Durham hammer Gloucs by an innings & 225 runs

Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol (day three)

Durham 605-5 dec: McKinney 244, Lees 129, Bedingham 118; Miles 2-89

Gloucestershire 175 & 205: Bancroft 56; Parkinson 3-25

Durham (24 pts) beat Gloucestershire (1 pt) by an innings and 225 runs

Match scorecard

Callum Parkinson claimed three key wickets as Durham thrashed Gloucestershire by an innings and 225 runs inside three days in a one-sided County Championship Division Two match at the Seat Unique Stadium in Bristol.

Having not featured as a bowler until the 27th over of the second innings, the experienced left-arm spinner quickly sent back Ben Charlesworth, Cameron Bancroft and Miles Hammond to leave the home side 141-3 after they had followed on a massive 430 runs behind.

A century opening stand between Charlesworth and skipper Bancroft, who top-scored with 56, had offered hope of a Gloucestershire fightback. But once Parkinson had made inroads, the seamers took over, Matthew Potts (3-49), Kemar Roach (2-55) and Kasey Aldridge (2-32) completing a resounding victory as the hosts plunged to 205 all out.

Ben Raine had earlier grabbed the last two wickets in Gloucestershire's first innings of 175 to finish with 5-45. Durham took a maximum 24 points from a resounding success.

It was a second innings defeat in as many games for the West countrymen, who were comprehensively outplayed and took just one point, leaving them on zero after a two-point deduction for a slow over-rate against Middlesex at Lord's had put them on -1.

The visitors needed just 2.3 overs to wrap up Gloucestershire's first innings after they had begun the day on 168-8 in reply to 605-5 declared. Craig Miles, on 22, edged the first ball from Raine to first slip and the seamer quickly followed up by pinning Will Williams lbw.

It looked like being a different story second time around when Bancroft and Charlesworth began positively and took the score to 77 without loss at lunch. After rain delayed the restart, they had progressed their stand to 101 when Charlesworth, on 21, got an inside edge to Parkinson and Graham Clark took the catch at short-leg.

Bancroft went to defiant half-century off 97 balls, with seven fours, but was then pinned leg-before by Parkinson to signal the beginning of the end. Gloucestershire's fragile batting line-up soon slumped to 159-7.

Potts had Joe Phillips caught at second slip and after James Bracey got off the mark with a sweetly struck four through mid-off, the bowler responded by trapping him lbw next ball.

Hammond had been dismissed playing an over-aggressive shot for the situation and the same could be said of Graeme van Buuren, bowled attempting to pull a short ball from Roach, who followed up by having Miles caught behind.

Gloucestershire were seven down at tea and their inept batting continued into the final session as Matt Taylor tamely offered a catch to point off Aldridge to make it 185-8.

Rain then caused more stoppages with short periods of play between the showers before Ollie Price pulled a catch to deep square off Potts having made 38 and Aldridge wrapped up victory at 18:05 BST by having Williams brilliantly caught one-handed by the diving Potts at backward point.

It was a spectacular way to seal an impressive Durham display.

Report by ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay.