Northamptonshire 97 and 137 for 4 (Homosexual 67) want an extra 147 to beat Sussex 143 (White 4-23, Procter 3-37) and 237 (Simpson 40, Procter 4-45)
Sussex’s bowlers dealt Northamptonshire a double blow late within the day at Wantage Highway to shut in on victory and the prospect to stretch their benefit on the prime of Vitality County Championship Division Two.
Procter performed a key function with the ball earlier within the day, recording season’s greatest figures of 4 for 45 as Sussex had been bowled out for 237 of their second innings, whereas Ben Sanderson took 3 for 44.
The opening day’s play had encompassed 22 wickets – and extra of the identical appeared on the playing cards when Tom Alsop departed within the first over, edging Sanderson behind with no enhance to Sussex’s in a single day lead of 129. In a decent opening spell Sanderson quickly dismissed nightwatcher Sean Hunt as effectively, taken at first slip, whereas Raphy Weatherall and Justin Broad additionally extracted motion and bounce off the floor.
James Coles settled all the way down to dispatch a collection of basic cowl drives to the boundary, whereas Oli Carter shook off a gradual begin by whipping Procter for six over sq. leg, however the Northamptonshire captain responded by bringing one again to pin Coles in entrance.
Broad then struck twice simply after lunch with a ball that seamed and bounced to clip Carter’s off bail earlier than Fynn Hudson-Prentice miscalculated a lower shot and speared it into the fingers of mid-off as an alternative.
Having spilled a lot of catches in Sussex’s first innings, the house aspect squandered a chance to take away John Simpson as Homosexual, springing throughout from second slip, fumbled a pointy probability off Sanderson. In the identical over, Broad’s throw from cowl ought to have left McAndrew in need of his floor and the Australian capitalised on that let-off, thrashing 5 boundaries to achieve a worthwhile 22 earlier than he was out in peculiar style.
McAndrew’s vanguard off Procter looped up in direction of mid-off, with the bowler racing to assemble it, colliding with the substitute fielder and dumping the ball on the turf in his follow-through – but the catch stood.
Procter swiftly polished off the final two wickets, together with that of Simpson for 40, to depart Northamptonshire virtually a session and a half’s batting and so they misplaced Ricardo Vasconcelos previous to tea, trapped in his crease by McAndrew’s second supply.
Nonetheless, Prithvi Shaw acquired off the mark by crunching McAndrew to the duvet fence and continued to exhibit stylish strokeplay on both aspect of the wicket as he and Homosexual constructed a partnership of 69, the best of the match.
Left-armer Hunt produced a magnificence to separate the pair, knocking again Shaw’s off stump for 37 – and he may additionally have dislodged Homosexual in his subsequent over however Simpson, leaping low to his left, was unable to pouch the prospect.
The opener took benefit to cross 50 for the sixth time this season from the subsequent ball and he and Procter dug in to achieve 118 for two earlier than Sussex prised them each out in successive overs. Offspinner Jack Carson persuaded Procter to nudge one to Simpson and the swift lack of Homosexual left Matthew Breetzke and Rob Keogh with the duty of making certain Northamptonshire at the least dwell to combat one other day.
