Martin van Jaarsveld not enough for Kent as they go down to Warwickshire in the LV County Championship
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A battling unbeaten century from Martin van Jaarsveld
failed to prevent Kent from slipping to a 95-run defeat against
fellow LV= County Championship Division 1 strugglers Warwickshire
at Edgbaston on Thursday.
Chasing an unlikely victory target of 324, Kent resumed day
three on 131-5 but slumped to 161-9 before van Jaarsveld (110 not
out) and Matt Coles (13) added 67 or the last wicket to delay the
home side.
The result - in a match which saw 35 wickets fall in the first
six sessions - left Kent in the bottom two and facing an immediate
return to Division 2, with only matches against Hampshire and
Yorkshire to come.
A stand of 118 between home last-wicket pair Ant Botha (76) and
Imran Tahir (69) proved decisive after Warwickshire thad collapsed
to 107-7 after electing to bat on day one.
Darren Stevens (3-63) and Matt Coles (3-49) were the most
successful Kent bowlers but the visitors’ reply began disastrously
when Joe Denly was bowled shouldering arms to the first ball of the
innings, .
Rob Key, van Jaarsveld (pictured), Geraint Jones and Stevens
also collected ducks and it was left to young duo Alex Blake (33)
and Sam Northeast (32) to give Kent some measure of respectability
as they were hustled out inside 32 overs for 111.
Twenty-one-year old Chris Woakes (6-52) and Neil Carter (3-46)
did the bulk of the damage with Coles (13) and Tredwell (12) the
only other Kent players to make double figures.
Leading by 183 runs Warwickshire opted not to enforce the follow
on but Kent’s bowlers hit back on day two, with Stevens (4-38) and
Azhar Mahmood (4-51) reducing them to 54-8 only for ninth wicket
pair Woakes (51) and Carter (26) to add 72 and see the total up to
140.
That left Kent chasing 324 for victory, but they quickly slumped
to 36-4 before van Jaarsveld and Jones addded 95.
Jones (41) fell leg before to the final ball of the second day,
and despite those last-wicket heroics by van Jaarsveld and Coles,
Kent were bowled out a quarter-of-an-hour before lunch..
Woakes finished with 5-45, giving him match figures of 11-97,
while Carter took 5-60.
Warwickshire took 21 points and Kent just three, leaving them 18
adrift of their Midlands rivals.
Thursday, September 02 2010
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