Vitality County Championship Division Two, County Ground, Derby (fourth day)
Glamorgan 168: Chapel 6-47 & 287: Carlson 56, Ingram 53; Morley 3-46
Derbyshire 429: Dal 94, Came 84, Madsen 70; Crane 3-43, Kellaway 3-59 & 27-0
Derbyshire (23 points) defeated Glamorgan (3 points) by 10 wickets
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Derbyshire claimed their first championship victory in 1,803 days at the County Ground, beating Glamorgan by 10 wickets.
On the final morning, Glamorgan bowled 287 and added 61 more for the last three wickets, which were claimed by David Lloyd and Luis Reece.
With rain looming, Derbyshire openers Reece and Harry Came managed the required 27 points in 6.4 overs.
The Division Two relegation candidates had played 26 games at all venues without a single win before Lloyd led his side to victory over his former county.
Reece, Wayne Madsen and Anuj Dal are the only Derbyshire survivors from the 181-run victory over Sussex in September 2019, three British prime ministers before and before Covid hit the country.
It was a sobering relegation for the Welsh team, which had won seven of eight One-Day Cup matches since the dramatic championship match against Gloucestershire in Cheltenham.
But Derbyshire had the upper hand almost throughout, with Zak Chappell and Reece taking six wickets in the first hour in conditions favourable to bowlers.
The visitors’ hopes of survival virtually vanished when they lost three wickets without scoring an extra goal towards the end of the third day.
At 236-7 and still 25 runs behind, Mason Crane and Dan Douthwaite fought hard in a stand of 47 before Lloyd made the breakthrough with the off-spin he has developed this season.
His first ball was almost unplayable and Crane was lbw for 20, while Reece closed the innings by hitting Fraser Sheat for 10 leg-before and bowling Douthwaite for 20 after a long watch.
With only rain clouds looming, Came smashed two smooth passes from Glamorgan captain Sam Northeast into the boundary to seal the result, to the relieved applause of the long-suffering home crowd.
