County Championship: Kent ends Hampshire title hopes with win in three days
County Championship: Kent ends Hampshire title hopes with win in three days
LV = O ne County Championship Division, Ageas Bowl (Day Three) Kent 165 & 269: 112 leaning; Abbas 4-68, Fuller 3-44 Hampshire 57 & 300: Fuller 78*, Vince 73; Gilchrist 4-60Kent (19 pts) beat Hampshire (3 pts) by 77 points Match scorecard
The victory also boosted Kent's Division 1 survival hopes and doomed the Gloucestershire to relegation.
James Fuller hit 78 pitches and James Vince 73 for Hampshire but they were knocked out for 300.
Hampshire had won five of their last six home matches, the other a draw in the rain against Lancashire in April.
On the other hand, it took Kent six games to register his first victory in the championship, although they have lost three of five since then.
Kent started the day needing six wickets while Hampshire, taking up 105-4, still need 273 runs to claim a win that seemed unthinkable when they were beaten for just 57 the post- noon of the first day.
Joe Weatherley had added just two points to his 54 overnight when he had his leg trapped by Nathan Gilchrist, who also tried Ben Brown to steal Joey Evison for no score 13 balls later.
Surrey's on-loan paceman Conor McKerr won his first wicket in Kent and gave his parent club's title hopes a boost, when he had Aneurin Donald lbw for 14 to go 146-7.
With the Hampshire skipper Vince in the middle of Kent could not never relax but play was until when he upgraded a pull over casual spinner Jack Leaning to Tawanda Muyeye to the limit for a typically classy 73, with nine fours.
Vince's departure ended a 90-run partnership with Fuller who made it through his second half-century of the season and ended with a 78-on-92 unbeaten run.< /p>
LV = O ne County Championship Division, Ageas Bowl (Day Three) Kent 165 & 269: 112 leaning; Abbas 4-68, Fuller 3-44 Hampshire 57 & 300: Fuller 78*, Vince 73; Gilchrist 4-60Kent (19 pts) beat Hampshire (3 pts) by 77 points Match scorecard
The victory also boosted Kent's Division 1 survival hopes and doomed the Gloucestershire to relegation.
James Fuller hit 78 pitches and James Vince 73 for Hampshire but they were knocked out for 300.
Hampshire had won five of their last six home matches, the other a draw in the rain against Lancashire in April.
On the other hand, it took Kent six games to register his first victory in the championship, although they have lost three of five since then.
Kent started the day needing six wickets while Hampshire, taking up 105-4, still need 273 runs to claim a win that seemed unthinkable when they were beaten for just 57 the post- noon of the first day.
Joe Weatherley had added just two points to his 54 overnight when he had his leg trapped by Nathan Gilchrist, who also tried Ben Brown to steal Joey Evison for no score 13 balls later.
Surrey's on-loan paceman Conor McKerr won his first wicket in Kent and gave his parent club's title hopes a boost, when he had Aneurin Donald lbw for 14 to go 146-7.
With the Hampshire skipper Vince in the middle of Kent could not never relax but play was until when he upgraded a pull over casual spinner Jack Leaning to Tawanda Muyeye to the limit for a typically classy 73, with nine fours.
Vince's departure ended a 90-run partnership with Fuller who made it through his second half-century of the season and ended with a 78-on-92 unbeaten run.< /p>
