THE reward for Derbyshire's pressure came after tea on the second day of their LV County Championship match against Worcestershire at the 3aaa County Ground.
Worcestershire, often by riding their luck, were 126-1 at the end of the second session but Mark Footitt struck straight after tea and Derbyshire ended the day still ahead by 135 with the away side 221-6.
Footitt finished with 4-61 but all four Derbyshire seamers could be very happy with their day's work.
With Alex Hughes and Tony Palladino taking their ninth-wicket partnership on to 58, Derbyshire were finally bowled out for 356 in their first innings.
Hughes added only one run to his overnight score before he was lbw to Charlie Morris for 74, giving the young Worcestershire bowler the first five-wicket haul of his career. He finished with 5-54.
Derbyshire were nine runs short of another batting point then but two fours in an over from Footitt took them beyond 350.
The end of the innings came when Palladino drove firmly and Morris deflected the ball on to the stumps at the non-striker's end, catching Footitt (11) out of his ground. Palladino was 38 not out.
Footitt gave Richard Oliver a very uncomfortable time before the opener looped a return catch and went for one at 1-1 in the third over.
Footitt's six-over spell brought him 1-13 and he caused plenty more problems straight after the interval. Palladino, Hughes and Wayne White also bowled good spells but Daryl Mitchell (67) and Tom Fell (47) batted through the session.
Mitchell was dropped at gully on 40 but finally went to the third ball after tea as he was bowled offering no shot for 67, made off 168 balls with nine fours.
Two balls later, Alexei Kervezee was caught behind for nought off Footitt and Derbyshire were on top again. When Tom Kohler-Cadmore drove Footitt straight to point for 10, Worcestershire were 144-4.
White had the first wicket of his second spell for the club when he bowled Ben Cox for 14 at 169-5 and David Wainwright finally ended the 194-ball stay of Fell (70) with a catch to midwicket at 191-6.
Derbyshire had a burst with the new ball before the close but Joe Leach (32) and Shaaiq Choudry (9) made it through to the close.
