Red Rose chase down win against a dogged a Kent side

LANCS FINALLY OVERCOME BATTLING OPPOSITION

LANCASHIRE beat Kent by 10 wickets in their LV=Insurance County Championship match at Canterbury - but only after the hosts frustrated them deep into the final day.

Matt Parkinson finished with match figures of seven for 158, while Hasan Ali took three for 36 in Kent's second innings, but the visitors were held up by a defiant rearguard action from Ben Compton, who became the first Kent batter ever to score centuries in each of his first three innings for the club.

When he was finally out for 115, Compton had faced 629 balls and batted for 856 minutes.

Compton and Hamid Qadri put on a stand of 139 for the eighth wicket but Lancashire eventually clinched victory when they chased down a target of 33 to finish on 36 without loss.