Surrey completed their first County Championship win of the season with a comprehensive eight-wicket victory over Sussex at the Kia Oval.
They were made to work hard for their 22 points, with Charlie Tear, Jack Carson and Sussex captain Ollie Robinson all making defiant runs on day four.
Starting the final day still 188 runs adrift on 76-4 in their second innings, Sussex were eventually bowled out for 277 in 85 overs, with Surrey needing the second new ball to finish the job.
That left Surrey requiring just 14 in their second innings, achieved in four overs immediately after tea, although not before both Rory Burns and Ryan Patel fell leg-before to the fourth and sixth balls of the second over from James Coles.
Left-arm spinner Coles looked fortunate to win his appeal against a sweeping Burns, on one, but Patel was plumb in front and that left Dom Sibley and Ollie Pope to knock off the remaining runs.
The 21-year-old Tear made a career-best 61, his second half-century in four first-class appearances, while Carson scored 48 and Robinson 42.
Sussex opener Tom Haines, who had retired hurt after being struck in the helmet grille by Matt Fisher’s first ball of the innings on the previous day, returned at the fall of the eighth wicket to offer further brave resistance with an unbeaten 20.
Haines, who passed concussion checks overnight, joined Robinson to ensure Surrey were made to bat again, the pair added a further 35 either side of the new ball being taken at 258-8 from 80 overs.
Robinson, however, fell in the 84th over, thin-edging behind off Jordan Clark, and the innings soon ended with number 11 Henry Crocombe leg-before to Fisher for four.
Clark took 3-40 and Fisher 3-52, and the result means that Surrey, after three high-scoring draws, have put their sluggish start to the campaign behind them, while Sussex suffer a first defeat.
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