da fezbet： Sussex openers Chris Nash and Ed Joyce took their four-day form into one-day cricket as their side crushed Derbyshire by eight wickets at Hove
da dobrowin： 15-May-2011
ScorecardSussex openers Chris Nash and Ed Joyce took their four-day form into one-daycricket as their side crushed Derbyshire by eight wickets at Hove to go top ofClydesdale Bank 40 Group A.The pair have already compiled four century stands in the CountyChampionship this season and they put on 161 in 26 overs as the Sharks madelight work of their target of 197 to make it three successive wins after theyhad lost their opening game to today’s opponents a fortnight ago.Their partnership was a new county record against Derbyshire in one-daymatches, beating the 137 by Alan Wells and Martin Speight in 1990, and thefourth highest stand for any Sussex wicket in List A cricket. Both scored freely against a toothless attack on a flat pitch and the only disappointment was that neither scored a century.Nash needed treatment after he was struck on the left hand by a bouncer fromJon Clare and was on 78 when he mistimed a drive to mid-off off slow left-armerChesney Hughes. Joyce fell to Hughes for 90, which included 11 fours, when he holed out to deep midwicket but debutant Lou Vincent hit the next ball for six and Sussex wrappedup victory with 9.5 overs to spare.Earlier, Derbyshire had collapsed badly after a fourth one-day half-century ofthe season from Wes Durston appeared to have put them on course for an imposingtotal. Left-armer Chris Liddle picked up openers Usman Khawaja and Hughes insuccessive overs before Durston led the fightback by adding 48 in 11 overs withGreg Smith.Naveed Arif was convinced he had run out Durston on five when he claimed tohave deflected Smith’s straight drive onto the stumps and on 28 he survivedanother alarm when a pull dropped just short of the diving Nash at deepmidwicket.Smith, who was dropped by Vincent on 16, fell two balls later when he drove tomidwicket but Durston and Wayne Madsen played well in a punishing stand of 91from 98 balls for the fourth wicket. The visitors took their batting powerplay in the 33rd over but then their innings started to unravel as five wickets fell for just six runs in 15 balls.Sussex skipper Mike Yardy had Madsen caught off a mistimed slog sweep and inhis next over Yardy struck with successive deliveries. Durston was deceived by achange of pace and bowled for 85 off 103 balls, which included seven fours and astraight six off Monty Panesar.Luke Sutton was leg before wicket to the next delivery and although SteffanJones blocked the hat-trick ball he holed out to long-on in the next over, thesecond success for Rana Naved who had earlier yorked Jon Clare.Garry Park and Azeem Rafiq halted the collapse but on a true pitch a target of197 was never going to seriously extend Sussex and so it proved.
