Earlier left-arm fast Liam Guthrie struck twice in his opening spell in his first match in Northamptonshire colors, cleansing up England Check opener Zak Crawley for one in simply the third over of the day.
Crawley by no means seemed comfy towards the Australian and fell enjoying a booming drive to an in-swinger which knocked two stumps out of the bottom.
Kent stored the scoreboard ticking earlier than skipper Daniel Bell-Drummond was caught behind pushing outdoors off-stump to present Guthrie his second scalp.
Justin Broad then accounted for Ben Compton with a full one which nipped again and knocked over off-stump.
Kent although began to seek out their groove, helped by some wayward bowling with Leaning taking three boundaries off one over from Leech whereas Muyeye introduced up a fluent half century off simply 60 balls.
After lunch Northamptonshire quickly put the brake on scoring with Guthrie virtually choosing up Muyeye on 57, however James Gross sales couldn’t maintain on at first slip.
Runs began flowing once more although because the Kent pair introduced up their 100-stand, earlier than Weatherall’s triple breakthrough. Discovering loads of bounce and motion, the 20-year-old confirmed off the additional yard of tempo he added through the winter.
First Leaning performed down the mistaken line and was caught behind. In his subsequent over Weatherall speared one again in to ship Muyeye’s off-stump cartwheeling.
In between Joey Evison additionally fell to a pointless run-out because of a relay effort between Procter and Broad with a direct hit.
With the primary ball of his subsequent over, Weatherall hit the highest off Stewart’s off-stump. He virtually picked up Keith Dudgeon later within the over however Broad shelled a simple probability at third slip. The Kent collapse continued when Leech had Harry Finch caught within the slips.
Dudgeon (26) and Singh staged a late fightback, including 34 for the ninth wicket earlier than left-arm spinner Saif Zaib nipped in to assert the ultimate two wickets in two balls though Northamptonshire had been left to rue the 38 runs they conceded in extras.
