By Jon Steer
May 27 2003

Durham won the toss and batted, passing 300 for the first time this season all was looking good and when the bowlers removed Derbyshire for 244 it looked even better. Durham made life difficult by only scoring 149 in their 2nd innings but a fine bowling performance saw us home.

Durham 1st innings		Runs	Mins	Balls	4s	6s
JJB Lewis (c)	b Wharton	52	176	152	9	0
MA Gough	c Sutton b Mohammad Ali	12	44	32	2	0
ML Love	c Cork b Welch	54	121	103	10	0
GJ Muchall	b Welch	0	0	1	0	0
GJ Pratt	lbw b Welch	62	137	100	8	0
VJ Wells	c Gait b Dean	61	204	170	8	0
DR Law	c Wharton b Mohammad Ali	3	22	11	0	0
A Pratt (wk)	c Di Venuto b Dean	5	62	41	0	0
NC Phillips	b Dean	15	20	17	3	0
N Killeen	not out	0	7	3	0	0
D Pretorius	b Dean	0	1	3	0	0
Extras	(lb 29, w 1, nb 23)	53
Total	(all out, 103.4 overs)	317

Fall of Wickets:
1-34 (Gough), 2-137 (Love), 3-137 (Muchall), 4-137 (Lewis), 5-263 (GJ Pratt), 6-279 (Law), 7-301 (Wells), 8-312 (A Pratt), 9-317 (Phillips), 10-317 (Pretorius).

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Cork	19	2	65	0
Dean	20.4	11	41	4
Welch	21	10	53	3
Mohammad Ali	14	2	49	2
Shahid Afridi	10	2	27	0
Wharton	16	3	48	1
Di Venuto	3	0	5	0

Derbyshire 1st innings		Runs	Mins	Balls	4s	6s
AI Gait	c A Pratt b Killeen	5	13	18	1	0
MJ Di Venuto	lbw b Law	150	314	225	24	0
SA Selwood	c A Pratt b Pretorius	20	52	29	4	0
DR Hewson	b Pretorius	9	20	22	2	0
LD Sutton (wk)	b Phillips	9	59	56	0	0
Shahid Afridi	c GJ Pratt b Phillips	0	0	2	0	0
DG Cork (c)	c Love b Phillips	0	24	13	0	0
G Welch	c Wells b Pretorius	20	35	29	3	1
Mohammad Ali	c Lewis b Pretorius	1	14	14	0	0
KJ Dean	run out	15	67	56	1	0
LJ Wharton	not out	0	8	6	0	0
Extras	(b 2, lb 2, nb 11)	15
Total	(all out, 77.3 overs)	244

Fall of Wickets:
1-11 (Gait), 2-81 (Selwood), 3-97 (Hewson), 4-130 (Sutton), 5-130 (Shahid Afridi), 6-131 (Cork), 7-174 (Welch), 8-182 (Mohammad Ali), 9-236 (Dean), 10-244 (Di Venuto).

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Pretorius	17	2	96	4
Killeen	20	5	49	1
Law	9.3	1	35	1
Phillips	31	8	60	3

Durham 2nd innings		Runs	Mins	Balls	4s	6s
JJB Lewis (c)	b Welch	32	118	94	5	0
MA Gough	c sub b Dean	17	43	36	2	0
ML Love	c Wharton b Mohammad Ali	41	128	101	7	0
GJ Muchall	c Selwood b Mohammad Ali	9	66	39	2	0
GJ Pratt	c Sutton b Welch	2	7	5	0	0
VJ Wells	c Cork b Welch	15	83	46	3	0
DR Law	b Cork	7	45	40	0	0
A Pratt (wk)	lbw b Cork	3	14	15	0	0
NC Phillips	c Wharton b Welch	4	23	22	0	0
N Killeen	lbw b Welch	0	0	1	0	0
D Pretorius	not out	1	7	3	0	0
Extras	(lb 14, nb 4)	18
Total	(all out, 66.4 overs)	149

Fall of Wickets:
1-22 (Gough), 2-70 (Lewis), 3-106 (Love), 4-108 (GJ Pratt), 5-110 (Muchall), 6-132 (Law), 7-136 (A Pratt), 8-146 (Wells), 9-146 (Killeen), 10-149 (Phillips).

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Cork	23	8	49	2
Dean	10	5	19	1
Welch	26.4	5	60	5
Wharton	3	1	5	0
Mohammad Ali	4	3	2	2

Derbyshire 2nd innings (target: 223 runs)		Runs	Mins	Balls	4s	6s
MJ Di Venuto	lbw b Pretorius	4	2	5	1	0
Shahid Afridi	c Phillips b Wells	67	68	47	7	4
SA Selwood	c Love b Wells	8	28	16	1	0
DR Hewson	c Love b Wells	10	8	11	2	0
LD Sutton (wk)	c A Pratt b Law	10	66	55	1	0
DG Cork (c)	c A Pratt b Pretorius	52	122	53	5	3
AI Gait	b Phillips	10	49	19	2	0
KJ Dean	c A Pratt b Phillips	1	22	15	0	0
G Welch	not out	23	163	27	1	1
Mohammad Ali	c Love b Pretorius	4	122	12	0	0
LJ Wharton	c Gough b Pretorius	1	33	6	0	0
Extras	(lb 1, w 1)	2
Total	(all out, 44.2 overs)	192

Fall of Wickets:
1-4 (Di Venuto), 2-49 (Selwood), 3-61 (Hewson), 4-92 (Shahid Afridi), 5-130 (Sutton), 6-151 (Gait), 7-164 (Dean), 8-164 (Cork), 9-172 (Mohammad Ali), 10-192 (Wharton).

Bowler	O	M	R	W
Pretorius	12.2	1	49	4
Killeen	9	1	60	0
Wells	6	1	13	3
Phillips	13	0	49	2
Law	4	0	20	1