Rob Yates’ career-best 228 leaves Kent feeling de-feathered
Kent 171 and 55 for 1 (Denly 29*, Compton 17*) path Warwickshire 549 for 7 dec (Yates 228, Maxwell 81) by 323 runs
A double-century from Rob Yates put Warwickshire in a commanding place after day two of their LV= Insurance County Championship sport with Kent at Canterbury.
The guests declared their first innings on 549 for seven, a lead of 378, earlier than decreasing Kent to 55 for one at stumps.
Yates hit his highest first-class rating of 228 not out from 421 balls, with 23 fours and a six, having batted for practically 9 hours. Australia’s Glenn Maxwell made 81 in his first championship look for 4 years and Henry Brookes was unbeaten on 52 because the guests dominated all through.
Chris Rushworth bowled Tawanda Muyeye early in Kent’s second innings and though Ben Compton and Joe Denly survived until the shut, the hosts are nonetheless 323 behind with two days remaining.
Warwickshire started the day on 155 for 2 and so they’d nudged right into a three-run lead when Sam Hain edged Arshdeep Singh and fell to a diving catch by Jordan Cox for 32.
Jacob Bethell instantly went on the assault, clubbing Hamid Qadri for a six that flew into the gardens on the Old Dover Road facet of the bottom. The ball was misplaced, someplace within the neighborhood of a lifeless pigeon it had apparently hit.
Kent’s hopes have been wanting practically as lifeless when Jack Leaning briefly revived them with two wickets in 5 balls. Bethell was out for 31, caught by a back-pedalling Arshdeep at deep mid-on for 31 and Ed Barnard went for a four-ball duck, narrowly surviving an lbw shout off the third ball he confronted earlier than getting caught behind.
This spasm of hope for the house facet rapidly subsided as Yates and Maxwell placed on a stand of 124. The former reached three figures when he lower Arshdeep to 3rd man and the lead was precisely 100 at lunch.
Maxwell appeared set for 100, however he was caught behind chasing a large supply from Matt Quinn, although with the lead already previous the 200 mark there was little celebration both within the center or on the boundary.
The most dramatic second of the afternoon session got here when Yates hit Qadri for a six that went to date over the bowler’s head that it ended up smashing a glass panel on the balcony of the Kent dressing-room.
Yates cruised previous his earlier highest rating of 141 with a straight-driven 4 off Grant Stewart and it was 442 for six at tea.
Michael Burgess was subsequently out for 42, caught off Quinn by Harry Finch at backward level however Yates survived a significant scare when he was on 199, chipping a ball from Qadri simply out of attain of three fielders, earlier than he drove the subsequent ball by the covers to cross 200.
The declaration got here as quickly as Brookes had creamed Leaning for six to achieve his half-century, leaving Kent with 14 overs to outlive below more and more ashen skies.
Muyeye lasted simply 5 balls earlier than Rushworth despatched his off stump flying and though Denly and Compton made it to the shut on 29 and 17 respectively, Kent will want one thing approaching a miracle over the subsequent two days to keep away from a harmful defeat.