Coles career-best as Sussex punish Glamorgan

Coles career-best as Sussex punish GlamorganImage source, ShutterstockImage caption, James Coles hit four County Championship hundreds last seasonPublished30 minutes ago3 CommentsRothesay County Championship, Division One, County Ground, Hove (day two)Glamorgan 155: Kellaway 33, Dickson 31; Unadkat 4-29 & 42-0Sussex 521: Coles 224*, Hughes 72, Haines 48; Norton 3-119 Glamorgan (2pts) trail Sussex (7pts) by 324 runs with 10 wickets standingMatch scorecardJames Coles made a magnificent career-best 224 not out as Sussex built a commanding position after two days against Glamorgan in the County Championship at Hove.The 22-year-old helped Sussex's last four wickets put on 232 in a total of 521, their highest of the season.Glamorgan went in again with a deficit of 358 but openers Asa Tribe and Zain ul-Hassan reached 42-0 in 12 overs before the close, including three from Dom Goodman, brought into the Sussex team as replacement for Henry Crocombe ,who has been called into England's squad for the second Test as cover for Sussex colleague Ollie Robinson (sore knee).Coles scored 1,032 runs with four hundreds in his debut Division One campaign in 2025 but came into the game with a modest 253 Championship runs in 12 innings. There was a hint that he was coming back into form when he made an unbeaten 63 for England Lions against South Africa A earlier this week and he struck 22 fours and took advantage of a short boundary to pepper the pavilion with the majority of his 11 sixes.Glamorgan must have hoped they could keep their first innings arrears down to manageable proportions when Tom Price was sixth out at 289 and the deficit 134.But Coles and the lower order had other ideas and a punishing last-wicket stand of 103 – a new record against Glamorgan - between Coles and Jaydev Unadkat, of which the number 11 contributed 12, only added to their pain.Coles timed the ball exquisitely from the start and he went to his 50 in the over before lunch by taking 15 off the oth...