DAVID Lloyd and Timm van der Gugten starred as Glamorgan continued their remarkable form in the NatWest T20 Blast with a 46-run victory over Sussex at the SSE 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 four for 17, the pair helping Glamorgan extend their unbeaten run to seven Blast matches.

They are now closing in on a place in the knockout stages for only the third time in the tournament.

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, who had dropped himself down to four in the order in a search for a return to form.

Rudolph had looked very well set in this innings, at one point hitting a massive six off Chris Nash that is now residing at the bottom of the River Taff. However, just when it appeared that he might make his first truly significant T20 contribution of 2016 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 four for 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 for eight, 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 for three 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.

With that partnership broken it became a procession of Sussex wickets as they were skittled for 113 in the penultimate over, with Michael Hogan, Craig Meschede and Graham Wagg each picking up two wickets.