Match scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nAn innings of the highest class from Ben McKinney, backed up by former England Test captain Ben Stokes with bat and ball, swept promotion favourites Durham to a crushing 338-run victory over Derbyshire in the County Championship.<\/p>\n
McKinney showed why he is marked out as a future England Test player with 140 from 162 balls on the third day of the Division Two encounter at Derby.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old opener hit 15 fours and six sixes, dominating a second-wicket stand of 157 with Will Rhodes (52), followed by Stokes smashing an unbeaten 66 from 55 balls.<\/p>\n
England off-spinner Shoaib Bashir took 3-77 before Durham declared on 295-6, setting Derbyshire a notional 423 for victory.<\/p>\n
The hosts had earlier been bowled out for 156 with England paceman Matthew Potts taking 5-46 and they again collapsed dismally in the face of ruthless quick bowling.<\/p>\n
Potts claimed 3-22 to become the leading wicket taker in the Championship, while Stokes took three wickets in four balls and finished with 5-17 as promotion hopefuls Derbyshire crumbled to 84 all out to suffer the heaviest margin of defeat by runs in their history.<\/p>\n
Durham ran through Derbyshire’s lower order in the morning with Potts reaping the reward for full and accurate bowling delivered at pace.<\/p>\n
Ben Aitchison was lbw playing across the line before Anuj Dal was bowled by a beauty that dipped in late to beat his defensive push.<\/p>\n
Brydon Carse cleaned up Nick Potts with another quick and full ball and in the next over, Bashir lost his middle stump to one angled in.<\/p>\n
It was the second time this season Potts has taken five in an innings against Derbyshire after he blew them away with 8-68 to bowl Durham to victory in three days at Chester-le-Street in June.<\/p>\n
His latest haul put Durham in a strong position which McKinney cemented with an innings of poise and calculated aggression.<\/p>\n
The loss of skipper Alex Lees to the first ball of the innings proved deceptive as McKinney and Rhodes took the game further away from the hosts.<\/p>\n
Apart from one wild slog early in his innings, McKinney batted with a classical elegance while Rhodes was content to play the supporting role in a stand which stretched Durham’s lead towards 300.<\/p>\n
McKinney became more expansive, twice driving Bashir for six, on his way to a second Championship century of the summer which demonstrated why he is on England’s radar.<\/p>\n
By the time he holed out to long off, it was a question of when Durham would declare but there was time for a punishing cameo from Stokes who motored to his second half-century of the game off 38 balls.<\/p>\n
He reached it by launching a ball from Matthew Montgomery onto the roof of the Media Centre and, once Durham pulled out, Potts tore into Derbyshire for a second time.<\/p>\n
On this form, Potts will surely remain in the England conversation as he again combined pace and late movement to blow away the top order.<\/p>\n
After Carse had Caleb Jewell caught at short leg, Potts was irresistible, angling the ball in to trap Harry Came and Wayne Madsen lbw in the space of three balls.<\/p>\n
Stokes inevitably struck with his first ball, Brooke Guest top-edging a pull, Dal was lbw to the next and although Aitchison survived the hat-trick ball, he then edged a drive to first slip.<\/p>\n
A Stokes bouncer felled Brett Randell who batted on for 10 minutes but retired following a second concussion check and Stokes then wrapped up a victory that takes Durham a step closer to a Division One return.<\/p>\n
Report by ECB Reporters’ Network, supported by Rothesay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, The OurCoop County Ground, Derby (day three) Durham 283 & 295-6 dec: McKinney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-746869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}