Kent 261 and 71 for 1 (Bell-Drummond 39*, Compton 14*) Path Lancashire 92 and 332 (Bell 65, Hurst 58, Agar 3-65) by 93 runs
Lancashire’s younger batsmen put up a courageous battle on day three of the Vitality County Championship at Emirates Previous Trafford, however Kent want simply 93 runs with 9 wickets in hand to safe victory on the ultimate toss.
Keaton Jennings’ aspect had been bowled out for 332 of their second innings, leaving the guests 164 to win their first match of the season.
Nonetheless, Ben Compton and Daniel Bell-Drummond made mild of Zak Crawley’s loss for one within the face of a seemingly troublesome chase to steer their aspect to 71 for 1 on the shut. So there’s little likelihood that Lancashire might win the sport after occurring to steer for the primary time since 1888 after they beat Oxford College at Previous Trafford.
Nonetheless, the angle of Balderson and Bell ensured that Lancashire averted defeat within the innings and their calm accumulation was maintained by Bell and Matty Hurst both aspect of lunch.
Bell reached his second fifty of the season off 114 balls when he took a long-hope from Joe Denly to the midwicket boundary however was nicely caught by Harry Finch for 65 when he did not keep away from ball from Agar and took a catch. the goalkeeper has the suitable. However their seventh wicket of 78 took their aspect’s result in 106 and the nice work continued from Hurst and Tom Hartley, the previous reaching his 50 off 134 balls with only one 4.
Hurst and Hartley placed on their third fifty-over partnership of the day shortly after tea, however any hopes that Lancashire might set their opponents a goal of greater than 200 had been shortly extinguished after they misplaced their final three wickets for as many runs in 15 balls.
A affected person Hurst was caught by Bell-Drummond at slip off Parkinson for 58, Tom Bailey was leg earlier than Agar for a single after which Hartley was bowled around the legs by Parkinson for 35 to go away the Kent leg-spinner with figures of three for 70 on his return to Previous Trafford . Agar took 3 for 65 and returned matching values of seven for 100.
Kent’s pursuit of their modest goal acquired off to a poor begin when Crawley was a foot off Balderson’s seventh ball of the innings, however Compton and Bell-Drummond survived a sequence of assured appeals, many from Nathan Lyon, who bowled fantastically and was unfortunate to not get pleasure from it . a minimum of some success.
And the turnaround achieved by Hartley and Lyon within the night session means that Kent’s pursuit is probably not fully easy on the ultimate morning.