Kent’s Harry Podmore and Marcus O’Riordan took three wickets apiece while Sussex captain Ben Brown top-scored with an unbeaten 90 as honours finished even on the opening day of this Bob Willis Trophy south group clash at a sultry Canterbury.
O’Riordan, the 22-year-old off-spinner making only his third first-class appearance, took career-best figures of three for 50 and former Middlesex seamer Podmore bagged three for 74 while Brown stood firm for over four hours to see Sussex in at stumps on 320/9.
With the score on 215/4, and Rawlins on 20, Podmore, the former Middlesex seamer, then found the inside edge of Rawlins’ bat with a booming in-swinger that flew to the keeper.
