Comeback kid Shahzad blows away Worcs
Ajmal Shahzad claimed his best first-class figures and what was, remarkably, only the fourth five-for of his career as Sussex rounded up Worcestershire on the final day
Ajmal Shahzad claimed his best first-class figures and what was, remarkably, only the fourth five-for of his career as Sussex rounded up Worcestershire on the final day
The spectre of Saeed Ajmal loomed over Worcestershire's return to Division One. Last year Essex coach Paul Grayson said that if umpires had been "brave" enough to call Ajmal for an illegal action Worcestershire would not have been promoted.
Richard Oliver's second first-class hundred and aggressive half-centuries from Alexei Kervezee and Gareth Andrew led an impressive Worcestershire response on the second day against Sussex
If supporters huddled at Hove in the expectation was of a genteel day of cricket, Matt Machan provided Hove with something rather more scintillating - a 70-ball hundred