Yorkshire seamers Steve Kirby and Ryan Sidebottom ran riot at Derby yesterday to leave Derbyshire reeling on 80-8 and still 215 runs away from avoiding the follow-on.

The Kirby bandwagon, which started rolling at Taunton with 13 wickets, gathered momentum even further, but this time through featuring in a record last-wicket partnership and then by grabbing three wickets in eight balls at a cost of one run.

Sidebottom snatched four wickets for five runs in six overs in his second spell after taking over from Kirby and the pair of them more than made up for the morning session being lost to the weather.

Craig White was on 102 when Yorkshire resumed on 314-7, the rain cutting the day's ration to 63 overs, and the innings looked all but over at 348-8.

But last-man Kirby batted with the care and commitment of an opener and Derbyshire were made to pay the price for Tom Lungley dropping White off a leading edge to deep backward points when he was on 121.

With their pace attack floundering, Derbyshire had to call up off-spinner Nathan Dumelow, but White twice picked him up for six in between Yorkshire reaching 400 and netting maximum batting points.

Kirby was confident enough to take two steps down the pitch to on-drive Dumelow for four as the stand moved smoothly on and at 62 it overtook the previous Yorkshire best for the tenth wicket against Derbyshire between Schofield Haigh and David Denton on the same ground 108 years' ago.

It had reached 96 in 22 overs when Kirby was taken at slip for 33 to leave White stranded on 173 from 244 balls with 20 fours and two sixes.

Andrew Gait and Michael DiVenuto began at a cracking pace but it was a false dawn for Derbyshire because they were soon pitched into the deepest gloom by Kirby who found bounce and away movement to have DiVenuto well caught at second slip by Yuvraj Singh. Later in the over Chris Bassano was trapped in front of his stumps.

It became three wickets in eight balls as Mohammad Kaif shouldered arms and was bowled by one which came back a long way but there was no respite for Derbyshire even when Kirby was rested.

Sidebottom, switching ends, found the edge of Dominic Hewson's bat before having Gait caught behind in his next over and then Bresnan stepped in by dismissing Dominic Cork lbw, but it was the left-armer who continued the rout, undoing Luke Sutton with extra bounce and bowling Welch all ends up.

Derbyshire had plunged from 33 without loss to 55-8 but Lungley and Dumelow suddenly made batting look a lot easier while holding out for the last eight overs.

Updated: 11:03 Friday, July 04, 2003