Head coach Matt Walker says Kent 'disintegrated' as Hampshire take charge after day two of County Championship match at Canterbury

Kent trail Hampshire by 32 runs after a disappointing day two of their LV= Insurance County Championship match at Canterbury.

Resuming at 271-7, Kent were bowled out for 305 before the visitors reached 337-4 at stumps with Nathan Gilchrist taking 3-71, including the wicket of James Vince who made 111.

Kent head coach Matt Walker said: “We started OK, bowled quite well for the first 10 overs or so and threatened nicely, then the wheels sort of came off in that second session - 172 runs and 30-odd boundaries is well below our standard.

"They [the players] know that. We just couldn’t get our lengths right and couldn’t get our lines right. We just didn’t really have an answer.

“[Keith] Barker and [Mohammad] Abbas just stayed in the channel and that was our plan, we just didn’t get it right. Certainly in that middle session we didn’t create any pressure at all, there were too many leak balls.

"From 230-3 to be 305 all out is another frustrating collapse. It’s deja vu from last year, really.

“We get ourselves in a pretty good position, somebody plays pretty well and a partnership forms, we look in control and all of a sudden we have a session when we disintegrate. We were aiming for 400-plus at one stage, so to just scrape past 300 we knew we were probably going to be short.”

Conditions were cloudy and windy when play began and Barker, who returned 4-36 on day one, completed his five-wicket haul when he had Darren Stevens caught behind for 23. Stevens looked underwhelmed by the decision and a loud thud could be heard from the direction of the pavilion shortly afterwards.

Gilchrist lasted six balls before falling in identical fashion in Barker’s next over, without scoring, and Jackson Bird was caught off Abbas (3-57) by