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Specsavers County Championship Division Two

Day 3 - End of Play - Gloucestershire leads by 27 runs with 4 wickets remaining

Gloucestershire 200 & 197/6 Sussex 370

Delray Rawlins and his Sussex teammates look set to propel themselves right back into the Specsavers County Championship Second Division promotion race after dominating the third day of the match against Gloucestershire at Bristol.

On the brink of a second successive victory, Sussex posted 370 to establish a first-innings lead of 170 and then reduced their opponents to 197/6 by the close.

Gloucestershire lead by just 27 runs with four second-innings wickets in hand, only Chris Dent, who top-scored with 72, summoned meaningful second-innings resistance for Gloucestershire, whose top-order batting was undermined by a series of soft dismissals, James Bracey, Gareth Roderick and Miles Hammond all falling to ill-advised forcing shots.

Hammond succumbed in meek fashion for 10, taking on spinner Rawlins and top-edging a catch to slip.

Sussex First Inning

..64 (83) PD Salt c Bracey b Payne
..42 (122) LWP Wells c Bracey b Payne
..22 (47) TJ Haines c Bracey b Smith
..28 (84) S van Zyl LBW MD Taylor
..10 (24) Delray Rawlins c Roderick b Payne
..24 (75) BC Brown c Hammond b Charlesworth
..67 (97) D Wiese c Charlesworth b Higgins
..06 (07) CJ Jordan c Roderick b Charlesworth
..40 (76) WAT Beer Hit Wicket b Payne
..01 (09) GHS Garton Not Out
..06 (10) OE Robinson c JMR Taylor b Higgins
..60 Extras (7b-7lb-46nb)
370 Total All Out after 101.5 overs

Fall of Wickets: 1-100 (Salt), 2-151 (Haines), 3-161 (Wells), 4-177 (Rawlins), 5-221 (van Zyl), 6-259 (Brown), 7-267 (Jordan), 8-359 (Wiese), 9-359 (Beer), 10-370 (Robinson)

Gloucestershire Bowlers

29.-10-59-4 DA Payne
20.-0-121-0 ST Gabriel
23.5-6-73-2 RF Higgins
11.-1-38-1 MD Taylor
12.-2-38-1 TMJ Smith
6.0-0-27-2 BG Charlesworth

Gloucestershire 2nd Inning

..18 (40) JR Bracey c Brown b Wiese
..72 (103) CDJ Dent c Brown b Garton
..08 (07) GH Roderick c Haines b Wiese
..10 (45) MAH Hammond c Jordan b Rawlins
..23 (62) TMJ Smith c Beer b Robinson
..15 (60) BG Charlesworth LBW Robinson
..24 (41) RF Higgins Not Out
..10 (23) JMR Taylor Not Out
..17 Extras (4b-7lb-6nb)
197 Total for 6 Wickets after 63 overs

Fall of Wickets: 1-48 (Bracey), 2-64 (Roderick), 3-112 (Hammond), 4-128 (Dent), 5-151 (Smith), 6-170 (Charlesworth)

Sussex Bowlers

18.-3-46-2 OE Robinson
13.-5-28-0 CJ Jordan
6.0-1-29-2 D Wiese
3.0-0-14-0 TJ Haines
7.0-1-15-1 GHS Garton
8.0-0-32-1 Delray Rawlins
6.0-3-13-0 LWP Wells
2.0-0-09-0 WAT Beer