Leaning struck just two fours in reaching fifty but hit a six in the penultimate over to set up victory. He and Tear added 46 runs from 45 balls before Johnson top-edged a sweep off Matt Critchley. And wrist-spinner Critchley struck again in his next over when Tear chipped a delivery straight back to him. The runs came more easily when the ball was hard and the Sussex bowlers were bowling more boundary balls. Sussex broke through in only the second over when Hudson-Prentice had Luc Benkenstein, driving, caught by Jack Leaning at second slip.