Kent (166-3 & 261) beat Lancashire (92 & 332) by seven wickets in County Championship Division 1 as captain Daniel Bell-Drummond ends unbeaten on 79; It is Kent’s first win at Emirates Old Trafford since 1997

Kent eased their way to an historic seven-wicket victory against Lancashire on the fourth morning at Emirates Old Trafford to clinch their first Vitality County Championship Division 1 win of the season on Monday.

Skipper Daniel Bell-Drummond led his team to their 164-run target with an excellent unbeaten 79, despite some good pressure applied by Lancashire bowlers, with Nathan Lyon (2-48) taking the two wickets to fall. It was Kent’s first victory at Old Trafford since 1997.

The visitors resumed 71-1, needing a further 93 runs to win and a tense battle developed in the first hour as Lancashire applied good pressure from the spin attack of Australian Lyon and Tom Hartley (0-42).

Both created chances but Kent’s Ben Compton and Bell-Drummond countered with some solid defence and good running while riding their luck at times on a turning wicket.

Compton survived a dropped catch when on 27, top edging a sweep off Lyon to backward square leg where a diving Will Williams initially caught the ball - only for it to be jarred out of his hands on landing.

Lyon was not to be denied for long, though. He dived to his right to take a good catch off his own bowling after Compton shuffled down the wicket and drove straight back to the bowler after making 29 with the away side 91-1 and still 73 runs away.

Bell-Drummond calmed any visiting nerves, reaching his 50 off 115 balls – he now has scored at least 50 in all four matches this season, converting two of them into centuries – and followed by hitting just the second boundary of the day, lofting Hartley to long-on.

Jack Leaning dug in alongside Bell-Drummond to make 16 but edged to Luke Wells at slip after playing back to Lyon when 35 runs were required.

Joe Denly (19 not out) helped