Salisbury lifts Sussex off bottom
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After three dry months Sussex recorded a Championship victory to climb off the bottom of the table - thanks to five wickets from Ian Salisbury, the former England leg-spinner.
Worcestershire, who began the final day on 247 for 4, chasing a target of 424, put up a brave fight before going down by 73 runs. They were eventually dismissed around an hour after lunch for 348.
Salisbury took three of the last six wickets for 33 in 16 overs to finish with figures of 5 for 139 off 51.5 overs.
He trapped Vikram Solanki leg before and any real hopes Worcestershire had of winning the match disappeared when Phil Weston was lbw to Ed Giddins without adding to his Saturday score of 111.
At Bristol, Tim Hancock, playing only his second Championship game of the season, made the most of his luck to compile a patient half-century and steer Gloucestershire to a three-wicket win over Derbyshire.
The 23-year-old was dropped four times in his unbeaten 79 in his county's seventh Championship win.
Gloucestershire went into the final day 139 runs short of their 217 target with six wickets intact. Derbyshire struck an early blow when Mark Alleyne went leg before for 21 to Allan Warner.
When Andrew Symonds followed shortly afterwards on eight, as he popped up a catch to short mid-on, the visitors sensed a breakthrough. But the home captain Jack Russell steadied his team's nerves with a stubborn seventh- wicket stand of 85 with Hancock, to which he contributed 34.
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