Brooke Guest scored his first century in nearly three years as Derbyshire tightened their grip on the second day of their County Championship Division Two match against Northamptonshire.<\/p>\n
The wicketkeeper made 141 and shared a sixth wicket stand of 241 with Martin Andersson, who scored 106 before Derbyshire declared on 604-7, the sixth highest total in the county’s history.<\/p>\n
Northamptonshire collapsed after tea against Ben Aitchison and Rory Haydon who both took two wickets before Calvin Harrison and James Sales steered them to 98-4 at the close, still 506 behind.<\/p>\n
Derbyshire’s dominance was briefly threatened by a fine spell of pace bowling from Harry Conway who removed the overnight pair in consecutive overs.<\/p>\n
Only five runs had been added when Conway found some late movement to trap Wayne Madsen lbw for 59 and he denied fellow Australian Caleb Jewell a century in his next over.<\/p>\n
Jewell was six short of what would have been his second first-class Derbyshire hundred but was lured into playing at one that did just enough to take the outside edge.<\/p>\n
Any hopes Northants entertained of wrapping up the innings quickly were dashed by Guest and Andersson who played with increasing authority to reassert Derbyshire’s control.<\/p>\n
Guest pulled Conway over the ropes at fine leg and a fourth batting point was secured by Andersson in the 110th over when he cut George Scrimshaw to a vacant third man boundary.<\/p>\n
The runs continued to flow after lunch with Guest celebrating his first hundred since July 2023 before Andersson reached his second of the season.<\/p>\n
Northants finally broke the stand when Andersson tried to whip Nathan McSweeney through mid-wicket and the declaration came after Guest missed a slog-sweep to become the Australian’s second victim.<\/p>\n
It was the second time this season Derbyshire had passed 600 and left Northants needing 455 to avoid following-on.<\/p>\n
That target looked even more distant when Aitchison struck in the third over, tempting Ricardo Vasconcelos to push at a ball outside his off stump, and the visitors’ problems mounted after tea as Haydon produced a superb ball to dismiss Luke Proctor, who had his off stump removed by one that came back.<\/p>\n
Scoreboard pressure probably claimed the next two wickets with McSweeney caught behind trying to leg glance Aitchison before Saif Zaib flashed at a wide ball from Haydon to give Guest his 200th first-class dismissal for Derbyshire.<\/p>\n
Zak Chappell turned the screw with a probing spell that should have brought the wicket of Sales who was dropped in the gully on 11 and England off-spinner Shoaib Bashir also commanded respect in a six-over spell that cost only 10 runs.<\/p>\n
Harrison and Sales dug in to add 60 together but the visitors have a lot of work to do on the last two days to avoid defeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooke Guest scored his first century in nearly three years as Derbyshire tightened their grip on the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-660376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}