Seven-Wicket WIn For Derbyshire
Langeveldt - in the wickets.
The international quality of Charl Langeveldt and Wavell Hinds cut through a fragile Middlesex batting order to set up a seven-wicket Derbyshire victory at the County Ground today.
Langeveldt and Hinds sparked a dramatic collapse as the visitors lost their last seven wickets for 48 to be shot out for 166 in the LV County Championship Division Two clash.
The South African seamer took a season's best five for 40 while Hinds captured three for 22 and Derbyshire reached their target of 126 with 22.4 overs remaining.
Middlesex had started the day 12 in front with eight wickets in hand and should have done a lot better in conditions that were good for batting.
But only the inexperienced pair of Dawid Malan and Dan Housego offered any prolonged resistance as the wickets tumbled to a rash of poor shots.
Eoin Morgan set the tone in the fifth over of the morning when he launched a big drive at Langeveldt and gave wicketkeeper Tom New the first of four catches.
Malan was lucky to escape when he also edged a drive but Rikki Clarke spilled the chance diving in front of Chris Rogers at first slip.
That threatened to prove costly as the fourth-wicket pair began to frustrate Derbyshire but the decision to throw the ball to Hinds was an inspired one.
The West Indian's gentle medium pace changed the course of the match as he took three wickets for only five runs in his first five overs.
Malan was caught behind driving for 47 off 81 balls and Ben Scott went the same way for a duck when he followed a wide one in the Jamaican's next over.
When Gareth Berg edged a back-foot force, Middlesex had slumped to 136 for six, and Housego's gritty innings ended three overs later when Langeveldt returned to knock back his off-stump.
The 19-year-old had faced 73 balls for his 36 and showed the sort of application most of his team-mates lacked.
Murali Kartik lashed Langeveldt high to cover where Graham Wagg held a superb leaping catch on the stroke of lunch and Middlesex subsided quickly after the interval.
Langeveldt cleaned up the tail with two wickets in two balls by bowling Alan Richardson and Tim Murtagh to take his championship haul for the season to 47.
Murtagh gave the visitors a glimmer of hope by having Paul Borrington caught low at second slip with the total on 21 but he then spilled a low return chance when Dan Birch was on 12.
Rogers played on trying to cut Kartik and Hinds was bowled driving at Evans but Birch sealed victory with a six to finish unbeaten on 66.