Northants beat Derbyshire to end winless run

Rob Keogh has taken 20 wickets and scored 390 runs in the 2024 Championship

Vitality County Championship Division Two, Northampton (day three)

Northamptonshire 219 & 211: Keogh 63; Andersson 3-23, Morley 3-69

Derbyshire 165 & 132: Madsen 48*; Keogh 5-44, Chahal 4-54

Northants (19 pts) beat Derbyshire (3 pts) by 133 runs

Match scorecard

Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal starred with career-best match figures of 9-99 as he bowled Northamptonshire to their first County Championship victory of the season inside three days against Derbyshire.

The experienced India white-ball international followed up his five-wicket tally from the first innings with 4-54 to demolish Derbyshire for just 132 second time around at Wantage Road.

Chahal plugged away in tandem with off-spinner Rob Keogh, who took 5-45 - and a season's best of 8-110 in the match - through most of the final session after the entire afternoon had been lost to rain.

The visitors, whose defeat keeps them at the foot of Division Two, never looked likely to mount a convincing challenge to their target of 266 despite bowling Northamptonshire out for 211 earlier in the day.

Resuming their second innings on 178-5, the home side managed to stretch that total by a further 33, with Keogh completing his third half-century of the season before he was last man out for 63.

Derbyshire spinner Jack Morley (3- 69) extracted some turn, having both Justin Broad and Ben Sanderson caught at slip before Martin Andersson sent Dom Leech's middle stump flying.

Andersson finished off the innings with figures of 3-23 after bowling Keogh around his legs, leaving Derbyshire to chase 266 - and they stumbled to 26-2 during the 40 minutes before rain arrived.

Harry Came was first to depart as Broad brought one back to trap him lbw and Brooke Guest was foxed by the final ball of the session from Chahal.

Rain prompted an early lunch interval and a further heavy shower put paid to the afternoon session.

Chahal accounted for Luis Reece soon after the resumption - and he might also have removed Wayne Madsen with an edge that eluded the slip fielder.

Madsen's presence in the middle became ever more vital for the visitors as sharp glovework by Lewis McManus, stumping David Lloyd and then snapping up a leg-side catch off Keogh to dismiss the dangerous Aneurin Donald, plunged them into deeper trouble.

Andersson was bowled swinging across the line at Chahal, while Keogh removed Zak Chappell lbw before Alex Thomson and Harry Moore were caught close in.

Morley held Northamptonshire up for almost five overs before he was bowled sweeping at Keogh, who completed his second five-for of the season against Derbyshire and left Madsen high and dry on 48 not out.

Report supplied by ECB Reporters' Network.