County Championship: Surrey beat Sussex for first win of the season

Surrey completed their first County Championship win of the season with a comprehensive eight-wicket victory over Sussex at Kia Oval.

Charlie Tear, Jack Carson and Sussex captain Ollie Robinson were made to work hard for their 22 points.

Starting the final day at 76-4 still trailing by 188 in their second innings, Sussex were eventually bowled out for 277 in 85 overs, with Surrey needing a second new ball to finish the job.

This left Surrey needing just 14 runs in their second innings, achieved in four overs immediately after tea, although both Rory Burns and Ryan Patel fell leg-before to James Coles’ fourth and sixth balls of the second over.

Left-arm spinner Coles looked lucky to win his appeal against a sweeping Barnes, but Patel was on the front foot and so Dom Sibley and Olly Pope knocked away the rest of the runs.

The 21-year-old Teer scored a career-best 61, his second half-century in four first-class games, while Carson scored 48 and Robinson 42.

Sussex opener Tom Haynes, who had retired earlier in the day after being hit by Matt Fisher’s helmet grill with the first ball of the innings, returned to offer more valiant resistance with an unbeaten 20 at the fall of the eighth wicket.

Haynes, who passed a concussion check overnight, joined Robinson to ensure Surrey were allowed to bat again, with the pair adding another 35 either side of the new ball to take them to 258-8 from 80 overs.

Robinson, however, fell behind to Jordan Clarke in the 84th over and the innings soon ended when No. 11 Henry Crocombe fell to leg-before Fisher for four.

Clarke took 3-40 and Fisher 3-52, and the result meant that Surrey, after three high-scoring draws, made a slow start to their campaign, while Sussex suffered their first defeat.