Kent reach 45-1 in reply to Surrey's record-breaking score of 671-9 declared at Beckenham

Kent captain Jack Leaning has urged his batsmen to deliver on day three against Surrey.

The hosts ended their LV= Insurance County Championship clash with Division 1 leaders Surrey still trailing by a massive 626 runs.

Surrey declared their first innings on 671-9, with Kent reaching 45-1 for the loss of England opener Zak Crawley for 17 at Beckenham.

After nearly two days in the field, Leaning said: "There are some pretty tired bodies up there to be honest but we’ve understood it’s a pretty good pitch.

"We know that we were under par with the ball and as a batting unit now it’s our turn to stand up and do what they’ve done to us and post a massive score.

“I just think we were lacking a bit of consistency throughout the innings.

"In patches we were very good, certainly what we showed after lunch on day one is what we’re capable of as a bowling unit, but I don’t think we quite did that for long enough.

"The pitch is a good one and the balls get soft as they get older but, credit to them, they batted well and didn’t really give us a sniff to be honest.

“As soon as you take the mindset of just batting time I think you lose your intent and it allows a team to bowl at you.

"We’ve got a big two days ahead of us and hopefully we can come out of it with at least a draw.”

Surrey broke the world record for the highest score without a batsman making a hundred, and equalled the first-class record of seven for the number of players making half-centuries without passing three figures.

After Ollie Pope and Ryan Patel had made 96 and 76 respectively on day one, Jamie Overton smacked 93 from 92 balls, Ben Foakes made 91, Sam Curran hit 78, Colin de Grandhomme scored 66 and Jordan Clark 54 not out.

Kent hosts maintained their record of