Sussex promotion hopes are over as Warwickshire celebrate
The inevitable took a painfully long time to be confirmed.
Sussex began the final day of their last home County Championship match of 2018 knowing they needed a miracle - or unexpected generosity from Warwickshire - to save their hopes of getting back to the first division.
And miracles don't happen very often - not even in the county championship, a competition that throw up strange results and freak sequences of events more than most sporting contests.
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