Sussex 245 for 7 (Carter 113*, Clark 55) vs Glamorgan
Andrew Salter bowled 33 overs within the day, conceding simply 65 runs, because the Glamorgan seamers rotated from the opposite finish. Carter and Harry Crocombe had been batting collectively on the shut of play with Sussex nonetheless closing in on a second batting level.
Having put Sussex into to bat Glamorgan appeared very harmful with the brand new ball as Michael Neser and James Weighell picked up the wickets of Tom Alsop and Tom Haines early on. It might have been a fair higher begin for Glamorgan with each openers getting a let off early on with probabilities happening within the slips.
An wonderful stand of precisely 100 between Clark and Carter took Sussex previous the lunch break with none additional injury with each trying in stable kind. When the wicket of Clark arrived, it was from a free shot as he tried to go excessive off the bowling of Salter just for the ball to loop as much as Colin Ingram at mid-on.
Carter moved handed his earlier profession-better of 72 in an innings that confirmed lots of maturity for a 20-12 months-outdated in simply his tenth firstclass match. Even as wickets fell from the opposite finish he stood agency, reaching his century from 208 deliveries.
“I’m obviously delighted with my knock,” Carter mentioned. “I hope it puts us in a good position tomorrow and hopefully we can crack on and win the game. We had lost [Haines] and [Alsop] early on so it made it more important for me and Clark to build a partnership and just progress from there.
“The pitch was difficult. You simply must be affected person and actually watch for it. It is a bit sluggish in patches so that you simply needed to actually be affected person and watch for the unhealthy ball to come back and try to rotate from these good balls.”
Hogan returned to the attack to claim the wicket of Tim Seifert with a ball that ducked back into the New Zealander to bowl him for 5 as Glamorgan chipped away at the Sussex middle order.
Salter bowled a mammoth spell from the River Taff End, sending down 26 overs unchanged. He claimed his second wicket when he had Danial Ibrahim caught down the leg side off wicketkeeper Chris Cooke who had an excellent day with the gloves.
The highlight for Cooke was when he got Delray Rawlins stumped while standing up to the seam of David Lloyd. The batter over balanced slightly and Cooke whipped off the bails to reduce Sussex to 192 for 6. Unfortunately for Cooke, he hobbled off the field with just 13 overs of the day’s with Ingram stepping in to keep wicket.
Sussex moved passed 200 to claim their first bonus point but shortly after lost their seventh wicket when a ball from Neser got big on Archie Lenham and the batter edged the ball into his stumps.
On a pitch that had markedly extra bounce in it than the one which was used within the Vitality Blast match in Cardiff on Friday, it was nonetheless difficult to attain freely, which made Carter’s first century all of the extra spectacular with solely Clark trying wherever close to as stable on the crease. It shall be attention-grabbing to see simply how telling Carter’s innings shall be as soon as Glamorgan have batted of their first innings.