{"id":773739,"date":"2026-09-17T15:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773739\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T15:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:32:14","slug":"county-championship-kent-beat-lancashire-to-boost-promotion-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773739\/","title":{"rendered":"County Championship: Kent beat Lancashire to boost promotion hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury (day three)<\/p>\n

Lancashire 161: Ahmed 5-42, Milnes 4-28 & 192: Harris 48; Dudgeon 3-51<\/p>\n

Kent 214: Crawley 84; Stanley 4-61 & 142-3: Northeast 48*<\/p>\n

Kent (19 pts) beat Lancashire (3 pts) by seven wickets<\/p>\n

Match scorecard<\/a> <\/p>\n

Kent remain firmly in the County Championship Division Two promotion race after they beat Lancashire by seven wickets at Canterbury.<\/p>\n

Needing just 56 to win at the start of play, having resumed on 84-2, they coasted home after just 18.3 overs on day three, finishing on 142-3.<\/p>\n

Tom Bailey had Tawanda Muyuye lbw for 43, but Sam Northeast finished on 48 not out, while Daniel Bell-Drummond hit the winning runs, to finish unbeaten on 19.<\/p>\n

Kent were 84-2 when play began at midday, chasing 140 to win, after a 90-minute delay due to rain.<\/p>\n

Although Muyeye hit James Anderson’s first ball of the day through cover for four, Lancashire did not make it easy for the home side. <\/p>\n

Muyeye was out to Bailey in the fourth over of the session, but with so few runs to defend they stood little realistic chance.<\/p>\n

The biggest round of applause of the day came when it was announced the scheduled lunch interval would be delayed until there was a result and during the extension Bell-Drummond cracked Balderson for four to seal the victory.<\/p>\n

ECB Reporters’ Network supported by Rothesay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury (day three) Lancashire 161: Ahmed 5-42, Milnes 4-28 &…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-773739","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\/773739","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=773739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}