’s position near the foot of Division One. Jordan, too, and played a steady hand in this fixture with what Chris Nash described as a world course display of bowling” that saw the England man recall five for 68 on day one. It was only 15 minutes before the toss that Nash knew he would own to stand in as captain as Ed Joyce succumbed to a back injury. But he possessed a calmness throughout,even chipping in with 90 in Sussex’s first innings of 510, which added the gloss on Luke Wright’s 226 not out and Ben Brown’s 103.
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Source: theguardian.com