A defiant unbeaten century from Tawanda Muyeye in the face of some probing Durham bowling handed Kent a draw on the final day of an enthralling County Championship game.<\/p>\n
At the start of the day, it was Durham in the ascendency, but Kent struck back as the hosts lost five wickets in the first hour. However, Ben Raine led a recovery from the lower order, and Durham managed to set Kent a target of 357 after they declared on 218-9.<\/p>\n
Kent’s chase got off to a poor start, but a partnership of 124 between Muyeye and Daniel Bell-Drummond steadied the ship, yet there was another twist as a double blow handed Durham renewed hope of a win.<\/p>\n
However, Muyeye and Chris Benjamin held on to secure their side a draw, as Kent closed on 234-5.<\/p>\n
After no play on day three, Durham pair Ben McKinney and David Bedingham resumed for their side on 83-2, a lead of 221.<\/p>\n
Matt Milnes struck early for Kent, as he dislodged McKinney’s off-stump meaning the opener had to depart for 38.<\/p>\n
Graham Clark then departed for three, handing Glenton Stuurman a wicket, as a leading edge flew to Ben Compton at point. Colin Ackermann was then caught behind off the bowling of Keith Dudgeon for one just moments later.<\/p>\n
South African Bedingham was dismissed soon after, as Milnes struck again, bowling Durham’s talisman for a well-made 48.<\/p>\n
Dudgeon struck again, with Ollie Robinson his next victim for four after he chipped one to Muyeye in the covers.<\/p>\n
Raine managed to relieve some of the pressure on Durham by thrashing a Dudgeon delivery to the legside boundary.<\/p>\n
Kasey Aldridge then played a lovely drive through the covers, but Grant Stewart bowled Aldridge for a handy 18, dislodging his middle stump.<\/p>\n
Raine continued to play nicely and Matthew Potts joined in, smashing a Joey Evison ball down the ground for six, but Raine was then bowled by Evison for a vital 43.<\/p>\n
Durham then declared at lunch, with the score sitting at 218-9 declared, setting Kent a target of 357.<\/p>\n
Crawley and Ben Compton opened the batting for Kent after lunch, but Compton departed for eight as he edged a Roach delivery to Aldridge at second slip.<\/p>\n
Crawley resumed his battle with England teammate Potts and played a delightful shot through the covers for four.<\/p>\n
However, Potts then got Crawley for the second time in the match, with the England opener lbw for 20.<\/p>\n
Raine then backed that up with the vital wicket of Northeast for 10, as he sent the Kent man’s stumps flying.<\/p>\n
Durham very nearly had a fourth Kent wicket as Bell-Drummond edged an Aldridge delivery on four, but the diving Emilio Gay couldn’t cling on.<\/p>\n
Another chance was missed shortly after, with Muyeye driving one to Alex Lees at cover, but the Durham skipper could not cling on to a tricky chance with the batter on nine.<\/p>\n
The pair then took the sting out the game for Kent, with Muyeye playing some glorious shots including one through the covers off Roach.<\/p>\n
Muyeye continued his vital knock for Kent with a boundary from the first ball after tea and he reached his fifty from 62 deliveries. Muyeye then hit a four on the legside to bring up the 100 partnership.<\/p>\n
However, a double blow sparked the game back into life after the game was seemingly petering out, with Bell-Drummond edging a Potts ball to Aldridge and Evison then fell for a duck, lbw to Raine.<\/p>\n
Muyeye remained though, much to Durham’s frustration, and he and Benjamin remained solid in defence.<\/p>\n
Muyeye then made it to the 90s and had a nervy moment when an airborne shot landed in between three Durham fielders, but he reached his century from 116 balls.<\/p>\n
The two sides then shook hands with nine overs remaining.<\/p>\n
Report supplied by the ECB Reporters Network, supported by Rothesay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A defiant unbeaten century from Tawanda Muyeye in the face of some probing Durham bowling handed Kent a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-516747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}