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Read the match report & reaction from our LV= County Championship match against Kent at The Spitfire Ground.
Day One
A Daniel Bell-Drummond century helped Kent to 271-7 against Hampshire, after a fluctuating first day in their LV= Insurance County Championship match at Canterbury.
Bell-Drummond hit 149 from 231 balls, with 25 fours and a six, as he put on 126 for the fourth wicket with Kent’s next highest scorer Jordan Cox, who made 51.
The hosts were on top for the first two sessions, but Hampshire used the new ball to bowl themselves back into contention, Keith Barker ending the day with 4-36 and Mohammad Abbas taking 2-57.
Abbas struck in the seventh over, getting Zak Crawley caught behind for seven after Kent had won the toss and chosen to bat, in sunny but blustery conditions at the St. Lawrence.
Bell-Drummond, who’d struggled in his three previous innings this season, came in at three and brought up his fifty just before lunch, cutting Mason Crane to the deep-backward point boundary. He cracked two further fours in the same over, leaving Kent on 97-1 at the end of the morning session.
Ben Compton was out shortly after the resumption, for under three figures for the first time this season, when Barker pinged back his off stump for 27, and in his very next over, the left-armer removed Tawanda Muyeye for just one, strangling him down the leg side where he was caught by Ben Brown.
Bell-Drummond remained steady and drove Mason Crane for four to bring up his hundred after a tricky last few seasons.
Kent were 177-3 at tea and Bell-Drummond ramped up the pressure early in the evening session, hitting Felix Organ for six over long on. Cox, perhaps mindful of his seven-ball dismissal in the loss to Lancashire, was less hurried, scoring at around half Bell-Drummond’s rate.
When Kyle Abbott trapped Bell-Drummond lbw in the 85th over, the momentum shifted. Although Cox reached 50 driving Abbas through long off for four, Barker then had Ollie Robinson caught behind for seven and Cox was caught behind off Abbas for 51.
Barker subsequently removed Matt Milnes for four, Liam Dawson diving low at second slip, leaving Darren Stevens, who was unbeaten on 13 and Hamid Qadri (2*) to bat out the final two overs.
