By Bruce Talbot

Patience: Will Beer was dismissed three runs short of what would have been a record hundred
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No luck: Gloucestershire debutant Chadd Sayers

TCP MATCH VERDICT
You could have heard the groan in Hove when Will Beer, after batting for nearly four sessions, fell agonisingly short of his maiden Championship hundred. Beer, for so long regarded as a white-ball specialist for Sussex, produced a masterclass in how to hang tough on a slow pitch after Sussex had been put in on a pitch which had sweated under covers for the previous 48 hours. By playing the she...