Sussex 320 for five (Tear 73, Leaning 59*, Carson 53) beat Essex 316 for six (Thain 102, Westley 81) by 5 wickets
The Sussex Sharks gained their first Metro Financial institution One Day Cup match on the fourth try, beating Essex by 5 wickets with simply 4 balls to spare at Arundel.
Leaning struck simply two fours in reaching fifty however hit a six within the penultimate over to arrange victory.
That introduced in Joe Johnson for his first workforce debut. And he lofted Mitchell Killeen over mid-on for six as 16 got here off the over.
He and Tear added 46 runs from 45 balls earlier than Johnson top-edged a sweep off Matt Critchley. And wrist-spinner Critchley struck once more in his subsequent over when Tear chipped a supply straight again to him. He had hit seven fours and two sixes in his 72-ball 73.
Dan Ibraham maintained the momentum with 26 off 28 balls nevertheless it was a 99-run partnership between Leaning and the extra attacking Carson that arrange the win earlier than some late blows from Fynn Hudson-Prentice.
The Essex innings was constructed round a second wicket stand of 151 in 24 overs between Thain (102) and Tom Westley (81). However Essex may need anticipated a fair larger whole once they had been 152 for one on the midway stage of their innings.
The runs got here extra simply when the ball was onerous and the Sussex bowlers had been bowling extra boundary balls.
Sussex broke via in solely the second over when Hudson-Prentice had Luc Benkenstein, driving, caught by Jack Leaning at second slip. However that was the one pleasure for a while for a crowd of over 4,000.
However Thain ought to have gone when he had made solely three, when he edged the returning Ollie Robinson to Leaning, though it was a tougher probability than his first.
As a substitute Thain went on to make his first century for Essex at senior degree, his runs coming off 116 deliveries and together with 13 fours.
Westley, who scored a century in his solely earlier outing within the competitors this season, was actually the driving pressure as 65 got here off the primary ten overs, with a dozen fours, with the hundred arising within the 18th.
Westley, whose 81 got here from 71 deliveries with 12 fours and a six, was second out within the twenty sixth over when he pulled spinner Troy Henry to Ibrahim at quick midwicket.
After that the principle contribution got here from Critchley (a run a ball 64) because the Sussex bowlers – and there have been eight of them – cleverly blended up their bowling and pulled again the scoring fee. Seamer Toby Munt was typical of that, his first two overs going for 28 however his seven going for 55.
