Derbyshire wrap up innings win over Kent

Luis Reece took two of the Kent wickets to fall on the final morning at Derby

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

Derbyshire 587-5 dec: Jewell 232, Madsen 100, Came 89, Lloyd 50, Reece 50

Kent 326 & 247 (f/o): Muyeye 55, Compton 49, Stewart 49; Reece 3-21

Derbyshire (23 pts) beat Kent (2 pts) by an innings and 14 runs

Match scorecard

Luis Reece led Derbyshire's victory charge as they rolled over Kent before lunch on the final day of the County Championship Division Two match at Derby.

The all-rounder picked up two wickets to claim outstanding figures of 3-21 from 10 overs as they beat the visitors by an innings and 14 runs

After Zak Chappell struck with the first ball of the day, Kent folded in feeble fashion, losing four wickets in eight overs, to slump to 247-9, with the injured Jake Ball unable to bat.

It was Derbyshire's second win of the season, taking them above Glamorgan to second in the table, while Kent have now lost four matches in a row.

Their slide to another defeat started when Tawanda Muyeye was caught behind taking on a short ball from Chappell.

Muyeye clearly thought it had come off his shoulder but given his side were still 104 runs behind with three wickets already down, it was not a great shot for the situation.

That was a straightforward catch for Brooke Guest but the wicketkeeper took a much sharper one five overs later standing up to Reece when Chris Benjamin pushed forward and edged into his gloves.

Kent's hopes of at least frustrating Derbyshire now rested with Jack Leaning and Harry Finch but the pair were quickly parted with Reece celebrating a second success of the morning.

Leaning failed to get over a drive and substitute fielder Nick Potts took a good tumbling catch diving forward at deep mid-off.

Derbyshire were now all over the visitors and in the next over, Finch went to turn Anuj Dal off his legs but the ball came off his thigh pad and onto the stumps.

Matt Parkinson had resisted well as nightwatchman in the first innings but this time he lasted only seven balls before he went half forward to Jack Morley and was lbw.

Grant Stewart struck some muscular blows, pulling Pat Brown for six, but the end came 15 minutes before the interval when he sliced the fast bowler to third man where Potts pulled off a superb diving catch.

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Derbyshire head of cricket Mickey Arthur:

"The boys were outstanding. I thought they did a fantastic job - from ball one we were on it.

"We threw the first punch and got big runs, and Kent were the team who played under pressure for the game.

"We want to have that winning mindset all the time and be a team that's hard to beat, and once you become that team the next step is winning, and winning is hard.

"Getting over that final hurdle is tough and we are still very much in that progressive phase but I'm really liking what I'm seeing and the attitude, the belief and the confidence that is coming out of the dressing room now is no end, so I'm very, very happy."

Kent head coach Adam Hollioake:

"We were behind the run of the game from the beginning. We didn't bowl well in the first hour and we know how important that is.

"And then scoreboard pressure, we weren't able to contain them and when a team gets 587 in the first innings they're not losing from there, so we were just trying to bat to save the game.

"It doesn't take a genius to work out that we're not batting well enough and not bowling well enough, so those are the things we are going to have to work on before we come back.

"We don't play another four-day game until the last week in June so we've got a bit of a break from them now."