Sanderson hails Northants fightback in promotion battle with Kent
28.08.26, 21:07 Updated 28.08.26, 21:07
Jeremy Blackmore and Ben Kosky
Ben Sanderson hailed Northamptonshire’s spirited fightback with the ball in their Rothesay County Championship Division Two promotion clash with rivals Kent at Wantage Road.
The second-placed visitors, with a four-point advantage over Northamptonshire at the start of the game, slumped to 256 for eight after Zak Crawley and Ben Compton’s opening stand of 162.
Northants seamers Ben Sanderson, Liam Guthrie and Luke Procter picked up two wickets apiece, as did leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, but skipper Daniel Bell-Drummond’s ninth-wicket partnership of 80 with Matt Milnes enabled Kent to recover to 345. Bell-Drummond passed 10,000 first-class career runs along the way during his vital knock of 70.
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Jeremy Blackmore is the founder and editor of The Steeler. Jeremy is a freelance cricket writer and Wantage Road regular. He has written extensively for a host of publications including The Cricketer, The Cricket Paper, Wisden Cricket Monthly and ESPNcricinfo. He also covers Northamptonshire for the ECB Reporters Network.
Ben Kosky