Basement side Dunfermline crashed to a resounding home defeat against Kilmarnock, who move within two points of the Premier League leaders Rangers.

The Pars, with only one win in the last 14 games, are in increasing danger of losing touch with the rest of the division.

After a bright start the game looked like descending into mediocrity until Ian Durrant scored the first of two brilliant goals in the 36th minute.

It was a blockbuster of a shot from 25 yards. It came to him from a throw-in and he netted from the top corner of the crossbar.

Dunfermline never really recovered their composure and Durrant made it two in the 56th minute.

A ball from the right caught the home defence napping. Jerome Vareille neatly picked up the ball and slipped it to Durrant who scored from a very narrow angle.

Dunfermline tried desperately to get back in the game and Andy Tod struck the Kilmarnock upright with a header from a Gavin Johnson corner in the 62nd minute.

Six minutes later the Killie keeper Gordon Marshall did well to stop an Andy Smith header from an Edinho cross.

In the 77th minute Gary Holt put the game beyond any doubt.

He battled for the ball with three defenders, finally broke through and gave keeper Lee Butler no chance from eight yards.

Teams:

Dunfermline: Butler, Shields, McCulloch, Tod, Ireland, Smith, Johnson, Edinho, Squires, Graham, Ferguson. Subs: Westwater, French, Petrie, Fraser, Martin.

Kilmarnock: Marshall, MacPherson, Montgomerie, McGowne, Reilly, Holt, Wright, Durrant, Mitchell, Vareille, Baker. Subs: McCoist, Mahood, Bagan, Burke, Strain.