Kirtley perishes

Sussex 137 for 4 (71 overs). Hodd 31, Hopkinson 1.

Kirtley, having just swept Botha just short of deep square leg, tried to force the same bowler off the back foot and the an arm-ball traps him lbw for 11.

Rankin has replaced Woakes at the Cromwell Road End.

In perhaps a rather ominous portent of things to come, the number of journalists in the press-box today is...1. Bruce of the Brighton Argus is up in Cumbria, of course. The nationals just haven't bothered.