Daniel Bell-Drummond scores 271 not out and Tawanda Muyeye 179 as Kent (550-5) lead Northamptonshire (237) by 313 runs in County Championship

27.06.2023 - 05:05 kentonline.co.uk

Daniel Bell-Drummond scored a career-best 271 not out as Kent dominated day two of their LV= Insurance County Championship match at Northamptonshire on Monday.

Opener Tawanda Muyeye scored his maiden first-class hundred but was eclipsed by Bell-Drummond who beat his previous best of 206 not out against Loughborough University at Canterbury in 2016.

Bell-Drummond’s knock is the sixth highest first-class score for Kent and he will resume in the morning just four runs short of head coach Matt Walker’s 275 not out, made against Somerset in 1996.

The only other score higher than that since the 1930s was Sean Dickson’s 318 - also against Northants - at Beckenham in 2017.

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