LONDON, May 12: Pakistan’s duo of leg spinner Mushtaq Ahmad and medium pacer Rana Navedul Hasan bowled Sussex to a comfortable 41 runs victory at Hove in the English County Championship Division One match on Thursday.

Mushtaq Ahmad spun out six batsmen for 72 in Nottinghamshire’s first innings and Naved claimed four wickets for 29 in the second innings as Nottinghamshire were bowled out for 120 while chasing a target of 161 for victory.

Scores on Thursday:

County Championship

Division One

At Riverside

Durham 348 (J Maher 106, P Mustard 78, C Silverwood 4-88) / 80-2 v Middlesex 242 (O Shah 68, G Onions 4-82)

At Canterbury

Yorkshire 382 (D Lehmann 193, C White 79, D Stevens 4-36, S Cook 4-67) v Kent 196-3 (R Key 81, D Fulton 75)

At Hove

Sussex 143 / 247 (C Hopkinson 74, M Ealham 4-29, G Swann 4-114) v Nottinghamshire 229 (M Ealham 52, Mushtaq Ahmed 6-72) / 120 (Naved-ul-Hasan 4-29)

Sussex (17pts) bt Nottinghamshire (4pts) by 41 runs

At Edgbaston

Hampshire 405 (M Carberry 102, J Crawley 96, N Pothas 67 no, A Loudon 5-109, D Brown 4-97) / 218-6 dec (J Adams 85) v Warwickshire 217 (J Troughton 103, S Warne 5-52) / 69-2

Division Two

At Bristol

Northamptonshire 219 / 114 (J Lewis 5-36) v Gloucestershire 232 (I Harvey 102 no, W Weston 54, J Brown 4-39) / 8-1

At Taunton

Somerset 471 (K Parsons 153, P Trego 102, J Hildreth 57) v Essex 282-3 (R Irani 108 no, A Flower 104 no)

At New Road

Derbyshire 338 (G Welch 94, D Pipe 57, M Di Venuto 56, Z Khan 6-60) / 68-2 v Worcestershire 278 (V Solanki 110, I Hunter 4-92)

At Grace Road

Leicestershire 525 (D Mongia 161, J Sadler 77, J Maunders 71, P Nixon 70 no) v Glamorgan 297 (M Powell 73, D Cherry 66, C Henderson 4-77) / 37-1.—AFP