Derbyshire v Durham: Match scores and report

Match scores (Chesterfield)

Durham win by six wickets

Derbyshire 1st inns: 368 (Critchley 102, Godleman 98, Madsen 54, Sandhu 46* Sandhu 36*; Potts 3-75, McCarthy 3-87)

Durham 1st inns: 301 (Coughlin 73*, Richardson 64, McCarthy 39, Burnham 35; Tahir 5-110)

Derbyshire 2nd inns: 214 (Hughes 108, Reece 37; Rushworth 2-29, Potts 2-31, McCarthy 2-38)

Durham 2nd inns: 285-4 (Burnham 93*, Pringle 62*, Richardson 62; Tahir 2-89, Qadri 2-91)

Day four report 

Jack Burnham and Ryan Pringle showed character as well as skill to take Durham to a six-wicket win in an absorbing Specsavers County Championship Division Two match against Derbyshire at Chesterfield.

The pair shared an unbroken stand of 127 as Durham chased down a fourth day target of 282 on a turning pitch against Imran Tahir and 16-year-old Hamidullah Qadri.

After Michael Richardson scored 62, Burnham made the most of two dropped catches to make an unbeaten 93 while Pringle, who finished the game with a six, ended on 62.

It was an impressive display of batting by the pair and Burnham admitted: "That's cricket, you get your ups and downs and today luck went my way a couple of times but I made the most of it and it was an outstanding win for the boys.

"It was a very good challenge against two very good spinners on a pitch which offered a lot but instead of sitting back and letting them bowl, we hit the bad balls and put them under pressure.

"It was a very good game of cricket and a tough four days which went back and forth. But we stuck it out and got the win."

Derbyshire had been favourites when the opening pair of Richardson and Cameron Steel walked out with another 246 needed on a pitch that was expected to take increasing turn.

Billy Godleman elected to start with his seamers, perhaps hoping for some swing in the steamy heat, but Tahir and Qadri were soon bowling in tandem, although there were few alarms for Richardson or Steel.

Richardson reached his second fifty of the game when he drove Qadri square for his eighth four but the teenager made the first breakthrough when Steel made room to cut and was caught behind.

When Richardson followed three overs later, taken at slip pushing at Tahir, Derbyshire had two ends open but Burnham and Graham Clark, who swung Qadri over midwicket for six, went in at lunch with 137 needed.

The pattern of the game had been for wickets to fall in clusters and Derbyshire's hopes soared at the start of the afternoon thanks to two superb slip catches by Wayne Madsen.

Clark edged a drive at Tahir and saw Madsen cling on diving to his right and then Paul Collingwood was taken one handed low down after he was undone by another good piece of bowling by Qadri.

At 158 for four, Derbyshire were in the match but Burnham and Pringle moved through the gears, with Burnham hitting three consecutive fours off Qadri before driving Matt Critchley for his second six.

Pringle finished it in style by lifting Tahir for a straight six and then driving Critchley for another maximum. 

Day three report

Alex Hughes ended a lean run with his first century of the season to give Derbyshire the edge on the third day of the Specsavers County Championship Division Two match against Durham at Chesterfield.

Hughes had scored only one fifty in the championship this summer but he found form at the right time, finishing on 108 out of 214 to set Durham 282 for victory on the final day.

Paul Coughlin had made an unbeaten 73 in Durham's first innings of 301 before he and Chris Rushworth blew away Derbyshire's top order but Hughes led a recovery and at the close, the visitors were 36 without loss with an intriguing fourth day in prospect.

Durham had started day three needing to limit Derbyshire's lead as much as possible and Coughlin and Barry McCarthy took their ninth wicket stand to 90 in 26 overs before Gurjit Sandhu wrapped up the innings with the second new ball by trapping McCarthy and Rushworth lbw in consecutive overs.

A lead of 67 was still a handy one on a pitch where the bounce was likely to become increasingly variable, but it was Durham who threatened to take control when Rushworth and Coughlin reduced the hosts to 31 for for three.

Rushworth struck with the third ball of the innings by having Ben Slater caught at slip and Coughlin found some late swing to pluck out Billy Godleman's off stump.

When Wayne Madsen edged Rushworth behind, Durham sensed the door was opening but Hughes, first with Luis Reece and then with Matt Critchley, closed it again.

Derbyshire's lead was past 150 when Reece was caught on the crease by Coughlin and Durham's inability to build sustained pressure allowed Hughes and Critchley to add 52 in 16 overs.

Hughes has struggled for runs this season but he found the right combination of watchfulness and aggression to ensure Durham's target would be a testing one.

Durham's inexperienced attack plugged away and they had another opportunity when three wickets fell in eight balls, one to a fine low catch at first slip by Paul Collingwood who, at 41, remains an outstanding fielder.

But just as he had in the first innings, Gurjit Sandhu frustrated his former colleagues as another 47 runs were added and Hughes deservedly completed the third century of his career with his 15th boundary before he failed to dispatch Ryan Pringle into the trees and was lbw.

Time was not a factor for Durham but the 17 overs before the close was potentially a defining passage in the game and Michael Richardson and Cameron Steel came through unscathed to reduce the target to a further 246 for victory.

Day two report

Imran Tahir raised Derbyshire's hopes of back-to-back victories by taking five wickets on his debut as Durham collapsed on the second day of the Specsavers County Championship Division Two match at Chesterfield.

The South African, who is playing for his sixth county, celebrated by sparking the decline that saw Durham lose four for 18 in 43 balls either side of tea before the visitors rallied to avoid the threat of following-on.

Derbyshire controlled the game for much of the day with Billy Godleman falling two short of a century as he and Gurjit Sandhu took their 10th-wicket stand to 102 before the home side were bowled out for 368.

Durham were going well at 119 for one but - after Jack Burnham played on to Tahir and 16-year-old off-spinner Hamidullah Qadri bowled Michael Richardson for 64 - the visitors crumbled.

Paul Coughlin, with an unbeaten 62, and Barry McCarthy guided Durham to 274 for eight, which leaves them 94 behind.

Derbyshire's first objective at the start of the day was to get to a fourth batting point, which was achieved after a 35-minute rain break with Godleman and Sandhu frustrating the bowlers for another 15 overs before Godleman was caught behind hooking at Coughlin.

Sandhu followed his unbeaten career-best 46 by taking the new ball but Richardson and Cameron Steel added 52 before a mix-up saw Steel run out for 21 in Tahir's first over.

The leg-spinner's second over gave no indication of what was to come as Richardson dispatched him for two fours before Burnham drove him over extra cover for six.

But when Burnham tried to whip a ball from off stump and chopped on, Durham's hopes of a decent reply faded as Qadri followed his record-breaking five wicket haul at Cardiff last week by beating Richardson in the flight.

Paul Collingwood was bowled pushing forward at Tahir in the first over after tea, Ryan Pringle was lbw playing back to one that swung in from Sandhu and Graham Clark was the sixth to go with Durham still 205 behind.

The threat of the follow-on loomed when Stuart Poynter sliced a drive to point and Tahir bowled Matthew Potts with the next ball but Coughlin and McCarthy denied Tahir to keep Durham in the contest. 

Day one report

Matt Critchley delivered another impressive application for all-rounder status when he marked his first Specsavers County Championship match of the season with a century in the Division Two clash with Durham.

The 20-year-old, who became Derbyshire's youngest centurion when he scored an unbeaten 137 against Northants at Derby two years ago, made 102 from 148 balls out of 332 for nine on day one at Chesterfield.

Wayne Madsen scored 54 and skipper Billy Godleman was not out 79 while 18-year-old seamer Matthew Potts took three wickets in his third first-class appearance.

Durham's day might have been different had they bowled more consistently and caught Madsen on one when he edged Chris Rushworth to third slip in the ninth over.

Rushworth had already trapped Luis Reece lbw with one that kept low and Madsen's wicket would have given them a chance of exposing a batting order weakened by the absence of Shiv Thakor and Gary Wilson with injuries.

Madsen, who needed lengthy treatment after he was struck on the left elbow by Paul Coughlin, batted for another 34 overs to establish a platform which Critchley and Godleman exploited with a fifth wicket stand of 99.

Critchley's timing and placement was impressive although Durham were guilty of giving him too much width as 18 fours in his hundred suggest.

A frustrating day for the visitors was compounded when the umpires reprieved Godleman on 10 after Graham Clark claimed a low catch at gully off Rushworth.

Godleman had dropped down to six in the order after feeling unwell and was in danger of being stranded short of his half-century when four wickets fell for only 25 runs after tea following Critchley's exit when he played across a ball from Potts.

But former Middlesex seamer Gurjit Sandhu emerged from an uncertain start to play soundly on his Derbyshire debut to help Godleman steer his side to a third batting point and easily passed his previous highest first-class score of eight in an unbroken last-wicket stand of 66 to make it the hosts' day.