Daniel Bell-Drummond leads Kent's resistance (147-2) after Surrey post huge total (673-7 declared) in Division 1 of the County Championship

Daniel Bell-Drummond led Kent’s resistance to Surrey’s massive total on the second day of their LV= Insurance County Championship Division 1 match at the Kia Oval on Monday.

For only the second time in their history, four batsmen made centuries in the same Championship innings as leaders Surrey piled up 673-7 with Sam Curran scoring his maiden first-class hundred and Will Jacks making an undefeated 103 to add to the first-day centuries by Ben Geddes and Hashim Amla.

Surrey’s total was a new record against Kent and only two runs more than they made at Beckenham in May when seven of their batters scored fifties - but no-one made a hundred.

Curran then picked up Ben Compton in the fourth over of Kent’s reply and they also lost Joe Denly before Bell-Drummond and stand-in skipper Jack Leaning fought back either side of a 90-minute rain delay which took 17 overs out of the day’s allocation.

Bell-Drummond reached fifty for the second successive match as Kent closed on 147-2, still 526 runs behind.

Earlier, Surrey had continued to dominate an understrength Kent attack with Curran and Jacks to the fore.

They plundered 190 runs in 26.2 overs during a morning session interrupted by a 20-minute rain delay before Surrey declared 20 minutes after lunch after Jacks on-drove Jas Singh for successive boundaries to bring up his hundred.

Curran had previously scored 29 fifties without converting any of them but he never looked like missing out against a weakened Kent attack who conceded 5.2 runs an over before their suffering ended. None of their seamers offered sufficient control and Curran did much as he pleased.

He reached his century with a straight hit off South African George Linde which brought him one of his five sixes. He also