Stokes calls Ashes venues ‘shambolic’ then takes three wickets in his first over: county cricket day three – live

Updates from around the grounds Day two roundup | Sign up for the Spin | Mail Tanya Iced with panache by plucking out Shoaib Bashir’s middle stump.

Derbyshire 156 all out, trail Durham by 127.

Potts 5-45 leads Durham off, after taking 8-66 against Derbyshire up at CLS in June.

Carse looks sensational, 100 per cent pure thoroughbred.

Way too good for Derbyshire yesterday, even if the wickets column doesn’t show it.

But the press box have been mulling that if he pitched it up and hit the stumps more he’d be unplayable.

And boom, he does, and bowls Nick Potts for 2.

Derbyshire 153-9.

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