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Joyce and Wells cement Sussex’s superiority
- Updated: May 29, 2016
Sussex 342 for 4 (Joyce 106, Wells 104*, Nash 65) lead Derbyshire 150 (Thakor 47*, Magoffin 4-23) by 192 runsScorecard
Sussex consider themselves a Division One club in exile, temporarily marooned in Division Two. With three Championship titles this century, that is their right. But their return to Division Two has not been kind: May is almost out, and they have yet to win a game.
No one would have thought it from the swagger with which they have played this match. This was a day so unmatched that it may as well have been Pranav Dhanawade, the 15-year-old from Mumbai, striking 1000 in an innings against boys many years his younger in January.
Derbyshire’s bowlers could have forgiven for thinking they had been here before. So they had: at Derby earlier this month, Ed Joyce and Luke Wells added 310 for the second wicket before the hosts were reprieved by inclement weather.
Against bowling that was ragtag and both sides of the wicket, and fielding that fell below exemplary, the two threatened to repeat that feat. In the end they had to be content with adding 135, but both made chanceless and utterly dominant centuries.
Wells’ hundred was particularly welcome. He has marked himself out as a classic opening batsman of the old-school, using his huge stride forward to inoculate his wicket against harm. But his form has stagnated in …
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