Kent restrict Northants to 347-7 in reply to 519-9 declared after day three in County Championship

Kent need three quick wickets on the final day of their LV= County Championship clash with Northants.

The hosts closed day three on 347-7, edging closer to saving the follow-on but still with work to do when play resumes on Sunday morning.

Kent bowling coach Simon Cook said: “The discipline throughout the whole of the day was brilliant with all of the bowlers and we got the rewards at the end of the day.

"You’ve just got to hope we can get a couple of quick ones tomorrow and we can enforce the follow-on if that's possible.

“It will come down to the first half an hour. On these sorts of pitches, it's tough. And hopefully that kind of nervousness around getting close to that total will mean that we can capitalise on that.

"It’s, realistically, the only way we'll probably be able to force a result.

“The difference from this game to some of the other games is we held our lengths for longer. When things weren't really happening, we created a lot of opportunities with the new ball.

"There’s lots going past the outside edge, but once that new ball went away and it got a bit softer, our disciplines were much better either staying very straight or going into the channel and that brought the rewards.

"Once you can hold your lines and hold your lengths, it's much easier to set fields and then suddenly those balls kind of go and get clipped to midwicket where we had a couple of catches and the game suddenly feels a little bit easier and you feel like you can control the game for bigger periods.

"It's very nice to have 500 on the board first up as well. It’s the first time we've really led a game this year and it shows that when we can get on top, we're a very strong side. Our challenge going forwards is can we wrestle games back