England's Potts takes 9-68 as Durham thrash Lancs

Vitality County Championship Division One, Chester-le-Street (day four)

Lancashire 228 & 282: Hurst 67, Bohannon 56; Potts 9-68

Durham 573-9 dec: Bedingham 279, Ackermann 186; Wells 4-69

Durham (24pts) hit Lancashire (1 pt) by an innings and 63 runs

Match scorecard

Durham’s Matthew Potts took a career-best 9-68 to thief his broadside complete their innings and 63-run thrashing of Lancashire successful nan County Championship lucifer astatine The Riverside.

Resuming connected 155-4 and needing different 190 runs to debar their 4th innings conclusion of nan season, Lancashire mislaid their past six wickets successful little than a convention and were bowled retired for 282.

The only shred of comfortableness for nan visitors was offered by 20-year-old Matty Hurst, who made 67, his 2nd 50 of nan lucifer and 5th half-century of nan season.

At 1 shape of his devastating spell, Potts was connected a hat-trick but had to settee for 3 wickets successful 4 balls erstwhile Tom Bailey nicked his 2nd transportation to Scott Borthwick astatine first slip.

He ended nan crippled erstwhile he had Anderson Phillip limb earlier wicket to complete a lucifer return of 12-126.

Lancashire’' illness began erstwhile George Balderson was limb earlier wicket to Potts for 16 but it really moved into apical cogwheel astir half an hr later erstwhile Venkatesh Iyer played connected to nan Durham accelerated bowler and Tom Hartley instantly mislaid his disconnected stump erstwhile not attempting a stroke.

Bailey prevented nan hat-trick but nicked his 2nd shot from Potts to Borthwick to time off yet different Lancashire innings successful tatters connected 195-8.

Hurst and Philip delayed Durham for a fewer overs but Borthwick's bowlers were not to beryllium denied. Hurst hooked Potts to agelong limb wherever Callum Parkinson took an fantabulous tumbling drawback a fewer inches from nan bound rope.

The crippled ended erstwhile Potts was recalled and dismissed Phillip for 41. Last man Tom Aspinwall vanished unbeaten connected 26.

Durham return 24 points from nan game, efficaciously ending immoderate lingering fears of relegation, whereas Lancashire return 1 point, a return which keeps them successful ninth spot successful Division One.