County Championship: Kent beat Gloucestershire for first win of season

Kent’s Jacob Duffy took 4-8 against Gloucestershire on day three, completing his five-wicket haul on Wednesday

LV= County Championship Division One, The Spitfire Ground, Canterbury (day four)

Gloucestershire 438 & 213: Phillips 59; Duffy 5-66

Kent 564 & 91-2: Compton 30

Kent (22 pts) beat Gloucestershire (6 pts) by eight wickets

Scorecard

Kent recorded their first win of the County Championship season, beating Gloucestershire by eight wickets at Canterbury.

Jacob Duffy took 5-66 on his Kent debut, while Matt Quinn claimed 2-37 and George Linde 2-52, as the hosts lifted themselves out of the Division One relegation zone.

Glenn Phillips led Gloucestershire’s resistance, batting for more than three hours to make 59, but the visitors were all out for 213, setting Kent a target of just 88.

The hosts eased to 91-2 in 22.4 overs, with Ben Compton making 30 to leave him on 988 runs for the season.

Gloucestershire started day four on 37-5, still 89 behind the hosts’ first-innings total of 564 but…

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