Worcestershire 80 for two (Lategan 35*, Mahmud 2-29) Kent 238 (Bell-Drummond 52, Taylor 3-55) vs
Worcestershire shaded day one in every of their Rothesay County Championship match with at Canterbury, reaching 80 for two at stumps to path by 158.
Hasan Mahmud then took two wickets in two balls to scale back the guests to 26 for two, however they recovered with an unbroken stand of 54 between, Daniel Lategan and Adam Hose, who had been unbeaten on 35 and 24 respectively.
On a doubtlessly pivotal day within the Division Two promotion race, fourth-placed Worcestershire selected to bowl at second-placed Kent below leaden skies, and obtained Zak Crawley for six within the fourth over. The England man edged Ben Allison to second slip and though Hose initially dropped him, he caught his arms out and simply grabbed the ball earlier than it hit the turf.
Taylor then strangled Ben Compton for eight however Hose spilled Tawanda Muyeye when he nicked Matthew Waite whereas on 10. With Sam Northeast, Muyeye steered Kent to 90 for two when rain compelled an early lunch at 12.25pm.
The primary over after the resumption was eventful, with Muyeye taking Adam Finch for ten runs earlier than inexplicably swishing him to Waite at midwicket. Finch then had Northeast caught behind for 43 off an inside edge.
Bell-Drummond hit Allison for 3 consecutive fours to achieve 18, however obtained a life when he edged him, straight to second, the place Hose once more missed a easy likelihood.
Chris Benjamin made a helpful 40 earlier than Beyers Swanepoel had him caught behind off an inside edge and though Bell-Drummond reached 50 simply earlier than tea, he was lbw to Waite within the second over after it.
Grant Stewart nicked Waite behind for 19, and Matt Milnes made seven earlier than Tom Taylor had him caught by Allison at first. Dudgeon then nicked Allison behind for eight and the bottom workers had been revving the tractor earlier than Matt Quinn even arrived on the crease. He holed out to Taylor and Kent had been all out with 25 overs remaining.
Worcestershire went to 26 with out loss earlier than Hasan took two wickets in two balls on the finish of the sixth. He bowled Jake Libby for 18, hitting center and off, then had Rehaan Edavalath lbw for a golden duck. But Lategan survived a toe-crusher from Hasan and was trying set when the sunshine failed with 4.1 overs remaining.