Yorkshire managed to stay in the game at Derby despite being bowled out for 117, and at one stage they had Derbyshire struggling on 24 for four before they recovered to 71 for four with the biggest stand of an eventful day.

Apart from when a ball shot through low to trap Richard Blakey lbw, there seemed little wrong with the lively pitch - a fact which umpires Chris Balderstone and Barry Dudlestone confirmed - and most of the wickets fell because batsmen were unable to cope with the swinging conditions yesterday.

These were particularly well exploited by Phil DeFreitas who claimed four for 37 to leave him requiring a further eight wickets for 1,000 dismissals in first class cricket.

Play began on time after the first day washout and Yorkshire, put in to bat, were soon in big trouble from which they were unable to recover.

The rot started in Dominic Cork's second over when the Derbyshire captain had Greg Blewett lbw pushing well forward to continue the Australian's depressing sequence of scores and five balls later David Byas wafted outside off-stump and was caught behind.

DeFreitas struck for the first time when Matthew Wood could not keep down his shot to cover point and it became 19 for four as Michael Vaughan glanced Cork to finely and wicketkeeper Steve Griffiths held his second catch.

A brief recovery was instigated by Anthony McGrath and Craig White but at 47 seamer Michael Deane marked an excellent championship debut by pinning McGrath lbw. He could claim less credit, however, for his next wicket because Blakey had no chance of getting his pad out of the way of a shooter.

Chris Silverwood came in at 71 for six seemingly bent on scoring the fastest century of the season and with White playing freely off the front foot through the covers 28 runs were dashed up in six overs before Silverwood had one dart too many at Matthew Cassar and DeFreitas calmly took a skied catch at mid-off.

DeFreitas was still swinging the ball appreciably and he moved one across White to end a good innings of 34 from 96 balls with five boundaries, Adrian Rollins scooping up a well-judged catch low at first slip.

Ryan Sidebottom and Matthew Hoggard were both undone by yorkers from DeFreitas and the Yorkshire innings had subsided in the space of 46.3 overs.

If Derbyshire thought batting was going to be easier for them they were mistaken for Michael Slater cut rashly at Silverwood's second ball to be caught behind and Steve Titchard was palpably lbw to Silverwood who had now taken his tally to 21 wickets by his fifth match of the season.

Hoggard looked just as menacing with the new ball and he made it 14 for three as Rollins carved to White at first slip and he struck again immediately aftert 26 overs had been lost to rain, Tim Tweats nibbling his outswinger into Blakey's gloves.

But Robin Weston and Cassar stopped the slide with the most confident batting of the day and both White and Sidebottom were punished when they took over the bowling. Blewett was also brought on in a vain attempt to split the partnership but the fifth wicket pair were still there at the close, having put on47.

The Super Six stage of the World Cup was getting under way today with India playing Australia at The Oval.

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