Trinidadian pacer Anderson Phillip took two wickets in his debut for County Championship outfit Lancashire but it wasn’t enough to prevent them from going down by an innings and 63 runs to Durham in their Division 1 encounter from September 9-12 at the Riverside Ground in Chester-Le-Street.

Durham, after winning the toss and electing to field first, restricted Lancashire to 228 all out in 94.3 overs.

Matty Hurst led the way with 90 while Josh Bohannon made 49 against 5-44 off 25 overs from medium pacer Ben Raine and 3-58 off 26 overs from Matthew Potts, who recently represented England in their Test series against Sri Lanka.

Durham then put themselves in a dominant position with the bat, putting the Lancashire bowlers to the sword on the way to a mammoth 573-9 in 135.3 overs before declaring with a lead of 345 runs.

South Africa Test batsman David Bedingham led the way with a career best first class score of 279 off 359 balls including 27 fours and a six.

Netherlands all-rounder Colin Ackerman provided excellent support for Bedingham with 186 off 312 balls including 17 fours.

Spinner Luke Wells took 4-69 off 13.3 overs while Phillip took 2-101 off his 21 overs.

A career best spell from Matthew Potts then steered Durham to an innings win.

The medium pacer ran through the Lancashire batting on the way to figures of 9-68 from his 24.2 overs.

Similar to the first innings, Matty Hurst and Josh Bohannon led the way with the bat for Lancashire with 67 and 56, respectively.

Anderson Phillip showed fight with a 68-ball 41 batting at number 10.