Kent started well, despite losing Ben Dawkins, in for the injured Ben Compton, when he was caught and bowled by Haydon for six.<\/p>\n
Crawley had looked in decent touch, producing some punishing cover drives before he was bowled middle stump, trying to drive Martin Andersson.<\/p>\n
It was still looking like Kent’s session until Ben Aitchison took a wicket with his first ball, getting Sam Northeast caught by Caleb Jewell at second slip for 28.<\/p>\n
Zak Chappell then strangled Tawanda Muyeye for nine, leaving Kent on 99-4 at lunch.<\/p>\n
Ekansh Singh and Bell-Drummond made a bright start to the afternoon session with a stand worth 54.<\/p>\n
That was broken when Haydon had the former lbw for 20 and Bell-Drummond then narrowly survived when he was on 41. A Haydon delivery hit his hand and he just managed to paddle it clear before it hit the stumps.<\/p>\n
He cashed in with some style and swept Aitchison to backward square to reach three figures – 12 years after he made his last century against Derbyshire, at this venue.<\/p>\n
The Kent balcony erupted with joy and Benjamin, Kent’s most consistent batter this season, then took a single from the same bowler to reach 50, leaving Kent on 265-5 at tea.<\/p>\n
Haydon had Benjamin lbw soon after, however, while Bell-Drummond finally went when he cut Chappell to Andersson.<\/p>\n
Joey Evison pulled Chappell for a six that pinged off a rail in the top deck of the Les Ames Pavilion, but he was out for 21 when he slashed Aitchison to Andersson at backward point and Keith Dudgeon bludgeoned a quick 13 before he edged Haydon to first slip, where Wayne Madsen held on to a chance that was travelling at high speed – for his 400th catch in all formats.<\/p>\n
A crowd of nearly 1,200 cheered when Jas Singh hit the single that gave Kent a third bonus point, but the innings was wrapped up when Haydon sent Singh’s off stump flying to bring up his maiden five-wicket haul.<\/p>\n
Jewell narrowly avoided playing on to Matt Milnes during a tricky five-over spell before stumps, but the visitors’ gamble on not using a night-watcher paid off, with Harry Came and Jewell on 16 and eight not out respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kent started well, despite losing Ben Dawkins, in for the injured Ben Compton, when he was caught and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-643602","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\/643602","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=643602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}