County Championship: Yorkshire beat Derbyshire to first win in 14 months

LV= County Championship Division Two, Chesterfield (day four) Derbyshire 111 & 453: Du Plooy 170, Ali 146; Fisher 3-70, Bess 3-190 Yorkshire 353 & 215-7: Masood 95*; Watt 4-74Yorkshire (22 pts) beat Derbyshire (3 pts) by three wickets Match scorecard

Shan Masood starred against his former county with an unbeaten 95 from 112 balls , while a run-a-ball 41 not out from Dom Bess helped bring the visitors home after Dawid Malan fell to the first ball of the day.

Resuming 147-6, Yorkshire needed 65 when Mark Watt took down Malan but Masood and Bess played with composure to share an eighth wicket from 68 from 82 balls to win a thrilling contest.

The odds had turned in Derbyshire's favor when Watt struck with the first ball in the morning. Malan tried to paddle sweep the left arm spinner but only managed to make a simple catch of short-legged Matt Lamb.

With the balls lying low, there was little room for error, but Bess eased some of the tension by sweeping Watt behind the square for four before Masood caressed Alex Thomson to the edge of the cover.

There were more cheers from the Yorkshire dressing room when Bess cut Watt for four and cut it through midwicket for three but there was a moment of visitor anxiety in the even over.

Masood was on 76 when he missed a sweep to Watt and umpire Chris Watts appeared to hold the call, but only waved the bowler off the field.

Bess drove Thomson through the covers for four more and when Zak Chappell replaced Watt at the Pavilion End, Masood took him on shot behind square to the ropes.

Watt moved to Lake End but the target was now below 20 years and Masood swept it to the middle boundary to move into the...