County Championship: Derbyshire enjoy strong first day against Gloucestershire

Bracey and van Buuren started to redress the balance after lunch and were looking set until Dal again shifted the initiative with two wickets in consecutive overs.

He squeezed a yorker under Bracey’s bat to break a stand of 69 from 123 balls and then trapped Tom Price bang in front to reduce the visitors to 138-6.

Dal took his sweater with the impressive figures of 4-26 from 14 overs and Derbyshire should have removed van Buuren on 54 when a top-edged pull at Andersson was spilled by Pat Brown running to square leg.

It threatened to be costly as Zaman Akhter provided support to help van Buuren steer Gloucestershire towards respectability but the innings unravelled after tea.

Reece’s first ball of the evening session tempted van Buuren into a pull which he skied into the hands of fine leg to end a partnership of 67 with Akhter who was bowled in the same over driving.

In his next over, Reece swung one in to have Marchant de Lange lbw and he wrapped up the innings when Matt Taylor edged to first slip.

It was an impressive display of control and accuracy from Reece and Dal but Gloucestershire’s bowlers failed to show the same discipline which allowed Lloyd and Jewell to reach 50 in the eighth over.

Although Lloyd was bowled by Tom Price, Jewell tucked into Taylor, taking five fours from his fifth over as the Australian reached 50 on debut off only 37 balls.

It was threatening to get ugly for Gloucestershire until Jewell pulled de Lange to fine leg to take a little of the shine off Derbyshire’s day.