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Potts in Crushing Win Over Lancashire
Matthew Potts. Source: facebook.com

Potts in Crushing Win Over Lancashire

Durham’s Matthew Potts delivered a career-best performance with figures of 9-68, leading his team to a commanding victory over Lancashire by an innings and 63 runs in the County Championship Division One match at Chester-le-Street.

Lancashire, resuming on 155-4 and needing 190 more runs to avoid a heavy defeat, crumbled under pressure, losing their final six wickets in less than a session to be bowled out for 282. This marked their fourth innings defeat of the season.

The lone bright spot for Lancashire was 20-year-old Matty Hurst, who notched up his second half-century of the match with a fighting 67. This was his fifth fifty of the season, offering brief resistance before Durham took control.

Potts, at one point on a hat-trick, came close but instead claimed three wickets in four balls, including Tom Bailey, who edged his second delivery to Scott Borthwick at slip. Potts wrapped up the game by trapping Anderson Phillip leg before wicket, completing a stunning match haul of 12-126.

Lancashire’s collapse began when George Balderson was dismissed by Potts for 16. The situation worsened when Venkatesh Iyer played onto his stumps, followed by Tom Hartley losing his off stump without offering a shot.

Bailey survived the hat-trick ball but was caught at slip two deliveries later, leaving Lancashire teetering at 195-8. Although Hurst and Phillip delayed the inevitable, Hurst’s aggressive shot off Potts found Callum Parkinson at long leg, taking a spectacular tumbling catch near the boundary.

Potts sealed the win when he returned to dismiss Phillip for 41, with last man Tom Aspinwall finishing unbeaten on 26. Durham collected 24 points, effectively quelling any concerns of relegation, while Lancashire managed just one point, leaving them stuck in ninth place in Division One.

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