County Championship: Surrey still winless after draw with Sussex

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Spinner James Coles takes 5-108 as Sussex draw their Championship game with Surrey at Hove, with Dan Lawrence failing to add to his overnight 117.
Surrey are still looking for the first win of the season in the County Championship after their game with Sussex at Hove ended in a draw.

Their hopes of putting pressure on their hosts on the final day evaporated when they lost their last seven wickets for 100 runs in the morning session.

They still took a first-innings lead of 55 after being dismissed for 490, but Tom Haines followed his first-innings 174 with an unbeaten 69 and Dan Hughes contributed 49 to an unbroken first-wicket stand of 132.

Haines took his aggregate for the season to 449 and is averaging 89.8.

Surrey needed early wickets to put pressure back on Sussex but the openers wiped out the arrears in the 17th over, by which time the champions had to employ spin at both ends because of the poor light with skipper Rory Burns bowling three overs and Dom Sibley…
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