OIiver Hannon-Dalby’s stereo show powers Warwickshire to innings win
Warwickshire 549 for 7 dec (Yates 228, Maxwell 81) beat Kent 171 and 332 (Finch 67, Leaning 64, Denly 45, Hannon-Dalby 4-59) by an innings and 46 runs
Warwickshire have thrashed Kent by an innings and 46 runs of their LV= Insurance County Championship sport at Canterbury, bowling the hosts out for 332 on day three.
Oliver Hannon-Dalby took 4 for 59 within the second innings and completed with eight for 115 within the match, as Warwickshire issued a warning to their title rivals with an awesome victory.
Harry Finch made 67 and Jack Leaning 64, however the hosts had been left to rue a dismal first-innings efficiency and stay mired in a relegation battle.
Kent started day three on 55 for one, nonetheless 323 behind Warwickshire’s first innings rating of 549 for seven, with Joe Denly and Ben Compton not out on 29 and 17 respectively.
An early attraction for a catch off Compton’s shoulder drew a cry of: “Are you Australia in disguise?” from the Frank Woolley Stand and though he survived that one, he turned the morning’s first sufferer within the twenty sixth over, when he nicked Hannon-Dalby behind for 26.
Denly made 45 from 105 balls earlier than he was eliminated by Hannon-Dalby, caught by Michael Burgess after the ball appeared to ricochet off his pads.
Finch and Leaning batted via until rain introduced an early lunch at 12.52 pm. Play resumed at 2.15, with 9 balls bowled earlier than a second, briefer delay of 20 minutes, leading to a cumulative lack of 9 overs.
It was Kent’s largest stand of the match and value precisely 100, nevertheless it ended when Leaning fell right into a lure. With three fielders crowding the bat on the leg aspect he tried repeating a shot he’d performed in Yates’ earlier over and this time the bowler had him caught by Jacob Bethell.
Jordan Cox lasted 17 balls earlier than he tried to comb Yates and was lbw for 4, leaving Kent on 223 for 5 at tea.
Finch’s stubborn innings got here to an finish when Chris Rushworth bowled him off stump with the brand new ball and when Henry Brookes had Joey Evison caught behind for 37, the final of Kent’s defensive-minded batters had gone.
Grant Stewart determined to have some enjoyable, whacking successive sixes off Rushworth together with one which went right into a third-tier balcony within the Old Dover Road flats and he hung round for 44 balls, placing on 64 with Hamid Qadri earlier than he hit Hannon-Dalby to Glenn Maxwell at gully for 40.
Any real looking hopes Kent had of taking the sport right into a fourth day ended when Qadri went to the very subsequent ball, lbw to Maxwell for 30 and the victory was confirmed when Arshdeep Singh drove Hannon-Dalby to Will Rhodes at mid on within the subsequent over.