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Sussex scored 358 runs on day one of the Rothesay County Championship against Surrey, with Robinson contributing an unbeaten 100. Surrey ended the day at 19 runs without loss.
Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Kia Oval (day one)
Sussex 358-9d: Carson 105, Robinson 100*, Hudson-Prentice 53; Clark 5-68, Fisher 3-92
Surrey 19-0: Sibley 13*, Burns 6*
Bonus Surrey (3 pts) trail Sussex (3 pts) by 339 runs
Ollie Robinson hit 100 not out from No 10, his highest score for more than a decade, as Sussex rallied remarkably against Surrey at the Kia Oval to reach 358-9 declared – after Jordan Clark's five-wicket burst before lunch had sent them plunging to 92-7.
Robinson, appointed as Sussex's captain for this season's County Championship, was joined by Jack Carson in a memorable ninth-wicket stand of 173 that followed a counter-attacking partnership of 75 in 12 overs between Carson and Fynn Hudson-Prentice.
Carson's own contribution to a pulsating opening day was a superb 105 – like Robinson, his second first-class century. Their stand was a Sussex ninth-wicket record against Surrey, topping the 160 by the legendary KS Ranjitsinhji and Fred Tate at Hastings in 1902, and only five runs short of the county's overall partnership record for that wicket.
Robinson completed his hundred with a pulled six over deep mid-wicket, and then promptly declared to leave Surrey's openers facing an awkward ten overs, in which they scored 19 without loss.
Hudson-Prentice's 58-ball 53, meanwhile, featuring a six and seven fours, also provided rich entertainment for a crowd of 5,500. Both Robinson's and Carson's hundreds were greeted by prolonged applause that rang around the ground. Clark had to settle in the end for 5-68, while Matt Fisher finished with 3-92.
Sussex, put in, seemed to have weathered the loss of Tom Haines for a second-ball nought, brilliantly caught above his head by Ollie Pope at second slip off Sean Abbott from an edged drive.
Tom Clark and Dan Hughes added 63 for the second wicket, with Clark in particular playing some eye-catching strokes. He was severe on Reece Topley when the left-arm seamer conceded 21 runs from his first two overs, including one stunning straight drive in a sudden rush of fours.
But then Surrey's Clark got to work, swinging one back into Hughes' pads in his second over to have him lbw for 22, before taking a further wicket in his next over and two more in his third.
Robinson scored an unbeaten 100 runs in Sussex's total of 358.
The top scorers for Sussex were Carson with 105 runs, Robinson with 100 not out, and Hudson-Prentice with 53 runs.
Clark took 5 wickets for 68 runs, and Fisher claimed 3 wickets for 92 runs.
Surrey ended day one with a score of 19 runs without losing any wickets.
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Tom Clark's 44 from 48 balls ended when he nicked a fine ball to keeper Jamie Smith, and Clark's two scalps in three balls in his following over were James Coles, bowled for six playing crookedly, and John Simpson, who touched another excellent delivery to Smith.
Charlie Tear shouldered arms to fall for a nine-ball duck, his off bail trimmed by Fisher, and Jack Leaning (3) edged behind a wild drive at a wide-ish ball from Clark that swung further away.
Clark had 5-16 from seven overs at lunch, with Sussex still a sickly 105-7, but Hudson-Prentice, rapped on the gloves by Clark on 13, then launched a thrilling assault on Fisher that began with a six whipped over mid-wicket.
Carson was dropped on 13, a hard high chance slashed to Pope at second slip off Abbott, but was looking secure by the time Hudson-Prentice was caught behind off Fisher in the 37th over.
The revelation of the day was the way Robinson batted, with his captaincy status clearly inspiring him as he built his great partnership with Carson.
He offered a difficult chance on 21, to Adam Thomas running back from cover off Topley, and a clip on 67 fell just short of Pope at mid-wicket, but otherwise Robinson was faultless in his application and selective shot-making as the pitch flattened out.
Carson, 25, showcased his own batting talents with 14 fours in a 149-ball stay that finally ended when he nicked Fisher's third delivery with the second new ball. But then came the six, another century celebration and the declaration.
Report by ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay.