Kent (95 & 66-0) trail Hampshire (373) by 212 runs after day three of County Championship match at Canterbury

Kent will need to bat out the final day of their LV= Insurance County Championship match with Hampshire at Canterbury to rescue a draw.

The hosts still have all 10 seconds innings wickets intact after they advanced to 66-0 at the close of day three on Saturday after earlier bowling out Hampshire for 373.

Kent had started the day well, with Wes Agar taking three early wickets to help reduce Hampshire to 159-5. But the visitors kicked on after lunch and took a 278-run lead.

After day two had been reduced to just 6.1 overs, the weather finally improved on Saturday morning, with Hampshire resuming on 103-0.

Agar struck twice in the third over of the day. Fletcha Middleton was first to go, edging behind for 48 and handing Jordan Cox his first red-ball dismissal as a wicket-keeper. Agar then produced an absolute jaffa that sent Nick Gubbins’ off-stump cartwheeling.

He then had Joe Weatherley (58) lbw, but was denied a fourth victim when Zak Crawley dropped Ben Brown, although the batter failed to cash in, adding just a single before he was lbw to Grant Stewart for 10. James Vince was given lbw to Michael Hogan for 24 and Hampshire endured a spell of 7.4 overs without scoring.

Ian Holland took 36 balls to get off the mark, although when he did it was a stylish cut off Joey Evison for four and he and Liam Dawson survived to lunch.

A potentially crucial stand of 94 was ended in emphatic fashion when Evison (3-86) splayed Holland’s stumps for 41, but by then the momentum was entirely with Hampshire.

It was 308-6 and Dawson continued until he holed out to Hamid Qadri and was caught at mid-wicket by Tawanda Muyeye for 84. Kyle Abbott was lbw to Evison for two before Fuller tried to sweep a full toss from Qadri and was caught on the