An exciting finish could be in prospect on the final day of the County Championship match between Kent and Lancashire at Canterbury, after the hosts reached 206-5 at stumps, a lead of 215.<\/p>\n
Although rain wiped out much of day three, with only 38.3 overs bowled, Jaydn Denly reached 74 as Kent built their lead, before Mitch Stanley helped rein them in with 2-55.<\/p>\n
With Ben Compton not expected to bat, Kent are effectively six wickets down, and the game looks fascinatingly poised going into day four.<\/p>\n
Kent resumed with a lead of 105, on 96-0, with Jaydn Denly on 55 and Ben Dawkins on 35.<\/p>\n
Dawkins had added just a single when he edged Will Williams to Keaton Jennings at first slip, but the players went off for rain at 10:56 BST and six overs were lost.<\/p>\n
When play resumed Tom Bailey sent Jaydn Denly’s off stump flying, but a further downpour resulted in an early lunch, with the score 131-2.<\/p>\n
After a two-and-a-half-hour delay, play resumed, and George Balderson – switching to the Pavilion End – had Joey Evison caught behind for 26.<\/p>\n
Joe Denly, in as a concussion sub for Tawanda Muyeye, cracked Stanley for six over mid-wicket to take Kent to 170-3 at tea. However, he rarely looked comfortable and was caught behind for 19 after flashing at the same bowler.<\/p>\n
Stanley then had Harry Finch lbw for four before the rain returned at 17:12. With no prospect of a resumption, play was abandoned for the day, with Ekansh Singh unbeaten on 30 and Mo Rizvi, who is on a pair, on nought not out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An exciting finish could be in prospect on the final day of the County Championship match between Kent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-133263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}