Bob Willis Trophy: Surrey spinner Daniel Moriarty takes 6-60 as Sussex collapse

Surrey spinner Daniel Moriarty has taken three five-wicket hauls in two first-class games

Spinners Dan Moriarity and Amar Virdi derailed Sussex's second innings by reducing them to 109-9 in a frenetic final session to bowl Surrey dramatically back into the final Bob Willis Trophy group fixture.

Moriarty took a career best 6-60 from 16 overs and Virdi 3-31 from 13 and it took a 40-run ninth-wicket partnership between ex-Surrey fast bowler Stuart Meaker and Jack Carson to rescue Sussex from the depths of 62-8.

Meaker remains on a fighting 32 not out, but Moriarty had Carson caught at slip three overs from stumps to leave Sussex with an overnight lead of 136.

Surrey will hope they are not chasing much more than 150 on a dry surface as they seek a first win following four South Group defeats, having earlier reached 388 in reply to Sussex's first-innings score of 415.

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It was a stand of 112 in 24 overs for the seventh wicket between Will Jacks and Jamie Overton which first rallied Surrey after they had initially slipped to 256-6, having resumed on 171-4.

Sussex still had a halfway lead of 27 but that soon did not seem much of an advantage when 20-year-old slow left-armer Moriarty took the new ball alongside Overton to send the first three Sussex batsmen packing.

Aaron Thomason even survived an edge to Rory Burns at slip before falling later in Moriarty's opening over when another delivery turned sharply for wicket-keeper Ben Foakes to pull off a smart stumping.

Tom Haines had just driven Moriarty for six in his third over when, to the very next ball, he advanced again but miscued an ill-judged push-drive high to Hashim Amla's right at mid-off, where the veteran former South Africa batsman made good ground to dive and hold a tremendous catch.

Moriarty, in the same over, then had Harry Finch held at slip and 31-3 soon became 58-6 when off-spinner Virdi, replacing Overton, struck three times in his first four overs to send back Ben Brown, Delray Rawlins and James Coles.

The 16-year-old debutant Coles, Sussex's youngest first-class cricketer, was dropped at second slip on one off Moriarty before, on 10, falling lbw to one from Virdi that scuttled into his pads.

Moriarty completed a maiden 10-wicket match haul, in just his second first-class game, by spinning one out of the rough to have left-hander George Garton lbw and then, in his next over, David Wiese lifted a drive straight to short extra cover.

Earlier, Jacks finished unbeaten on 84 from 119 balls, but Surrey's first innings ended in a flurry of wickets too as 19-year-old off-spinner Jack Carson took the last three scalps for career-best figures of 5-93 from 34.5 overs.

Overton, on his Surrey red-ball debut, made 55 from 78 balls with a six and eight fours before mis-hitting Wiese's medium pace to mid-on. And Surrey lost their last four wickets for 20 runs when Carson had James Taylor caught at long off for three before yorking Moriarty and having last man Virdi caught at short leg two balls later.

Sussex had also bowled well in the morning session, when Coles bowled Foakes for 39 with his 10th ball in first-class cricket. He was mobbed by his team-mates after producing a slow left-arm delivery which pitched on middle and took Foakes' off stump out of the ground as one of county cricket's most in-form batsmen pushed forward defensively and was beaten by the turn.

Rawlins had already struck an important blow for Sussex with his slow left-armers, claiming the prized wicket of Amla, lbw for 26.

Surrey spinner Dan Moriarty told BBC Radio London:

"I have opened the bowling quite a bit in white-ball cricket but not so much in red-ball, although I did it - with mixed results - in two Surrey second XI matches last summer when the conditions were conducive to spin.

"But being given the new ball like that with all the expectation it brings is a real privilege and one I really enjoyed.

"We learned quite a bit from our first innings, on that pitch. Both Amar and myself bowled at a better pace and we reaped the rewards. Obviously the new ball is hard and so you get a bit of extra bounce, especially in the first 15 overs. It was a great learning experience to be able to do that and to bowl in tandem with Amar.

Sussex off spinner Jack Carson:

"It was nice to get my first five-for out of the way and brilliant to do it at a great ground like The Oval.

"I also thought Henry Crocombe bowled brilliantly. We enjoy bowling together - as we have done quite a bit so far in this game.

"It will be difficult for them. We need to get as many more runs as we can, then concentrate on bowling our best ball as often as possible. It's taking spin and the new ball is particularly hard to bat against."

Report supplied by PA Media.