LONDON, Sept 17: Sussex leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed took his 100th first-class wicket of the English county season on Wednesday, becoming the first player to reach the milestone since 1998.

The 33-year-old Mushtaq, who has played 50 Tests and 143 One-day Internationals for Pakistan, bowled Leicestershire’s Brad Hodge for 36 just before lunch at Hove, reducing the visitors to 111 for two on the opening day of the match.

Sussex need six points to clinch the county championship title for the first time in their history.

Courtney Walsh, the former Gloucestershire and West Indies fast bowler, took 106 wickets in 1998 and Andrew Caddick, the Somerset and England seamer, captured 105 victims in the same season.—Reuters