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 seven runs
The wicket opened the floodgates for Durham and Potts as the England seamer tore through the lower order to secure the four remaining wickets, ending with figures of 5 for 65 and allowing the hosts to claim maximum points from the fixture. As a result, Durham extended their lead at the top of Division Two, while Derbyshire sit bottom.
After losing 15 wickets on day two, Derbyshire skipper Leus du Plooy insisted his side needed to show fight, and Lamb and Reece defied the Durham attack with a solid approach in the morning session. Lamb cleared the rope twice amid short bowling from the hosts as he worked his way towards his half-century for the ninth time in his first-class career.
Durham could not halt the run rate and the Derybshire batters whittled down the deficit to 69 at the lunch break. Lamb was positioned 13 runs shy of his century before lunch, but quickly added two further boundaries to put himself on the brink 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 became two when Zak Chappell got himself in an almighty tangle attempting to play a short ball from Potts and somehow deflected the ball onto his stumps. Potts’ aggression with the short ball tormented the Derbyshire lower order as Mark Watt took several blows to the body before he eventually fended the ball to Graham Clark.
The Potts-Clark combination was at work again as Sam Conners fell for a first-ball duck to allow Durham to close in on victory. Reece reached fifty for the second time in the game, but was again left stranded as Potts ensured that his home side would not have to bat again, castling Ben Aitchison to secure his seventh five-wicket haul in first-class cricket.
Source: ESPN Crickinfo