County Championship: Weakened Kent battling in Nottinghamshire

LV= County Championship Division One, Trent Bridge (Day Two) Nottinghamshire 350: Slater 100, Moores 94; Singh 4-87 Kent 102-2: Albert 37; Fletcher 1-7Kent (3 pts) Notts track (3 pts) by 248 points Match scorecard

With 10 first-team players injured or unavailable, Jack's Kent squad Leaning included two hitters signed on emergency loan and another brought out of red ball "retirement" with much-stretched county resources.

After Ben At Slater's opening century, wicketkeeper Tom Moores scored 94 as Nottinghamshire got three runs at bat - 20-year-old Jas Singh finished with 4-87 while that Kent collected three for bowling.

Both teams - Kent in particular - will feel more at home comfortable with a win here before the Metro Bank One-Day Cup break as they seek to preserve their Division One status.

Brett Hutton, the Championship's top wicket-taker, pocketed his 46th scalp of the season when he sacked former Nottinghamshire team-mate Ben Compton, securing the most successful campaign of his career .

Based on day one, while the Kent bowlers could have made a more useful throw, the 75 points Nottinghamshire were able to add to their tally overnight in similarly tricky conditions seemed to have put them in a good position.

The only negative amid their morning shift was that Moores, 72 overnight and eyeing a first hundred in a premier game since August 2020, dropped six points short , edging a catch to the ravine as a decent ball from Matt Quinn landed a throw-in.

After Kent had taken the second new ball early in the game, Lyndon James, who made 36, was caught on the second slide after Calvin Harrison was caught early and Hutton was caught as conditions continued to help the setters .