Downcast Kent provide simple pickings

Glamorgan 18 for 1 path Kent 302 (Denly 152, Hogan 4-44)

Joe Denly‘s 23rd top quality century led a bright Kent fightback on the gap day of their Specsavers County Championship match with Division Two rivals Glamorgan in Canterbury.

The hosts had misplaced four wickets and Denly had but to catch off the label after Glamorgan’s tempo assault made a fiery originate on a neatly-grassed pitch, but 31-year-frail Denly dug in to post his fourth championship ton of the summer and lead the hosts to relative riches at 302 all out.

In the 13 overs thru to stumps, Glamorgan reached 18 for 1 to path by 284 runs. The company, who named seven graduates from the junior Welsh ranks in their beginning XI, misplaced Carve Selman within the third over to a take at the wicket off Adam Milne, but performed with spirit thereafter in like a flash fading gentle.

Batting first when Glamorgan opted to bowl after an uncontested toss, Kent had been indebted to No. 3 Denly for contributing over half the residence total and for salvaging the innings from the depths of 39 for 4.

Kent misplaced both openers all the map thru the principle 37 deliveries of the match. Sean Dickson, prodding exterior off in opposition to Michael Hogan, edged low to David Lloyd at trot, then, to the next supply from Lucas Carey, Daniel Bell-Drummond aimed an mountainous power without transferring his toes and feathered one even though to the gloves of Chris Cooke.

The Kent malaise worsened when skipper Sam Northeast chased a huge, floating away-swinger from Carey to be caught at trot and quickly after, Sam Billings’ 14-ball cease ended for 18. Pushing on the abet foot to a Rory Smith away-swinger that started on a fourth-stump line and kept swinging, Billings lamely adopted to edge to the keeper. The ideally suited-hander additionally stood his ground, forcing umpire Nigel Cowley, officiating in his closing sport, to preserve the finger.

With Denly becalmed on a single for 45 minutes, the hosts at closing raised their 50 within the 19th over, but the interval entirely served to destroy Zak Crawley’s concentration and his useful contribution ended within the 2nd over after the resumption. Aiming a leg-facet flick in opposition to Hogan, he came upon a innovative to balloon a in point of fact easy take to mid-off.

Hogan struck but again quickly after, snaring Darren Stevens lbw with an off-cutter that darted abet up the slope while Stevens shouldered hands.

Denly and Callum Haggett joined forces to be able to add a useful 87 till Haggett fell just earlier than tea, departing lbw after working across the line of a Lloyd in-swinger.

Denly came upon one more willing ally in Milne who performed some see-catching drives in transferring to 33 for his part in an eighth-wicket stand of 57. Milne ought to private long gone for 28 when he skied to deep square leg, entirely to be downed by Connor Brown. The blunder mattered little, alternatively, as Milne quickly nicked to trot in opposition to Craig Meschede to spark a secondary give map.

Denly posted his 10,000th bustle in top quality cricket and moved previous 150 from 200 balls but, after 300 minutes at the crease, he danced down the pitch to Lloyd aiming an mountainous lofted shot entirely to be bowled.

Kent debutant Grant Stewart acquired off the label with a rasping pulled boundary in opposition to Smith but, with the fresh ball on the market, Hogan returned to private closing man Imran Qayyum caught at 2nd trot Hogan accomplished with 4 for 44, but Kent additionally had reason to be chuffed with a comeback that finally reaped three batting bonus facets.