Essex coast to victory

Ryan ten Doeschate cleaned up the tail with four wickets

Essex needed just 52 minutes to wrap up Derbyshire's innings at Chelmsford and record their third LV County Championship victory of the summer.

After resuming on 188 for five, in pursuit of a target of 372, the visitors' resistance ended on 226, leaving Essex victors by 145 runs to avenge the defeat suffered at Derby earlier in the season.

The five remaining wickets fell in the space of 8.4 overs, Ryan ten Doeschate making the initial breakthrough when he sent Greg Smith's leg stump cartwheeling out of the ground with just eight added to the overnight total.

Within another four overs, three more wickets fell.

Jake Needham was snapped up by wicketkeeper James Foster pushing forward at leg-spinner Danish Kaneria, before Neil Dexter accepted a catch on the square-leg boundary to get rid of James Pipe and earn ten Doeschate another success.

As the disintegration of the innings continued, Foster dived low to his right to end the brief resistance of Graham Wagg as ten Doeschate struck again.

There was a brief flurry from the last-wicket pair of Jon Clare and Charl Langeveldt as they added 22.

But a neat pick-up and throw by ten Doeschate ran out Langeveldt to bring the innings to a close and leave Derbyshire still searching for their first championship victory at Chelmsford since 1937.

Ten Doeschate finished with figures of 4-29 from 9.4 overs, his best championship return of the season, and which followed his century in the first innings and an unbeaten 55 in the second.

Kaneria picked up 3-54 in 27 overs, 14 of which were maidens.

It also proved a fine match for Foster. He excelled with his athleticism behind the stumps as he emerged with seven catches - a performance which earned high praise from Kaneria.

"He's the best England wicketkeeper by a long way, and has been for quite some time,” said Kaneria.

“He's also a fighter who is capable of scoring valuable runs, as he has shown in the last few weeks.

"I rate him so highly that, if I was to pick a World XI, he would be in it.”