Kent survive late scare after Nottinghamshire flip the tables at Canterbury
Nottinghamshire 265 (Mullaney 86, Nijjar 4-67) and 348 (Clarke 141*, Hogan 5-63) drew with Kent 446 (Crawley 158, Leaning 64, Bell-Drummond 60) and 86 for six (Muyeye 28, Fernando 3-40)
Kent escaped with a draw of their LV= Insurance County Championship recreation with Nottinghamshire after almost imploding in pursuit of a goal of 168. The hosts had been grateful for former Notts gamers Joey Evison and Ben Compton, who blocked for almost 20 overs after Asitha Fernando took three fast wickets to assist scale back them to 59 for 5. Kent had been 86 for six when the captains shook palms.
On a ultimate day at Canterbury that veered between tedium and excessive rigidity, Notts had been bowled out for 348 of their second innings, after being pressured to comply with on. A recreation that Kent appeared more likely to win after which appeared to be heading for a draw ignited within the ultimate session. When Joe Clarke and Brett Hutton got here collectively within the day’s seventh over, Notts had been nonetheless trailing Kent’s first innings rating of 446 by one, with simply three second innings wickets remaining.
Clarke batted for 277 balls to make 141, and he put 148 for the eighth wicket with Hutton, who made a career-best knock of 84. By the time their partnership was damaged Notts had been 147 forward and when Yuzvendra Chahal then took two wickets in as many balls it arrange a fraught finale. Having dominated for a lot of the first three days, Kent could not resist the goal and ended up enduring a nerve-shredding ultimate hour.
Nottinghamshire started the day on 177 for five of their second innings and appeared like they may not survive the primary hour. After a begin delayed until 11:20am by rain, Kent took the brand new ball as quickly because it turned obtainable and Michael Hogan used it to take two wickets from as many balls. His fourth supply removed Lyndon James for 39 after he edged him to Jack Leaning at second slip, ending a stand of 102 and Calvin Harrison went lbw to the following supply.
Hutton took a single from the hat-trick ball to carry the scores stage and performed like he was decided to set Kent a goal, advancing to 48 not out at lunch, at which level it was 235 for 7, a lead of 54. He reached 50 with a single from Nathan Gilchrist and because the recreation started to float away from Kent, Clarke drove Hogan for 4 to achieve three figures.
There had been few possibilities however the recreation sparked to life when Hutton blocked a supply from Nijjar and Clarke hared midway down the wicket earlier than he realised his companion hadn’t moved. Chahal ran him out out by a yard.
Still bruised by their defeat at Middlesex, Nottinghamshire appeared unlikely to declare and appeared comfy sufficient at 348 for eight at tea, however Chahal had Paterson caught by Daniel Bell-Drummond for 5 with the fourth ball of the night session and he wrapped up the innings two balls later when Zak Crawley caught Asitha Fernando for a duck.
Kent had been scenting what would have been solely their third red-ball win of the season, however they approached the chase as in the event that they had been enjoying Blast cricket as a substitute of a modest five-an-over. Crawley was despatched out to open alongside Tawanda Muyeye as a substitute of his common companion Ben Compton, however after crunching Paterson for 4 he hit the following supply straight to James at deep sq. leg.
Fernando then had Bell-Drummond caught for 4 by Harrison at slip, Jack Leaning was run out for six chasing a single that existed solely in his head and Muyeye tried to hook Fernando and fell to an acrobatic Tom Moores seize.
With Kent reeling on 52 for 4, Compton was despatched out to drop anchor, however Fernando produced a jaffa to ship Harry Finch’s off stump flying for seven. When Joey Evison joined Compton, with a minimal 19.1 overs remaining, they made no try and chase the runs.
After an hour’s resistance, Ben Slater caught the latter off Matt Montgomery, however Nijjar and Evison nearly clung on. Kent take 12 factors and Nottinghamshire eight.