FRIENDS PROVIDENT TROPHY
Lancashire 241-2 beat Derbyshire 240-6 by eight wickets

Lancashire had two centurions to thank for steering them to a third successive Friends Provident Trophy victory.

Paul Horton hit 111, backed by Mark Chilton's 101 as the pair shared an unbroken third-wicket stand of 202 to guide their team home at Old Trafford.

Wavell Hinds hit 95 and Steve Stubbings 50 as Derbyshire set a target of 240-6.

But, after slumping to 39-2 in reply, Horton and Chilton rescued their team to win with 21 balls to spare, taking them clear at the top of Group D.

It was Horton's second Friends Provident Trophy century in as many Sundays, enabling him to become only the fourth Lancashire player to record successive one-day hundreds.

After being invited to field, Derbyshire were indebted to former West Indies batsman Hinds' highest score for the county, although he was dropped at square leg by Chilton on 67.

But, after Tom Smith and Ashwell Prince had fallen early, to leave Lancashire 39-2 in the 12th over, Chilton helped to make amends.

And his century, reached in style with a six over mid-wicket off the bowling of Graham Wagg, was the quicker of the two, in 97 balls, Horton's having taken 133 deliveries.

Mark Chilton told BBC Radio Lancashire:

"I was pleased with the way I was hitting the ball and things were going my way and I was very pleased with the hundred.

"I wasn't quite as happy with my rhythm as I could have been but by spending that time at the crease things started to click."

Paul Horton told BBC Radio Lancashire:

"We're starting to get a bit of momentum so if we carry on and keep winning maybe we can climb the ladder get in a quarter-final.

"A home tie would be even better."

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