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Bottom side Kent were skittled out for just 95 on the opening day of their LV= Insurance County Championship match with Hampshire at Canterbury on Thursday.
Captain Tom Westley (Championship and 50-over Cup) Coach: Anthony McGrath Last season: 4th
Jack Leaning celebrated his second century of the season to boost Kent’s hopes of avoiding relegation from LV= Insurance County Championship Division 1 on Wednesday.
In cricket (especially in England) there are always two opponents: the team you are playing and the weather. Sometimes, the weather is working with you, sometimes it’s against you, but it’s always an active participant in the contest. Long may it be so.
It will come as cold comfort to Adam Lyth (183) and Jonny Tattersall (180*) to learn that Adam Dale and Viv Richards once made double centuries in a first innings – and also lost. Perhaps once every 29 years is often enough though.
Simon Harmer scored career-best match figures in the LV= Insurance County Championship Division One as Essex beat Hampshire in a nail-biting victory, winning by 12 runs in three days.
A first-class cricket match can lounge across days in the sunshine, chewing on a blade of grass as the world goes by – many championship matches in the now completed spring tranche had that feel to them. Or mayhem can erupt as one team tumbles down a rabbit hole to swift defeat – such was the fate of Somerset at home to Hampshire.
Pakistan pacer Hasan Ali continued his rich vein of form in the ongoing County Championship as he picked up yet another five-wicket haul for Lancashire during their Division One game against Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton on Thursday. On Day 1, Hasan picked up the wickets of Liam Dawson, Ben Brown, Keith Barker, Kyle Abbott, and compatriot Mohammad Abbas, finishing with figures of five for 15. He now leads the wicket-taking charts across both divisions of the County Championship.