County Championship: Matt Critchley stars again as Derbyshire build a decent lead over Worcestershire

Wayne Madsen helped Derbyshire's Matt Critchley celebrate only his third five-wicket haul for the county

Derbyshire all-rounder Matt Critchley kept up his cracking start to the season as he followed up his first-innings century and 5-67 with the ball to hit 84 against Worcestershire.

Critchley took two of the last three Pears wickets to fall as the visitors, 243-7 overnight, were bowled out for 305 to trail by 85 on first innings.

He then ended up top Derbyshire run scorer for a fourth straight innings.

Helped by 66 from Wayne Madsen, that propelled Derbyshire to reach 268-5.

Critchley, who hit half-centuries in both innings of last week's draw with Warwickshire at Edgbaston, just missed out on a second century in this game.

He was out late in the day, one of two rare victims for the wily old medium pace of former Pears skipper Daryl Mitchell.

But Critchley's innings still helped the hosts end day three with a lead of 353, with a declaration expected either overnight or early on day four.

Earlier West Indies fast bowler Alzarri Joseph weighed in with a useful 46 with the bat on his Pears debut.

In accordance with all the day's County Championship games up and down the country, play was halted for an hour and 20 minutes in mid-afternoon to mark Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh's funeral

Derbyshire all-rounder Matt Critchley:

"To pick up five wickets was obviously a nice feeling. I see bowling as my job and just enjoy batting as much as I can.

"I work hard on both and I want to influence the game every time I get involved but it was more pleasing to get a five-for. I get more satisfaction out of the wickets.

"It's still a pretty good wicket but when I first went out there was a bit of bounce and a few that scooted low so we can definitely take some heart from that."

Worcestershire captain Joe Leach:

"Much like the rest of this game we've had patches where we've been very good and patches where we've been pretty poor if we're honest.

"I'm happy with how we finished the day. To not have to face anything was encouraging from a game point of view, so mixed feelings to be honest.

"We bat a long way down and we are going to have to be at our best so it's going to a tough day. We're going to have to go through the cricketing cliches of getting through each over and each ball and see where that gets us."