Surrey openers lay strong foundations against Kent

Vitality County Championship Division One, Spitfire Ground , Canterbury (second day) Kent 244: Bell-Drummond 70; Steel 3-34Surrey 185-1: Sibley 87*, Burns 69Surrey (3 pts ) trail Kent (0 pts) by 59 runsMatch scorecard

The visitors reached 185-1 at stumps in response to Kent's 244.

Cameron Steel and Tom Lawes both took three wickets each and although the Night watchman George Garrett outscored his batting partners with a career-best 48, any hope that Kent's total might look competitive vanished when Sibley and Rory Burns put on 147 for the opening wicket. p>

Garrett eventually got Burns for 69, but Sibley and Dan Lawrence battled to the stumps, and Surrey n Kent was 111-3 on the night and Kemar Roach was 59 behind. had Jack Leaning (30) pounds for the third delivery of the morning.

Garrett pulled Lawes for four in a row as he surpassed his previous highest first-class score of 24, but the remaining specialist batters all wasted promising starts.

Joe Denly was bowled for 32 and Harry Finch was caught for nine in the slips by Sibley off Jordan Clark shortly after lunch.< /p>

Garrett was two short of his half-century when he edged Steel and the spinner then left Matt Parkinson perplexed. Ben Foakes for a duck.

Kent's last recognized batter was gone when Foakes leaped to his right to catch up with Joey Evison. Lawes for 30.

Jas Singh also got his highest first-class score, but when he was in weight for Lawes for 15, Kent was still six points away from batting.

The answer of Surrey was quickly...