County Championship: Shubman Gill leads Glamorgan charge against Sussex

India's Shubman Gill is playing the third and final match of a short-term contract with Glamorgan

India's Shubman Gill raced to a classy 91 not out as promotion-chasing Glamorgan rattled up 221-3 against Sussex on a rain-affected first day in Hove.

Gill took the attack to the bowlers as Glamorgan did their best to make up for lost time.

Captain David Lloyd smashed a quick 56 to set the early tempo.

Brad Currie, with 2-54, was the pick of a struggling Sussex seam attack on a blustery autumnal day.

Lloyd chose to bat and quickly went on the offensive, adding 49 for the first wicket inside nine overs with Eddie Byrom before the left-hander, on 21, feathered an edge through to teenage keeper Charlie Tear off Currie.

Sussex, apart from Currie, were unable to find consistent lines although Lloyd was dropped at slip on 19, going on to smash Sean Hunt for successive sixes to reach his half-century off 49 balls.

Hunt had his revenge by trapping Lloyd lbw, but Gill picked up the pace between interruptions as he timed his shots beautifully in the gloomy conditions.

Sam Northeast, on 13, edged Currie low to slip but Gill dominated a stand of 70 with Billy Root (17 not out), upper-cutting Faheem Ashraf for a remarkable six just before the weather closed in.

• Glamorgan have called a members' forum on 18 October to discuss the recommendations of the Strauss report, which includes suggestions to cut the amount of county cricket played.

• The proposals have already been dismissed as "unworkable" by Sussex chair Jon Filby.

Glamorgan captain David Lloyd told BBC Sport Wales:

"Overall it was a very good day, we played positively and hopefully we can start again positively. Losing overs wasn't ideal but hopefully we'll have more overs over the next couple of days and we can build on what we've started.

"We play well when we take on the bowling attack, we didn't intentionally go out and think we had to score at a good rate, it just happened.

"The way Shubman batted was excellent, especially for someone so young (23), he's got a bright future ahead of him and he makes the game look so easy.

"We'll try to get as many as we can, we've got to get ourselves back in but if we bat positively, we'll see where we are before tea."

Sussex bowler Brad Currie told BBC Sussex Sport:

"We need a bit of control and consistency, we shouldn't be going at the run-rate we've going, it's something we're trying to rectify but there is a bit in the wicket for us.

"We've got to come out and fight hard to get Gill's wicket, but their batting line-up goes pretty deep so we need to take a couple early and keep them down to 350 before batting long.

"There's a bit of swing, a bit of nip, we should have got more out of the wicket than we did but we were a bit unlucky and had a few dropped catches. Glamorgan are well-placed but there's no reason why we can't peg them back."