Harris bags five in nailbiting win

Warwickshire 375 and 140 defeated Sussex246 and 256 by 13 runs
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Warwickshire pulled off a nailbiting 13-run victory against Sussex at Edgbaston to rein back the visitors' title hopes. Paul Harris took 5 for 73 to help the home side to the win.

Sussex resumed on the final morning needing 80 runs with six wickets in hand, but they were in immediate trouble when, before they had added even a run to their overnight score, they lost Murray Goodwin for just 8 courtesy of Harris.

Soon afterwards James Anyon dismissed Matt Prior to swing the momentum Warwickshire's way (196 for 6). Yasir Arafat and Robin Martin-Jenkins kept Sussex well in the hunt, though, adding 44 for the seventh wicket before Neil Carter got in on the act with the crucial wicket of Arafat, who made 23.

Martin-Jenkins followed shortly after, to Harris, whose tail was well and truly up and by this time the nerves were creeping in for Sussex. Mushtaq Ahmed then made it five wickets for Harris, when he was bowled for 8 and by this time Sussex needed 20 runs from their last partnership.

James Kirtley and Jason Lewry added a further nine runs but Carter took his second - and most important - wicket in dismissing Lewry for 3 to leave Sussex 13 runs adrift and keep Lancashire top of the table.