Gloucestershire v Derbyshire - County Championship Division Two – Day 1 - Live Score and Update
Derbyshire 95 v Gloucestershire 182/5 (61.0 ov) - Gloucestershire lead by 87 runs with 5 wickets remaining in the 1st innings
On the first day of the four-day match in the ongoing County Championship Division Two tournament, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gloucestershire-c785 lead by 87 runs with five wickets in hand against Derbyshire, in a match being played at County Ground, Bristol.
The lethal combination of Gloucestershire bowlers WRS Gidman and DA Payne left the batting side flabbergasted as Gidman bagged four while Payne levelled the odds by securing three wickets.
Earlier after winning the toss, Derbyshire chose to bat first as they wanted to post maximum runs in their first innings.
However, little did they know that they were about to face a staggering bowling, which would leave them in tears by the end of their innings.
Derbyshire lost their first wicket with 19 runs on the board when they lost the services of Guptill, who perished after scoring an innings of 15 runs. The batsman had his stumps uprooted by DA http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Payne-c81269.
Next to hit the showers was opener, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Lineker-c77818, who fell after scoring an innings of four runs, leaving his team standing on a tally of 22.
With 45 runs on the board, Payne struck for the third time by dismantling WL Madsen, who fell after scoring 13 runs.
With the top three batsmen back in the pavilion, it was imperative for the batting team to hold the bowling onslaught in order to prevent an early end to their first innings.
However, it was then time for Gidman to join the party as the bowler looked in spectacular form and proved just too good for the batsmen to counter.
Derbyshire suffering a terrible batting collapse, then faltered after amassing a meagre first innings tally of 95.
Coming out to bat, Gloucestershire lost their first wicket with six runs on the board as JN Batty fell for two runs.
Groenewald then struck to dismiss BAC Howell, who met his doom after scoring ten runs, leaving his side standing on 28.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KS-Williamson-c1813 then forged a staggering partnership with skipper APR Gidman as the duo took the side to 109 runs before Williamson lost his wicket on a tally of 56.
Meanwhile the skipper stayed unbeaten on 72 as the side managed to amass 182 runs for the loss of five wickets.
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