Luke Wells respnded to the captaincy in design•Getty Images
He followed his 258 versus the exactsame challengers at Hove in May by making 122 in a overall of 346, to which Durham responded with 8 for one, Keaton Jennings’ unpleasant run continuing when he was lbw to Ollie Robinson off the last ball of the day.
On 37, Wells reached 1,000 champion runs for the veryfirst time, shrugging off the veryfirst ball termination of Harry Finch to share a second-wicket stand of 186 with Stiaan van Zyl.
Wells’ desire to bat on a bright earlymorning was vindicated as he picked to toss and was obligingly put in by Paul Collingwood.
There was much playing and missingouton as the ball nipped around in the veryfirst hour, with Rushworth and Graham Onions well supported by the pacy Brydon Carse in his 2nd look of the season.
The edges which avoided Durham then showedup when the 2nd brand-new ball was taken and the last 5 wickets went down for 18 runs in 6.3 overs. Out of the promo frame, Sussex handed chances to Laurie Evans and Phil Salt. But both fell to Jennings, who likewise strangled Wells down the leg side with an harmless ball and had figures of 5-0-22-3 at one phase.
Wells clattered anything brief and broad of off stump, as when he sculpted Carse over backwards point for the 4 which took him to 50 off 101 balls. He spedup to total his century off 178 balls by accepting a present from Rushworth, which