MARK Davies, another product of Durham's seam bowling production line, took three wickets at Darlington yesterday as Derbyshire crashed to the lowest all-out total recorded against Durham in the one-day league.

The 19-year-old former Norton player slightly tarnished his efforts with seven wides, but figures of three for 15 in six overs were just reward for a lively spell as the visitors were dismissed for 87.

In a National League division two basement battle, a 95-run victory took Durham above Derbyshire, whose performance was just as undistinguished as in the championship clash.

The pitch offered some movement, but Durham reached 182 for six, of which Simon Katich made his best one-day score of 67 not out.

It was also a good day for Martin Speight, who hit 55 and had five victims behind the stumps, including two stumpings off Nicky Phillips, who wrapped up the tail of a flimsy line-up with figures of three for four.

The previous lowest completed innings against Durham in the Sunday League was 116 by Essex at Chelmsford in 1995, and a further measure of Derbyshire's woeful effort was that extras were top scorer with 20.

An hour's delay because of rain reduced the match to 37 overs a side and had an adverse effect on the crowd, which was under 1,000 when 2,500 might have been expected on a sunny day.

The absence of star names probably didn't help, and anyone turning up in the hope of seeing England's resurrected star Dominic Cork would have been disappointed.

The Derbyshire captain was delayed by England's post-match debriefing and after his heroics at Lord's it seems crazy that he is not in England's one-day squad.

With the NatWest Trophy tie against Hampshire on Wednesday assuming high priority, Durham left out their leading seamers, apart from Neil Killeen.

Davies, who made his debut in this competition at the end of the 1998 campaign but missed last season through injury, had quite an impact.

He had Steve Stubbings caught at the wicket with his fourth ball and was indirectly responsible for the demise of danger man Michael di Venuto in his next over.

Davies appealed confidently for lbw and the Tasmanian unwisely set off for a run as the ball trickled past slip, only to be sent back and beaten by Paul Collingwood's throw.

This was a huge bonus for Durham as di Venuto, then with Sussex, scored 72 not out against them in both National League clashes last season.

Davies then clean bowled another left-hander, Mathew Dowman, and had Luke Sutton caught behind.

Another Norton man, Marc Symington, played his part by helping to give Durham's innings the sort of late impetus which is usually lacking.

He hit 16 off 20 balls before being yorked by the last ball of the innings, having put on 48 in six overs with Katich.

Derbyshire put Durham in as Nick Speak's ill luck with the toss continued. He has won one out of seven in the championship and three out of 14 in one-day games, excluding the Zimbabwe match.

Collingwood played on to the second ball, which trickled on to the stumps with just enough force to dislodge a bail. But by the time Muazam Ali was out in similar fashion for 24 the score had moved on to 47.

Speight, now in his fourth season with Durham, had made four previous half-centuries in this competition.

He reached the fifth with a reverse sweep for four off spinner Simon Lacey, and like Katich he faced 76 balls and hit four boundaries.

The Australian was caught for 53 off a Trevor Smith no-ball called for a waist-high full toss, but that was one of the few occasions when he failed to find the gaps in another high-class innings.

Following his century in the championship match, he will have enjoyed his few days at Feethams, while Derbyshire could hardly wait to get away.