Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, St Lawrence Floor, Canterbury (day 4)
Kent 416 & 257: Bell-Drummond 60; Sharma 4-40
Middlesex 443: Holden 182 & 181: Gohar 66*; Milnes 5-31
Kent (23 pts) beat Middlesex (7 pts) by 49 runs
Kent beat Middlesex by 49 runs on an exhilarating last day within the County Championship at Canterbury.
Matt Milnes took 5-31 because the guests have been dismissed for 181, within the last session.
Middlesex seemed heavy favourites once they dismissed Kent for 257. Naavya Sharma took 4-40 and Tom Helm 4-72, setting Middlesex a goal of 231.
However they lurched to 93-7 and though Zafar Gohar went down swinging in with an unbeaten 66, he in the end ran out of companions, with Keith Dudgeon wrapping up the win when he pinned Sharma lbw with 26 overs remaining.
Kent began day 4 with a lead of 206, however had added solely 24 when Dudgeon was the final man out for 37.
Milnes added solely three to his in a single day rating of eight when he flicked Helm to Ben Geddes at high quality leg and Sharma received Matt Parkinson lbw for a duck within the subsequent over.
Dudgeon pulled Sharma for a six over sq. leg after which received 4 from a Toby Roland-Jones misfield, however he hit the very subsequent supply, from Helm, straight to the identical fielder.
Milnes ignited Kent’s hopes when he bowled Sam Robson for seven with one which nipped again and despatched his off stump flying.
Ben Geddes was on six when he had a serious stroke of luck, hitting a Hasan Mahmud supply that that rolled onto his leg stump with out sufficient drive to dislodge the bail, however Milnes then received him lbw for 11.
After Leus du Plooy had displayed a Midas contact on day three, it was Daniel Bell-Drummond’s flip to have an impressed day as captain.
Dudgeon changed Milnes on the Nackington Highway Finish and despatched two of Max Holden’s stumps flying, bowling him for 9.
He then bowled Leus du Plooy, who performed on for 13, ending the session with Middlesex on 52-4.
Joe Cracknell was on 16 when Milnes discovered his edge and the ball looped to Sam Northeast at second.
Bell-Drummond then introduced Grant Stewart again from the Pavilion Finish and he received Seb Morgan lbw together with his third ball.
And when he switched Hasan Mahmud to the Nackington Highway Finish, his first ball bowled Caleb Falconer for 12.
Gohar and Roland-Jones produced the most important partnership of the innings, after Milnes couldn’t fairly reel in Roland-Jones when he pulled Hasan to midwicket. They reduce the deficit to double figures and had reached 134-7 at tea.
They’d simply accomplished a 50 stand when Milnes trapped Roland-Jones lbw for 17. Gohar nudged Milnes for a single to achieve his half-century, however he then misplaced Helm, lbw for 4, once more to Milnes, with 64 nonetheless wanted.
Gohar battled on, producing a sublime cowl drive off Milnes, however with 50 wanted Dudgeon returned to the Nackington Highway Finish and received Sharma lbw for a duck.
