Sussex v Middlesex: Steven Finn's best efforts to impress England selector eclipsed by team-mate Tim Murtagh Murtagh, though, looked capable of running through the opposition. Having produced a second ball beauty to lift and leave Chris Nash, he had figures of three for four from six overs at one stage with Joe Gatting and Murray Goodwin both falling to catches in the slip cordon. Someone needed to stop the rot - and opener Joyce, playing against his old county, did the job despite never quite looking at his best. With Ben Brown for company, 81 runs were added for the sixth wicket. It was Finn who broke the stand, although not in classical fashion. Joyce moved inside the line of a lifter but only glanced a catch behind, down the leg side, to end his hopes of a first century against Middlesex. Brown also fell in the seventies, edging a full and wide delivery to second slip following a break for rain to give Finn a third success.