Matthew Potts ensured Durham wouldn’t have to bat for a second timeLV= County Championship Division Two, Seat Distinctive Riverside, CLS (day three)Durham 452-9 dec: Robinson 114, Carse 108*; Aitchison 3-131Derbyshire 165 & 280: Lamb 99, Reece 66*; Potts 5-65, Raine 3-60Durham (24 pts) beat Derbyshire (3 pts) by an innings and 7 runsMatch scorecard

Matthew Potts skittled Derbyshire’s decrease order with a five-wicket haul to permit Durham to say victory by an innings and 7 runs of their County Championship Division Two match at Chester-le-Road.

Derbyshire halted the hosts’ push for victory within the morning session of day three as Matthew Lamb and Luis Reece placed on 149 runs for the sixth wicket.

Lamb fell agonisingly in need of a century when he was pinned lbw by Ben Raine for 99 and the wicket opened the floodgates for Durham and Potts.

The England seamer tore by means of the decrease order to safe the 4 remaining scalps, ending with figures of 5-65, permitting the hosts to say most factors from the fixture.

Consequently, Durham prolonged their lead on the high of the desk, whereas their opponents sit backside after three video games.

Derbyshire skipper Leus du Plooy insisted that his facet wanted to indicate combat after dropping 15 wickets on day two and Lamb and Reece defied the Durham assault with a stable strategy within the morning session.

Lamb cleared the rope twice as he labored his manner in the direction of his half-century for the ninth time in his first-class profession.

Durham couldn’t halt the run-rate and the Derbyshire batters whittled down the deficit to 69 on the lunch break.

Lamb had closed to inside 13 runs of his century earlier than lunch however shortly added two additional boundaries to place himself getting ready to a deserved hundred.

Nevertheless, it was denied in agonising style as Raine pinned the right-hander lbw for 99.

One wicket grew to become two when Zak Chappell acquired himself in a tangle making an attempt to play a brief ball from Potts and one way or the other deflected the ball on to his stumps.

Potts’ aggression with the brief…

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