Play was held up to the afternoon session, when it got underway Sussex won the toss and inserted Yorkshire. The visitors got off to a fine start when Lewry had Craig White caught by Montgomerie for 0 and things soon got much worse for Yorkshire, Naved sent back McGrath for 9 then Lewry struck again to send back Younus Khan for 1 to leave Yorkshire on 16 for 3. Naved was then back into the act forcing Rudolph to give a catch to keeper Hodd for 0, the Tykes in dire straights at 17 for 4. Joe Sayers hat battled away at the other end watching the carnage but he was then next to go, trapped lbw to Naved for 2 (44 balls) as Yorkshire slipped to 26 for 5. Brophy joined Adil Rashid and they put together the only partnership of note. Both players adopted a positive attitude and they put on 51 together before Martin-Jenkins nailed Rashid lbw for 22 (38 balls, 4 fours). 4 runs later and it was the end of Brophy for 30 (44 balls, 3 fours) falling to Mushtaq. Bresnan and Gillespie soon went reducing Yorkshire to 95 for 9. The last pair Amjal Shahzad and Deon Kruis put togther a valuable 44 before Kruis fell to Mushtaq for 17. Shahzad left unbeaten with the innings top score 32 (49 balls, 6 fours). Yorkshire all out for 139. All the Sussex bowlers came out with great credit; Naved 3 for 34, Mushtaq 3 for 40 and Martin-Jenkins 2 for 20.
In the eight over of the Sussex innings before the close they moved rapidly to 40 for 0.
