THE long road to safety started for Derbyshire on the third morning of their LV County Championship match at the 3aaa County Ground.
After bowling Surrey out for 421, Derbyshire set about erasing their first innings deficit of 268 and were 73-1 at lunch.
Surrey, eight wickets down overnight, added 29 runs for their last two wickets, with Chris Tremlett going on the attack but only after the 110th over had passed with no fifth batting point for Surrey and no third bowling point for Derbyshire.
Tremlett hit two further sixes before he was caught at long off by Tony Palladino to give Tom Taylor a second wicket, having made 43 with four sixes and two fours.
In the next over, Jade Dernbach backed away from a full length Mark Footitt ball and was bowled, giving the bowler his 150th first-class victim and leaving him with 4-63 in the innings.
Openers Stephen Moore and Paul Borrington put on 62 before Moore pushed forward to spinner Zafar Ansari and was caught behind for 30.
At lunch, Borrington was 32 not out and Wayne Madsen seven not out.
