Ten Doeschate shines in Essex win

County Championship D2, Chelmsford, day four:
Essex 404 & 238 bt Derbyshire 271 & 226 by 145 runs
Points: Essex 22, Derbys 5
Match scorecard

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Essex needed only 52 minutes on the final morning to secure a 145-run win against Derbyshire at Chelmsford.

The visitors resumed on 188-5, needing a further 184 to reach their target of 372, but lost their remaining five wickets in less than nine overs.

Eight runs had been added to the overnight total when Ryan ten Doeschate uprooted Greg Lamb's leg-stump.

Within another four overs, three more wickets fell and the innings ended on 226, Ten Doeschate claiming 4-29.

Derbyshire remain without a Championship victory at Chelmsford since 1937.

After Lamb's departure, Jake Needham was taken by wicketkeeper James Foster pushing forward at leg-spinner Danish Kaneria, while Neil Dexter caught James Pipe on the square-leg boundary off Ten Doeschate.

The paceman struck again as Foster dived low to his right to end the brief resistance of Graham Wagg.

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 and capped a superb match for the all-rounder, who scored a century and fifty.

Essex spinner Danish Kaneria, who collected three wickets, expressed his surprise that Foster is not in England's plans at the moment.

"He's the best England wicket-keeper by a long way, and has been for quite some time," said his colleague.

"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."