Kent reach 81-6 after following on during day three of County Championship game with Lancashire at Canterbury after making 260 in first innings

Kent are heading to a heavy defeat against Lancashire after losing 13 wickets on day three of their LV= Insurance County Championship Division 1 clash at Canterbury.

The hosts will resume the final day on 81-6, still needing another 165 to make the visitors bat again.

Kent were bowled out for 260 in their first innings and, with a lead of 246, Lancashire immediately enforced the follow on.

Matt Parkinson has match figures of 6-88 while George Balderson has taken 4-16, to put the visitors in a dominant position.

Ben Compton made an unbeaten 104 in Kent’s first innings, having been stuck on 99 for 38 minutes, and he was unbeaten on 20 at stumps, having witnessed all 16 dismissals from the other end and having been on the pitch for every minute of all three days. In total, Compton faced 421 balls over 571 minutes for an unbeaten aggregate score of 124.

All nine wickets to fall on day two had been taken by spinners (six for Hamidullah Qadri, three for Parkinson) but pace finally counted after half an hour, when night-watchman Qadri (10), who’d already taken a violent blow to the right shoulder, saw his off stump pinged back by Tom Bailey.

Jordan Cox then lost his off-stump to Hasan Ali for two, but Ollie Robinson hung around for just over an hour to make 27 before he was lbw to Parkinson, leaving Kent on 204-6 at lunch, having resumed on 133-3.

Darren Stevens made just six before he was lbw to Ali but the afternoon’s main plot concerned Compton, who moved to 99 with a single off Bailey in the 87th over and then faced four successive maidens while nearly running out of partners.

While Compton was marooned on 99, Matt Milnes was caught behind off George Balderson for 22 and Nathan Gilchrist was caught by Luke Wells off the