birmingham staged a stunning late comeback to grab a 2 2 draw against derby as the rams missed the chance to go top of the championship county had looked in control after jamie ward's first goal since september and a tom ince strike had put them 2 0 up but birmingham silenced the ipro stadium by drawing level in stoppage time through a paul caddis penalty and a clayton donaldson goal it was not the result derby wanted on a day when the crowd stood to join in a minute's applause before the game for former rams great and manager dave mackay, who died on monday at the age of 80 clayton donaldson (centre) was birmingham city's hero as he scored a late equaliser against derby  donaldson (centre) headed home a 96th minute equaliser as birmingham city drew 2 2 at derby  donaldson's goal sparked pandemonium on the birmingham bench after they battled back from 2 0 down  derby: grant, christie, keogh, albentosa, forsyth, hendrick, mascarell, hughes (bryson 80), ince, russell (dawkins 83), ward (lingard 74) subs not used: buxton,   roos, thomas, shotton goals: ward 20, ince 48  booked: christie, forsyth, ince birmingham: randolph, caddis, spector, kiernan, grounds, tesche, davis, cotterill, shinnie (thomas 64), dyer (gray 74), novak (donaldson 64) subs not used: robinson,   reilly, zigic, doyle goals: caddis 90+2, donaldson 90+6  booked: cotterill, dyer  referee: iain williamson  attendance: 31,522  the opener came as will hughes played in johnny russell just inside the area in the 20th minute and, although his low shot was parried by darren randolph, ward arrived to score with a cross shot that struck the inside of a post and bounced over the line hughes rattled the bar with a left footed shot from 20 yards following a short corner in the 27th minute and jeff hendrick put ince through five minutes later only for the winger to lose control but the speed of derby's passing and movement was starting to stretch birmingham and when ward got away down the left in the 39th minute, david cotterill was booked for a blatant trip the half ended on a flash point with birmingham boss gary rowett involved in a heated exchange on the touchline with several derby players after he felt russell should have given the ball back to his team instead of kicking into the corner rowett saw his team fall further behind three minutes after the break when hughes found ince on the right edge of the area and he slipped past two defenders before driving a low shot inside randolph's right post the match was marked with a tribute to former derby player dave mackay   who died earlier this week  jamie ward (right) opened the scoring for derby county in their 2 2 draw at home to birmingham city  ward celebrates his first half strike for the rams in front of a jubilant home support  birmingham city players look despondent after conceding the opener during saturday's championship clash  derby were close to a third minutes later when russell had a shot blocked and craig forsyth's follow up was scrambled away but birmingham showed they were still in the game when cotterill curled a free kick narrowly wide in the 57th minute rowett made a double substitution in the 64th minute but derby carried the greater threat with hughes having a 20 yard shot charged down after ince set him up birmingham had a chance to pull a goal back in the 77th minute when the ball broke to clayton donaldson 12 yards out but forsyth got across to put the ball behind for a corner which lee grant held comfortably the game was turned on its head in stoppage time when robert tesche was tripped by ince and caddis sent grant the wrong way with the penalty then, with the home fans screaming for the final whistle, birmingham won a corner which was scrambled in by donaldson after wesley thomas hooked the ball back to secure a dramatic point birmingham city's rob kieran (left) challenges for a 50/50 ball with derby's johnny russell  robert tesche (right) skips past the challenge of derby midfielder will hughes during saturday's clash  a scuffle broke out between both sets of players as they walked down towards the tunnel at half time  derby midfielder tom ince doubled their lead on 48 minutes as the rams looked on course to seal victory  ince (centre right) curled home a stunning left footed effort into the bottom corner of the birmingham net  the england under 21 international jumps with joy after netting against birmingham at the ipro stadium  birmingham defender paul caddis started the comeback with an injury time penalty in the second half 
birmingham paul caddis jamie ward 96th minute tom ince clayton donaldson early in the second half 20 minutes second derby rams
jamie ward gave derby the lead on 20 minutes with a left footed shot  tom ince doubled the rams' lead early in the second half  paul caddis scored an injury time second half penalty for birmingham  clayton donaldson rescued a point for the visitors with a 96th minute effort 