Date-stamped : 16 May95 - 10:26
SUNLG: Derbyshire v Yorkshire, Chesterfield, 14 May 1995

Derbyshire cave in without fight - Neil Hallam

Yorks (167-7) bt Derbys (108) by 59 runs

FOR the fifth time in a week Derbyshire`s batting proved to be  a
house  of  straw  when  the  wolf  came to call, a combination of
inadequate technique and lurid misjudgment ensuring that the  168
target was well beyond them.

The lemming tendency apparent in  a  meagre  sequence  which  had
yielded  totals  of  120, 135, 140 and 134 in their four previous
innings was evident again as they subsided feebly for 104 to lose
by 59 runs with 7.2 overs to spare - their fourth defeat in seven
days.

There was some life in the Queen`s Park pitch for  those  bowlers
able  to  detect  the right length but nothing to excuse the ripe
sequence of misjudgments which began with Dominic Cork   miscuing
to square leg and Tim O`Gorman perishing with an airy waft on the
back foot. Chris Adams, having lured Kim Barnett into  the  first
of  three  run-outs, lofted the in-form Peter Hartley to the mid-
wicket boundary and Derbyshire were in  familiar  free-fall  mode
when  Phil DeFreitas fell fishing at a wide one and Colin Wells`s
failed to stifle a flighted ball from Paul Grayson.

Hartley, who had taken nine for 41 in the  previous  day`s  cham-
pionship win, ended with two for seven from six overs.

Yorkshire, having lost the toss, also began badly when David Byas
top-edged  a pull and were again in need of retrenchment when Al-
lan Warner broke through with a spell of three for five  in  four
overs.

Michael Bevan, Craig  White  and  Michael  Vaughan  all  followed
Warner`s  away  swing  and  Grayson forced to square cover before
Richard Blakey joined Darren Gough  to  take  the target   beyond
Derbyshire`s currently rather limited scope.

Source :: The Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk)
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