Durham Dynamos simply cannot get going this season in the Norwich Union League. Yorkshire Phoenix won the only Division One match played today – Worcestershire Royals and Warwickshire Bears meet tomorrow because of the Bears' involvement at Lord's on Saturday – by 30 runs at Chester-le-Street, thanks to a good all-round batting display. Darren Lehmann top scored with 70 before off-spinner Richard Dawson took four wickets.

Chris Silverwood continues to play an important role as pinch-hitter. Going in at number three in the order, he smashed 58 from 32 balls with 11 fours and a six. With Lehmann's 70 coming from only 63 balls and Michael Lumb and Anthony McGrath both providing forties, the Phoenix total was an impressive 269 for five from their 45 overs.

It was a good job McGrath got some runs, for his two overs in the Dynamos' reply went for 22 – exactly the same analysis as produced by Gary Fellows. Gary Pratt was top scorer with 61, but he became one of Dawson's four victims as the England off-spinner brought some order to the attack as one of eight bowlers used and the Yorkshiremen won with a certain amount of ease.

In Division Two, Ed Giddins took five for 20 as Surrey Lions bowled out the Sussex Sharks for just 150 at The Oval. The only Shark with teeth was Robin Martin-Jenkins who scored exactly a third of the total. Otherwise the batting was unproductive against the bowler who learned his trade with Sussex. The Lions had slipped to 77 for four at one stage, but then Nadim Shahid with 50 and Adam Hollioake took the Lions home with an unbroken fifth wicket partnership that sealed the win by six wickets.

Derbyshire Scorpions' Stephen Stubbings was 98 not out as his side beat Lancashire Lightening by a healthy seven wicket margin at Derby. It was a very efficient bowling display by the Scorpions who stung Lancashire Lightening by keeping them to 174 for seven in their 45 overs. Stubbings had 12 fours and a six in his innings to secure yet another win for the Scorpions who move up to second place in the table, level on points with leaders Gloucestershire Gladiators.

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