Matthew Potts five-for leads Durham to dominant win over Derbyshire
Durham 452 for 9 dec (Carse 108*) beat Derbyshire 165 (Reece 56*, Raine 3-19, Potts 3-51) and 280 (Lamb 99, Reece 66*, Potts 5-65, Raine 3-60) by an innings and 7 runs
Matthew Potts skittled Derbyshire’s decrease order with a five-wicket haul to permit Durham to assert a dominant victory by an innings and 7 runs of their LV= Insurance County Championship Division Two conflict at Seat Unique Riverside.
Derbyshire halted Durham’s push for victory within the morning session of day three as Matthew Lamb and Luis Reece placed on 149 for the sixth wicket. Lamb fell agonisingly wanting a century when he was pinned lbw by Ben Raine for 99.
The wicket opened the floodgates for Durham and Potts because the England seamer tore by means of the decrease order to safe the 4 remaining wickets, ending with figures of 5 for 65 and permitting the hosts to assert most factors from the fixture. As a outcome, Durham prolonged their lead on the high of Division Two, whereas Derbyshire sit backside.
After shedding 15 wickets on day two, Derbyshire skipper Leus du Plooy insisted his facet wanted to point out battle, and Lamb and Reece defied the Durham assault with a strong method within the morning session. Lamb cleared the rope twice amid brief bowling from the hosts as he labored his means in direction of his half-century for the ninth time in his first-class profession.
Durham couldn’t halt the run charge and the Derybshire batters whittled down the deficit to 69 on the lunch break. Lamb was positioned 13 runs shy of his century earlier than lunch, however rapidly added two additional boundaries to place himself on the point of a deserved hundred. However, Lamb was denied three figures as Raine pinned the right-hander lbw and sparked the collapse in Derbyshire’s rearguard.
One wicket grew to become two when Zak Chappell obtained himself in an almighty tangle trying to play a brief ball from Potts and one way or the other deflected the ball onto his stumps. Potts’ aggression with the brief ball tormented the Derbyshire decrease order as Mark Watt took a number of blows to the physique earlier than he finally fended the ball to Graham Clark.
The Potts-Clark mixture was at work once more as Sam Conners fell for a first-ball duck to permit Durham to shut in on victory. Reece reached fifty for the second time within the sport, however was once more left stranded as Potts ensured that his house facet wouldn’t should bat once more, castling Ben Aitchison to safe his seventh five-wicket haul in first-class cricket.