PHIL Mustard and Ben Stokes made very short work of Derbyshire's 125 all out in their NatWest t20 Blast match against Durham at Chester-le-Street.
Mustard hit 54 off 27 balls and Stokes an unbeaten 49 off 26 balls as the Jets won by eight wickets in only 13.2 overs.
Alex Hughes made 43 not out before he ran out of partners for Derbyshire in tricky conditions but their legs were cut from under them early on by Australian all-rounder John Hastings, who bowled his four overs straight through for career-best t20 figures of 4-26.
His first ball was pulled to deep backward square for six by Wes Durston but his third had the Derbyshire batsman lbw for seven at 10-1.
Hastings took two attempts to dismiss Gareth Cross. The first was ruled out for a no-ball but Cross cut the next ball he faced for Paul Collingwood to take a catch at backward point and went for five at 29-2 in the fourth.
Chesney Hughes started strongly, hitting four fours and a six but the 16th ball was a sharp yorker from Hastings and he was bowled for 30. When Marcus North was caught at backward point for two to end Hastings' spell, Derbyshire were in deep trouble at 57-4 in eight.
Wayne Madsen was lbw to Collingwood for eight, Scott Elstone mistimed a pull at Stokes to mid on, Tony Palladino was caught at mid on off Collingwood and David Wainwright was stumped off Gareth Breese, leaving the Falcons in danger of not seeing out their overs on 83-8 in the 14th.
That brought in Greg Cork for his senior debut and he hit 12 before a very good catch at deep midwicket ended his stay at 115-9 but Alex Hughes extended his fine form with the bat to hit the next ball for six before the teams went off for rain.
They returned for Mark Turner to cut to Collingwood at point, leaving Hughes 43 not out off 36 balls with two fours and a six.
Mustard hammered Cork's first over for four fours and a six and finished with 11 fours plus that one six before he was bowled by Turner but then Stokes took up the charge and finished the match with two sixes.
