A big unbeaten partnership between Ben Compton and Jack Leaning saw Kent earn an opening four-day game win for the first time in six years on Easter Sunday.
Opener Compton (114 not out) and Leaning (67 not out) moved the team from 60-3 to their second-innings target of 227 and a seven-wicket LV= Insurance County Championship Division 1 success against Northamptonshire at Canterbury.
Compton said: "There was a lot riding on that, especially considering - last time we played Northants here, there was a scenario on day four where it went down to the wire - so [I'm] very chuffed that we could get over the line and sort of redeem ourselves. "It was a fantastic team performance. "I think there were a lot of waves in this game, ebbs and flows.
I thought we started really well with the ball in the first innings and Zak [Crawley] set things up beautifully for us in the first innings. "Second innings, it was a bit of a toil.