Chanderpaul innings leads Falcons to victory.
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| Chanderpaul hit 7 fours and 2 sixes in his unbeaten score of 87. |
With heavy rain and floodlights, conditions proved to get the better of Lancashire in the early stages of their innings, with the visitors 19-3. Tim Groenewald was responsible for this initial success, taking all three wickets, including Steven Croft who fell for a duck after scoring 52 versus Notts yesterday.
On a dismal day, for any form of the game, the start had been delayed and a further rain delay in the hosts chase proved to test the players and crowd, who had all seen a wash-out in the Yorkshire Bank 40 campaign.
Simon Katich and Karl Brown were forced in to playing much slower than they had intended in order to restore Lancashire's position. Katich's vast experience and consistency proved vital, as he hit 28, including 20 runs from one over.
Karl Brown led Lancashire's innings with fifty from 39 balls, including three sixes, as he and Tom Smith (27) added 68 for the fifth-wicket.
After he was removed, Gareth Cross joined Smith and was able to add a quick-fire 24 to Lancashire's now impressive total, as they finished with 151-8.
When Chesney Hughes was out off the first ball of the innings, the momentum had incontrovertibly swung in Lancashire's favour, but this wicket may have in fact done the visitors a disservice, as it brought Chanderpaul to the crease.
Accompanied by Wes Durston (20), the West-Indies powerhouse added fifty runs to Derbyshire's total before the former played-on to his stumps off Glen Chapple.
But, in spite of this breakthrough, Chanderpaul persisted to play high quality shots, utilising the pace of the likes of Mitch McClenaghan to play exquisite cover-drives. Now partnered by Wayne Madsen Derbyshire closed in on, what became clear, to be an insufficient total.
Tom Smith proved to be incredibly economic, affording just 17 runs from his allocation of four overs, and he also claimed the wicket of Madsen who added 23 before he was caught in stunning style by Stephen Moore.
But this would prove to be the final success of a tough day for Lancashire with South-African Albie Morkel (15*) aiding Chanderpaul's task.
On a dismal day, for any form of the game, the start had been delayed and a further rain delay in the hosts chase proved to test the players and crowd, who had all seen a wash-out in the Yorkshire Bank 40 campaign.
Simon Katich and Karl Brown were forced in to playing much slower than they had intended in order to restore Lancashire's position. Katich's vast experience and consistency proved vital, as he hit 28, including 20 runs from one over.
Karl Brown led Lancashire's innings with fifty from 39 balls, including three sixes, as he and Tom Smith (27) added 68 for the fifth-wicket.
After he was removed, Gareth Cross joined Smith and was able to add a quick-fire 24 to Lancashire's now impressive total, as they finished with 151-8.
When Chesney Hughes was out off the first ball of the innings, the momentum had incontrovertibly swung in Lancashire's favour, but this wicket may have in fact done the visitors a disservice, as it brought Chanderpaul to the crease.
Accompanied by Wes Durston (20), the West-Indies powerhouse added fifty runs to Derbyshire's total before the former played-on to his stumps off Glen Chapple.
But, in spite of this breakthrough, Chanderpaul persisted to play high quality shots, utilising the pace of the likes of Mitch McClenaghan to play exquisite cover-drives. Now partnered by Wayne Madsen Derbyshire closed in on, what became clear, to be an insufficient total.
Tom Smith proved to be incredibly economic, affording just 17 runs from his allocation of four overs, and he also claimed the wicket of Madsen who added 23 before he was caught in stunning style by Stephen Moore.
But this would prove to be the final success of a tough day for Lancashire with South-African Albie Morkel (15*) aiding Chanderpaul's task.
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