County Championship: Matthew Potts leads Durham to rounds victory over Derbyshire

LV= County Championship Division Two, Seat Unique Riverside, CLS (day three) Durham 452-Dec 9: Robinson 114, Carse 108*; Aitchison 3-131Derbyshire 165 & 280: Lamb 99, Reece 66*; Potts 5-65, Raine 3-60 pts) by one inning and seven pointsMatch scorecard

Derbyshire has stopped the hosts' push to victory in the morning session of day three as Matthew Lamb and Luis Reece made 149 runs for the sixth wicket. of a century when he was pinned lbw by Ben Raine for 99 and the wicket opened the floodgates for Durham and Potts.

The English designer crossed the lower order to secure the remaining four scalps, ending in numbers 5-65, allowing the hosts to claim the maximum points of the match.

As a result, Durham extended their lead at the top of the table, while their opponents are at the bottom after three games.

< p class="" data- reactid=".h681dpgqss.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7">Derbyshire skipper Leus du Plooy has insisted his side must fight back after losing 15 wickets on day two and Lamb and Reece defied Durham's attack with a solid approach in the morning session.

Lamb took cleared the rope twice as he headed towards his half-century for the ninth time in his premier class career.

Durham couldn't stop the pace and the Derbyshire batters cut the deficit to 69 by the lunch break.

Lamb had closed within 13 races of his century before lunch but quickly added two more limits to put himself on the verge of a deserved hundred.

However, he was denied in agony mode as Raine pinned the right-handed southpaw for 99.

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