Fit Document – LANCS vs KENT twentieth Fit, Would possibly 03 – 06, 2024

Kent 261 and 71 for 1 (Bell-Drummond 39*, Compton 14*) path Lancashire 92 and 332 (Bell 65, Hurst 58, Agar 3-65) by way of 93 runs

Lancashire’s younger batters staged a gutsy fightback at the 3rd day of the Energy County Championship fit at Emirates Previous Trafford however Kent want best 93 runs with 9 wickets in hand to clinch victory at the ultimate morning.

Keaton Jennings’ workforce had been bowled out for 332 of their 2d innings, thereby leaving the guests 164 to win their first recreation of the season.

Then again, confronted with what gave the impression a tough chase, Ben Compton and Daniel Bell-Drummond made gentle of the lack of Zak Crawley for one and had prompt their facet to 71 for 1 on the shut. There’s, due to this fact, just a slender likelihood that Lancashire would possibly win a recreation after following on for the primary time since 1888, once they beat Oxford College at Previous Trafford

Then again, Balderson and Bell’s stand had ensured that Lancashire have shyed away from an innings defeat and their calm accumulation was once maintained by way of Bell and Matty Hurst both sides of lunch.

Bell reached his 2d fifty of the season off 114 balls when he pulled an extended hop from Joe Denly to the midwicket boundary however was once neatly stuck by way of Harry Finch for 65 when he could not keep away from a excellent ball from Agar and edged a catch huge to the keeper’s proper. However the pair’s seventh-wicket stand of 78 had prolonged their facet’s result in 106 and the great paintings was once endured by way of Hurst and Tom Hartley, with the previous achieving his fifty off 134 balls with just one 4.

Hurst and Hartley introduced up their facet’s 3rd 50-plus partnership of the day in a while after tea however any hopes Lancashire would possibly set their fighters a goal in way over 200 had been briefly extinguished once they misplaced their final 3 wickets for as many runs in 15 balls.

The affected person Hurst was once stuck at slip by way of Bell-Drummond off Parkinson for 58, Tom Bailey was once leg earlier than to Agar for a unmarried after which Hartley was once bowled spherical his legs by way of Parkinson for 35 to go away the Kent leg-spinner with figures of three for 70 on his go back to Previous Trafford. Agar took 3 for 65 and returned fit figures of seven for 100.

Kent’s pursuit in their modest goal started badly when Crawley was once leg earlier than to Balderson’s 7th ball of the innings however Compton and Bell-Drummond survived a chain of assured appeals, lots of them coming from Nathan Lyon, who bowled fantastically and was once unfortunate to not experience no less than some luck.

And the flip extracted by way of Hartley and Lyon within the night consultation means that Kent’s pursuit will not be utterly simple at the ultimate morning.