County Championship: Worcestershire set for giant first-innings lead towards Sussex

Cheteshwar Pujara has scored 6,713 runs in 95 Test matches for India

LV= County Championship Division Two, New Road, Worcester (day two)

Worcestershire 491: D’Oliveira 169*; Haines 3-50

Sussex 169-5: Pujara 85*; Leach 4-56

Sussex (2 pts) trail Worcestershire (4 pts) by 322 runs

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Worcestershire club captain Brett D’Oliveira continued his prolific start to the 2022 campaign with an unbeaten 169 on day two of the County Championship match with Sussex at New Road.

Then his predecessor as captain, Joe Leach, picked up three wickets in seven balls late in the day to put Worcestershire in control as the visitors, despite an unbeaten 85 from Cheteshwar Pujara, closed on 169-5.

All-rounder D’Oliveira batted for seven and three quarter hours in total and was the bedrock of his side’s 491 all out spanning 136.5 overs of this Division Two contest.

It means D’Oliveira is still to be dismissed this summer, with his three innings yielding 294 runs.

Leach then caused havoc late in the day with the…

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