By Bruce Talbot

Skipper Leus du Plooy made a magnificent 128 but Derbyshire came up just short in their pursuit of a target of 380 in 58 overs to beat Sussex in the LV= Insurance County Championship at Hove.
Du Plooy’s third hundred of the summer means he is now the leading scorer in Division Two with 979 runs but when he was caught in the deep Derbyshire still needed 54 from 41 balls.
Anuj Dal and Alex Thomson kept going but they were both caught trying to clear the mid-wicket boundary. When Thomson was eighth out with 11 balls remaining Sussex fancied their chances of an unlikely win,...