DAY FOUR: Derbyshire 274 & 220-5 bt Surrey 131 and 360 by five wickets
(Derbyshire 19pts, Surrey 3pts)

Pipe hit the winning runs

Derbyshire maintained their impressive home record in the Championship with a five-wicket victory over Surrey.

Although rain delayed the start by 25 minutes, Derbyshire knocked off the 73 runs they needed five minutes before lunch to ease home on day four.

Steve Stubbings top scored with 83 to lead the hosts to 220-5, earning them a vaulable 19-point haul.

The win was set up on the first day, when Surrey were bowled out for 131 with Graham Wagg taking six wickets.

It was only Derbyshire's 19th first-class win over Surrey since 1883 and underlined their impressive home form after going through the entire 2008 season unbeaten at the County Ground.

Derbyshire always looked comfortable chasing 218 on a pitch which had flattened out.

Resuming, once the skies had cleared, on 145-2 Stubbings and Dan Redfearn reduced the target by 21 before the latter clipped Chris Jordan into the hands of Andre Nel at midwicket.

Wavell Hinds was later caught behind off Chris Schofield, while Stubbings finally perished when he tried to paddle sweep the spinner and was bowled.

And it was left to stand-in skipper Jamie Pipe to complete the win when he swept Schofield for four.

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