Two many Cooks for Kent as Essex take control

Essex 106 for 0 (A Cook dinner 64*, Browne 31*) path Kent 207 (Compton 47, S Cook dinner 3-19) by 101 runs

Earlier, Kent elected to bat on a green-tinged pitch underneath heavy gray clouds that required using floodlights after an hour. Their innings lasted simply in need of two classes for 207 because the lower-order threw away their wickets with some abandon.

Twanda Muyeye survived a good likelihood to Matt Critchley at third slip earlier than he was overwhelmed for tempo to current Sam Cook dinner with the primary of three wickets for 19 in 11 overs.

Subsequent ball Joe Denly’s depressing season continued when he performed down the unsuitable line and was caught behind for his fourth duck of this marketing campaign.

To compound Kent’s issues, Harry Finch confronted 15 deliveries with out scoring when he set off for a non-existent single to gully the place Paul Walter swooped and hit the one stump he may see.

Compton and Leaning settled in for a stand that wanted 17 overs to placed on fifty, and that regardless of Compton hitting Doug Bracewell for 3 successive boundaries, two by means of the covers, the opposite a flick off his legs.

Nonetheless, to the final ball earlier than lunch Compton tried to dig out a fuller supply from Simon Harmer and solely succeeded in chipping the ball again tamely to the bowler.

Leaning adopted quickly after the break when he bought a thick edge to 1 from Sam Cook dinner that went away from him and wicketkeeper Adam Rossington took a high quality diving catch to his proper. Joey Evison went shouldering arms to 1 that got here again late from Bracewell.

Grant Stewart smashed Harmer for 2 straight sixes in a brisk, seven-over stand of 43 with Jordan Cox earlier than Porter discovered a peach of a ball to take away Cox.

Porter then set a short-ball honey-trap for Stewart who hooked straight to one among a military on the boundary, and two balls later Matt Quinn skied rashly to midwicket. Arshdeep Singh swept Critchley for an enormous six and wafted lazily on the subsequent ball and was stumped with out bothering to look again.

When Essex replied within the night session, Alastair Cook dinner slipped into imperious mode after a watchful begin, exhibiting an array of pictures across the wicket in depositing Stewart for 3 successive fours, although he was put down off the identical bowler to a pointy likelihood within the gully.

Of the fifty partnership in 17 overs, hecontributed 38 with Browne enjoying second fiddle with a dozen; of the century partnership Browne had 27 and Cook dinner 63, passing fifty for the fifth time this season when he swept Hamid Qadri for his tenth boundary.

Essex, by the way, can be bolstered with the inclusion of Dan Lawrence of their batting line-up on day two as he returns south after being the spare man within the England XII for the concurrent fourth Check at Previous Trafford. He’ll change Robin Das.