THE sight of a man hobbling in on one leg to bowl to a batsman with a suspected broken arm while a team-mate with a broken finger waits to field the ball was a neat potted picture of the final day of Derbyshire's Championship match at Chesterfield.

Surrey were the winners at the end of a remarkable day's play at Queen's Park yesterday as Derbyshire, chasing a club record 408 for victory, fell short when they were bowled out for 365.

Tom Lungley was the last man out and was then taken straight to casualty for X-rays on a suspected broken right arm after he was hit by a firm drive from team-mate Steffan Jones late in the game.

Surrey, who lost seamer Tim Linley with a foot injury on the second day, also had Andre Nel limping in to bowl 25 overs with hamstring trouble, while off-spinner Gareth Batty broke his left index finger trying to take a catch – yet he returned to bowl again.

With Lungley facing weeks out of action if the break is confirmed, the probable loss of yet another member of his seam bowling unit in such a freakish way made it an especially frustrating day for head of cricket John Morris.

"I've felt this way a bit too often this year, to be honest," he said. "We keep getting in match-winning positions and cannot finish them off but this game wasn't lost on the fourth day, it was lost on the first two days with bat and ball.

"It was a great effort to get back in the game but to be so near yet so far again is very frustrating.

"A win here and we are up and running again but it's a defeat and we have to face up to that. That's not acceptable but we're not going to sit and cry into our mugs, we're going to get on with it the best we can to put it right.

"We're all deflated, we're all disappointed, we're all frustrated but we'll not hide. We'll come back fighting and there is a lot of good to come out of the way we fought in the last two days.

"Is the cup half full or half empty? We're half-full people here, although at the moment it feels half empty."

Derbyshire must pull themselves back together for a Friends Provident Twenty20 match against Leicestershire at Chesterfield today (5.30pm). They have another T20 fixture at Queen's Park on Sunday afternoon against Lancashire (2.30pm).

Defeat yesterday was particularly harsh for opening batsman Wayne Madsen, who became only the 15th Derbyshire player to hit centuries in both innings of a first-class match.

"It's weird. It hasn't really sunk in properly, probably because of the result," he said.

"We really believed we had a chance of winning this game, especially with the first session we had. Had Parky (Garry Park) not been out just before lunch, we would have had all the momentum and things might have been a bit different.

"But it feels really good to be in the runs again because I was really feeling it."