Batting first, Derbyshire made 299. Tyler McGladdery, a left hander from Rainhill CC at Prescot making 77 and his clubmate Sam Kershaw making 38. Nils Priestley made the same score and there was a handy 39 for Zimbabwean Donald Butchart, son of former Zimbabwe International Iain.
Yorkshire responded with 207, with three wickets each for former Lancashire seamer Ed Moulton and Mattie McKiernan and two each for Ben Aitchison and Anuj Dal. Pillans top scored with 44, while there were twenties for Duke, Tattersall and Fraine.
With a lead of 92, Derbyshire quickly lost McGladdery and Kershaw, but Tom Wood, with an unbeaten 67, saw it to the close with Alex Hughes, closing on 113-2 and a lead of 205.
With two days to go there should be a positive result here. How nice would it be to see one of the players who could do with a performance come up with the goods?
And now Glamorgan, a county who I see as very similar to ourselves have just won the Royal London cup. Just shows how far ahead of us they are now, a team who know how to recruit well with a very similar budget to ours I'd guess. So much work to do at Derbyshire starting with a clear out of management please
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