da aviator aposta： Four wickets for Monty Panesar undermined Durham as they subsided from 173 for 1 to 292 all out against Sussex in their County Championship Division One encounter at Chester-le-Street today
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Andrew Hodd’s 67 rescued Sussex from a precarious position at Chester-le-Street•PA Photos
An onslaught by Ian Blackwell lifted the pressure off Durham and put themfirmly in command at the end of the second day of the County ChampionshipDivision One match against Sussex at Chester-le-Street.Despite a first-innings lead of 98, Durham were rocking on 79 for 4 and thevisitors must have scented further success as Blackwell initially looked all atsea.He survived a chance to slip off James Anyon on four and a return chance toMonty Panesar on five and then hit Panesar just over the fielder at long-on, whowas 10 yards in from the rope.But that blow opened the floodgates and three sixes followed, two of themfiercely pulled in one Anyon over, as Blackwell reached 50 off 44 balls.He holed out off Anyon at deep square leg for 51, leaving Dale Benkenstein andMichael Richardson to take Durham to 166 for 5 at the close, leading by 264.On a day when 14 wickets fell there was some variable bounce and the ball swungin the haze. But there was little hint of trouble for the batsmen in the firsthour.Sussex resumed on 31 for 1 and the tentative Luke Wells departed for 10 whenhe edged Callum Thorp to first slip, but Chris Nash and Joe Gatting played wellto take the score to 108 for 2.Then three wickets went down on the same score. Ruel Brathwaite struck in hissecond over, when a hint of away movement had Nash lbw for 65. Although Thorp had bowled for over an hour, he switched ends after a short restand took two wickets in his first four balls.Gatting was lbw for 27 and Ben Brown edged to third slip, then acting captainMurray Goodwin departed in the last over before lunch, popping up a catch toshort leg off Blackwell’s second ball of the day.Sussex were 119 for 6 and got to 198 only because of Andrew Hodd’s excellentinnings of 67. He had to bat with a flimsy tail and was last out when he liftedBlackwell to mid-off.Durham struggled to build on their lead against some fiery bowling from RanaNaved-ul-Hasan and Amjad Khan.Rana steamed in for 11 overs in a superb opening burst but his only reward camefrom perhaps the worst ball he bowled. Gordon Muchall had a dab at it and edgedto Hodd.Michael Di Venuto lasted only until the ninth ball of the innings, clippingKhan to midwicket, while Anyon struck in his first over for the second time inthe match, having Will Smith caught behind.Ben Stokes played several fine strokes in reaching 26 but then fell lbw to aball from Panesar which kept very low. That brought in Blackwell and by the timehe departed Durham’s jitters had vanished.