Despite the loss of captain Aneurin Donald, caught behind the attack at Anderson, Derbyshire got off to a fast start.

Donald had hit a pair of sixes down the leg side off the quick Mitch Stanley before Andersson took successive boundaries off Hartley’s turn as the score advanced to 44-1 after four overs.

The excellent Anderson struck again for Lightning when Yousaf Bin Naeem was caught at backward square leg, before spin from Livingstone, Shadab Khan and Hartley really tightened the grip on the Falcons.

Shadab’s leg-spin saw Wayne Madsen lbw sweep the googly, at 66-3 in the eighth over, before Livingstone and Hartley struck twice in an over as the Falcons fell to 121-7 after 16 overs.

In all, they lost six wickets in the last six overs on a gripping surface. Anderson finished with 2-21 from his four overs and Livingstone 2-24 from his four.

Keaton Jennings hauled in the first sixes off deep-mid Matt Montgomery and Akif Javed before the former took revenge by bowling the Lancashire captain for 23 as the score fell to 35-1 in the fifth over.

Like Jennings, fellow opener Michael Jones failed to get out of the twenty and was bowled for 28 by Pakistani left-arm pacer Akif with a score of 61 in the ninth over.

But Livingstone opened his shoulders soon after to bowl former county colleague Jack Morley for six and move into double figures.

The magnificent Sufyan created some doubts when he trapped Ben McDermott at deep midwicket and Joe Moores behind the next ball: 80-4 after 13 overs.

And even more so when he trapped Livingstone at deep mid-wicket for 31 at 100-5, the ball having been hit for six in the 15th over.

The target later became 30 in two overs.

Hurst and Jack Blatherwick scored six each as 17 came off Akif in the penultimate over before Hurst hit two fours over the offside to leave one needed off the last ball, only to be bowled by a brilliantly executed delivery from Potts.

Report provided by ECB Reporters’ Network, with support from Rothesay.