Northamptonshire were frustrated by the rain on the final day of their County Championship match with Kent at Canterbury, which ended in a draw.<\/p>\n
The visitors took two early wickets in the morning session to reduce Kent to 179-5, but they were unable to make further inroads before rain stopped play at 12.30pm. When play finally resumed Ben Compton and Daniel Bell-Drummond batted for 14 overs to secure the draw.<\/p>\n
The visitors’ Harry Conway finished with match figures of 7-95. Compton was unbeaten on 114 at stumps, while Bell-Drummond was 36 not out. <\/p>\n
Kent’s chances had looked slim when they resumed on 162-3 overnight, with Compton unbeaten on 70 and the night-watcher Singh on 0.<\/p>\n
Singh was the first to go, trying to fend off a Conway bouncer and gloving it behind for two. Sanderson then removed Tawanda Muyeye, lbw for four, but Bell-Drummond joined Compton and batted through until the rain forced an early lunch, with Kent on 231-5.<\/p>\n
Compton was stranded on 99 and play didn’t resume until 5.05pm, with 60 overs lost.<\/p>\n
When the match finally did get back under way Compton looked vulnerable to the first three deliveries he faced, but after he took a single from Harrison to reach three figures there were few serious alarms. The players shook hands on the draw at 5.55pm.<\/p>\n
Report by ECB Reporters’ Network, supported by Rothesay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northamptonshire were frustrated by the rain on the final day of their County Championship match with Kent at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-528972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528972","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=528972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}