Derbyshire reached their target after 70 minutes play
Lunch update
The current round of Championship matches has seen four out of five games staged at popular out-grounds and traditional Festival venues including Cheltenham College, Horsham, Scarborough and Guildford, with most of these pretty venues having marquees festooned with bunting, as well as spectators sat in deck-chairs or temporary seating. The one exception to venues in the fixture schedule has been here, amongst the brick and mortar of the County Ground in Derby where, had all the catches in the Derbyshire slip cordon been held, the likelihood is that this contest might have been completed inside two days.
After Mark Footitt's career-best spell yesterday of 6/48, and one which saw the left-armer receive his county cap at the end of the game, Derbyshire began this morning on 13/1 needing just a further 60 runs to register their third Championship victory of the summer. James Harris began with a maiden before Ben Slater played a pair of fluent drives through the leg-side to get the scoreboard moving.
Slater then drove Harris to the ropes at mid-off whilst Madsen twice worked rising balls from Michael Hogan inside the leg-side before punching Harris through mid-off for three. The hone captain then pulled Hogan to mid-wicket for four, but in attempting to repeat the stroke later in the over, Madsen top-edged the ball with Murray Goodwin completing a diving catch running in from fine-leg. Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who also received his county cap, at the end of the game, then joined Slater and after fending off another sharply rising ball from Will Owen, he got off the mark with a push drive mid-on.
Slater then on-drove Owen for four, before Chanderpaul swept Dean Cosker for four, but later in the spinner's opening over he induced an outside edge from Slater's bat which Mark Wallace safely pouched as Derbyshire lost their third wicket on 58. Wes Durston duly joined the West Indian veteran but their partnership was very brief as in Owen's next over the Glamorgan wicket-keeper took a superb diving catch one-handed down the leg-side with the Peakites on 60/4. Alex Hughes then joined Durston who after a series of singles pulled Owen for four and two as Derbyshire reached their target as the contest ended at 12.10pm.
