Ramps heroics set up Surrey win

Mark Ramprakash followed up his 100th first-class hundred with a half-century which set up Surrey Brown Caps’ first victory in the Pro40 competition at the expense of Derbyshire Phantoms at Chesterfield.

The Brown Caps reached 231 for nine from their 40 overs and then Jade Dernbach and Usman Afzaal returned their best one-day figures to wrap up a 13-run win with 10 balls to spare.

Dernbach took 5-31 and Afzaal 4-49 as Derbyshire were bowled out for 218, with the last six wickets falling for 35 after former Surrey star Rikki Clarke had hit 44 off 49 balls.

Surrey threatened to set a more formidable target when James Benning hit Graham Wagg for three fours in the third over and struck five more boundaries in his 22-ball 35 before he pulled Charl Langeveldt to mid-on.

Wayne White was drafted into the Phantoms team after Jon Clare was injured in a pre-match football game and needed 11 stitches in a gashed head but the seamer's solitary over cost 18 with Scott Newman clubbing four fours to bring up the 100.

Mark Ramprakash hit a half-century to help Surrey overcome Derbyshire by 13 runs at Chesterfield

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But Surrey lost momentum after Stewart Walters was lbw to a ball from Wagg which kept low and the runs dried up as Nayan Doshi applied the brake against his former county.

Afzaal was sent back and run out for three and the pressure told on Newman who was bowled aiming to whip Doshi through midwicket for 51 which came off 63 balls.

When Matthew Spriegel became on-loan wicketkeeper Tom New's first victim for Derbyshire, Surrey had lost four wickets in seven overs to slump to 134 for five.

Ramprakash had walked out to a rousing reception from a 2,000-plus crowd, after reaching his centuries milestone at Headingley Carnegie earlier in the weekend, and he revived the Surrey innings with 57 from 51 balls.

Doshi was driven high over the sightscreen and Greg Smith was dispatched over long-off.

Langeveldt was lifted over midwicket for another six but he hit back with a slower ball that Ramprakash dragged into his stumps.

The South African yorked Dernbach in the last over but the Surrey paceman struck twice in the first eight overs of the Phantoms reply.

Dan Birch lost his leg stump and Wavell Hinds was bowled through the gate after hitting three fours but Chris Rogers and Clarke put the home side back on course.

They added 95 in 18 overs but the game turned again when Clarke was stumped charging Afzaal and Rogers fell to Spriegel in the next over for 53 from 77 balls.

Smith and New added 45 in seven overs but Afzaal snared them both and Dernbach returned to mop up in murky light to condemn Derbyshire to a second consecutive Division Two defeat.