AS Anthony Ireland's middle stump cartwheeled across the County Ground turf, a memorable day for Derbyshire – and for Graham Wagg in particular – was complete.

A victory by 117 runs against Gloucestershire brought a winning end to the home season for Derbyshire on Saturday.

Even though Warwickshire's defeat of Essex meant it was not enough to keep their interest in the Division Two promotion places flickering alive, it was still a day worth celebrating for John Morris' team.

Not only was it their fourth victory of the season, it meant the county have gone through the whole of an LV County Championship season without a defeat on home turf for the first time since 1982 and that, surely, has to be a measure of good progress.

With plenty of time and plenty of runs on their side, Derbyshire bowled with patience and discipline to finish the job on the final day against the division's bottom side.

The odds were always against Gloucestershire getting a county record highest fourth innings total of 398 to win the game but, with 280 to get in 96 overs on the last day, the contest was Derbyshire's to clinch or throw away, depending on how they approached their task.

Thankfully, they did it properly. Charl Langeveldt took three of the remaining eight wickets, Ian Hunter bowled far better than his one-wicket return would suggest and Greg Smith and Wayne White chipped in with breakthroughs at important times.

But it was wholly appropriate that Wagg should take the final wicket.

This was a very special match for the 25-year-old. Not only did his second innings 4-77 complete the best match figures of his career with 10-133, it gave him another entry in the county records.

Wagg is only the third Derbyshire player ever to take 10 wickets and score 100 runs in a Championship match and the first for 74 years – following Garnet Lee in 1927 and Leslie Townsend in 1934.

In the process of smashing 72 in Derbyshire's second innings, which was such an important factor in setting up the victory, he also became the first Derbyshire player since Geoff Miller in 1976-77 to score 500 runs and take 50 wickets in successive Championship seasons.

"It's a great achievement and I'm really pleased with myself," said Wagg.

"We knew we were going to win the game if we stuck to our disciplines and we did that.

"Runs didn't really matter to us because if they were going to knock off 400 to beat us, fair play to them, but we knew our bowling attack was too good for them and to bowl them out for 280 on a flat wicket was a great achievement

"Everyone else has done their job. Ian Hunter was very unlucky and I thought he was the pick of the bowlers on the last day.

"He ran in and bowled with good heart and could have had a lot more than the one wicket."

Gloucestershire deserved credit for battling all the way when it would have been far easier for them to make a token effort and take the early bus home.

David Brown, Chris Taylor and night watchman Steve Kirby gritted their teeth to eat up time but Derbyshire did not allow any player to build the big innings their side needed and won with 37 overs to spare in a performance that typified the side's Championship season, according to head of cricket Morris.

"This was a hard-fought game," he said.

"The toss was important and if we had won it, I think we would have won a lot earlier but we stayed in it, got ourselves in control and played good four-day cricket, as we have all season."