Chris Jordan hailed "a brilliant day" as Sussex homed in on a second successive win at Hove.

They took 14 wickets on the third day of their Championship match and forced unbeaten Worcestershire to follow on.

Replying to Sussex’s 579-8, Daryl Mitchell and Brett D’Oliveira put on 215 – a new first-wicket record for Worcestershire against Sussex – before they lost all ten wickets in 30 overs either side of lunch.

Bowled out for 312, they followed on 267 behind and Mitchell saw three partners depart at the other end, two of them to Chris Jordan, before he went just before the close for 54 as his side reached 124-4 at stumps, still 143 runs adrift.

D’Oliviera and Mitchell had few alarms for 14 overs until D’Oliveira was brilliantly held by the diving Jordan at slip.

Jordan then produced an excellent spell from the Sea End to have Tom Fell held at mid-on – one of several Worcestershire batsman who had struggled to play the short ball – before Clarke played on and lost his off stump.

Sussex claimed the key scalp of Mitchell six overs before the close when he shuffled across and was leg before to van Zyl for 54. Sussex will now fancy their chances of wrapping up their second win of the season tomorrow.

Jordan said: "It has been a brilliant day for us. Even when their openers were putting on 215 we created chances but once David Wiese got us the breakthrough with two quick wickets we never looked back.

"We just needed that bit of luck. With the bowlers we’ve got we knew we could get enough out of the wicket and run through them and that’s what happened.

"When they followed on it was pretty similar and to get Daryl Mitchell out again just before the close was very important. It has given us an end to attack and hopefully we can carry on the good work and finish them off tomorrow."