da brdice： Worcestershire squandered a decent position on the first day of their County Championship match at Sussex despite a debut half-century from teenager Aneesh Kapil
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Worcestershire squandered a decent position on the first day of their County Championship match at Sussex despite a debut half-century from teenager Aneesh Kapil.The 18-year-old from Wolverhampton made an attractive 54 in his first four-daygame while skipper Daryl Mitchell and Moeen Ali also made half-centuries.When Kapil and Dutchman Alex Kervezee were adding 88 for the fifth wicketeither side of tea to take their side to 244 for 4, Sussex’s decision to bowlfirst looked a mistake. But the tide turned when Kervezee chanced his arm looking for a third run which would have taken him to 50 and was run out by Joe Gatting’s accurate returnrunning round from third man.Worcestershire collapsed, losing their last six wickets for 56 runs and werebowled out for 290. That left Sussex six overs to negotiate before stumps and Ed Joyce and Gatting, promoted to open in the absence of Chris Nash who is with England Lions,survived comfortably to close on 16 for none.Sussex had been hoping to exploit any early dampness in the wicket and theimmediate signs were good. Matt Pardoe feathered a catch behind when James Anyonseamed one away in his first over and then Vikram Solanki was beaten for paceand bowled for a duck by Anyon to leave Worcestershire six for two.Mitchell and Moeen rebuilt in an excellent stand of 143 in 43 overs. Moeen wasparticularly productive through the covers while his more pragmatic partneraccumulated steadily to blunt a Sussex side who used six bowlers before lunch insearch of another breakthrough.It finally came thanks to Monty Panesar, who bowled another long, probing spellwhich was rewarded with three wickets. Mitchell (66) was leg before aimingtowards mid-wicket and then Moeen (71) was surprised by a ball which spun backinto him and gave a catch to wicketkeeper Ben Brown.Kapil showed few nerves, top-edging a six when Anyon tried to test him againstthe short ball, and he reached his 50 with his fifth four. A pull off KirkWernars brought him a sixth boundary but he perished to a gully catch off thenext ball and was sixth out.Sussex then encountered little resistance from the tail. Panesar returned andimmediately had Gareth Andrew well taken by the diving Mike Yardy at slip.Anyon finished with four for 71 after picking up two wickets with the secondnew ball while Wayne Parnell had Saeed Ajmal well caught at third slip off aflat-footed waft outside off stump.
