Derbyshire beat Glamorgan for first home win in 1,803 days

Vitality County Championship Division Two, County Ground, Derby (day four)

Glamorgan 168: Chappell 6-47 & 287: Carlson 56, Ingram 53; Morley 3-46

Derbyshire 429: Dal 94, Came 84, Madsen 70; Crane 3-43, Kellaway 3-59 & 27-0

Derbyshire (23 pts) hit Glamorgan (3 pts) by 10 wickets

Match scorecard

Derbyshire raced to their first Championship triumph astatine nan County Ground for 1,803 days arsenic they hit Glamorgan by 10 wickets.

Glamorgan were bowled retired for 287 connected nan last morning, adding 61 for their past 3 wickets claimed by David Lloyd and Luis Reece.

With rainfall threatening, Derbyshire openers Reece and Harry Came knocked disconnected nan 27 needed successful 6.4 overs.

The Division Two strugglers had gone 26 matches astatine each venues without a red-ball triumph earlier Lloyd led his broadside to triumph complete his erstwhile county.

Reece, Wayne Madsen and Anuj Dal are nan only Derbyshire survivors from nan 181-run triumph complete Sussex successful September 2019, 3 UK premier ministers agone and earlier Covid had struck nan country.

It was a chastening comedown for nan Welsh side, who had won 7 retired of 8 One-Day Cup matches since nan melodramatic Championship necktie against Gloucestershire astatine Cheltenham.

But Derbyshire were connected nan beforehand ft almost passim aft Zak Chappell and Reece took six wickets successful bowler-friendly conditions successful nan first hour.

The visitors’ hopes of endurance virtually vanished erstwhile they mislaid 3 wickets without summation precocious connected time three.

Resuming connected 236-7, still 25 runs behind, Mason Crane and Dan Douthwaite battled difficult successful a guidelines of 47 earlier Lloyd made nan breakthrough pinch nan off-spin he has developed this season.

His first shot changeable successful almost unplayable manner and Crane was lbw for 20, pinch Reece wrapping up nan innings by having Fraser Sheat leg-before for 10 and bowling Douthwaite for 20 aft a agelong vigil.

With rainclouds nan only threat, Came deed 2 gentle deliveries from Glamorgan skipper Sam Northeast to nan bound to seal nan consequence to relieved applause from nan long-suffering location crowd.