Sussex crashed to a 46-run loss in the NatWest T20 Blast as David Lloyd and Timm van der Gugten starred for Glamorgan tonight at the SWALEC.

Lloyd cracked 11 fours and two sixes in a brutal 55-ball 81 on a slow Cardiff pitch before van der Gugten ripped apart the Sussex top order with figures of 4-17, the pair helping Glamorgan extend their unbeaten run to seven Blast matches.

Lloyd has come of age for Glamorgan this season - following up his third first-class hundred of the season against the same opponents earlier this week with another outstanding innings.

He looked all set to pass his career-best T20 score of 97 not out, made versus Kent earlier this season, but he fell in the 17th over when mistiming a pull shot off Chris Jordan.

Lloyd shared decent partnerships with Colin Ingram and Jacques Rudolph, of 42 and 57 respectively, but he was the most impressive Glamorgan batsman by a distance.

The next highest score was 24 from Rudolph.

Rudolph had looked very well set in this innings before he drilled a ball from Nuwan Kulasekara to Luke Wright at cover.

Sri Lankan Kulasekera also removed Mark Wallace, Aneurin Donald and Graham Wagg to claim figures of 4-28 while England pacemen Jordan and Tymal Mills leaked only 26 and 23 runs respectively from four-over spells.

Therefore Glamorgan stumbled to a total of 159-8, but it ended up being more than enough as the impressive van der Gugten took three wickets in as many overs at the start of the Sussex innings to leave them 22-3 in the seventh over.

With the Sussex top-order gone, the run-rate just kept going up, but a 37-run partnership between Ross Taylor and Matt Machan gave Sussex some hope. But when both of those men fell within seven balls of each other, any feint hopes of an away win were gone and they were skittled for 113 in the penultimate over.