Sussex captain Chris Adams loses the toss, sees his openers depart quickly and also struggles to find runs of his own He goes for only six and is followed three overs later by Murray Goodwin as Lancashire reduce their opponents to 46-4 A fifth wicket falls just minutes later when Carl Hopkinson is run out for one by Dominic Cork at mid-off The situation looks bleak for Sussex when Chapple unseats Robin Martin-Jenkins to make it 78-6 during the 26th over Yasir Arafat comes in at number eight and gets to 37, the highest score of the innings, before falling to Sajid Mahmood Having lost several partners, Michael Yardy's patient innings also reaches 37 before Murali Kartik gets the better of him Mahmood claims one of the remaining wickets to finish with 3-16 as Sussex post a meagre total of 172 all out Lancashire's first-wicket pairing of Mal Loye and Mark Chilton put on 23 before the former is trapped lbw by James Kirtley Kirtley strikes again in the next over when another lbw decision marks the end of Nathan Astle's innings Stuart Law is out next ball for a golden duck as another lbw decision goes Kirtley's way, Lancashire are left on 27-3 Luke Wright dismisses Luke Sutton to end a 24-run partnership with Chilton and give the Sharks hope Mushtaq Ahmed then pitches in with the wickets of Chilton and Glen Chapple to leave Lancashire at 72-6 Dominic Cork and Kyle Hogg share a fifty partnership but Kirtley and Yasir Arafat combine to mop up the Lancashire tail Sussex and man-of-the-match Kirtley celebrate their win after bowling out Lancashire for 157 - 15 runs short of the target
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