County Championship: Emilio Homosexual scores career-best 112 for Northants at Kent

Emilio Gay went past his previous first-class best score of 101

LV= County Championship Division One, Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence (day one)

Northamptonshire 303: Gay 112; Milnes 3-47

Kent: Yet to bat

Northants 3 pts, Kent 3 pts

Match scorecard

Northamptonshire were bowled out for 303 against Kent on a fluctuating first day in the County Championship match at Canterbury.

Emilio Gay hit 112 after the visitors lost Ricardo Vasconcelos to the first ball of the day and Ryan Rickelton was the next highest scorer with 55, but having reached 205-2, they lost their next eight wickets for 98 runs.

Matt Milnes had Kent’s best bowling figures with 3-47, while Joe Denly took 2-31 and Matt Quinn 2-51.

The 170th Canterbury Festival began with the temperature already over 25 degrees in the shade and in the day’s least surprising development, Northamptonshire chose to bat after winning the toss.

The pitch, however, did not look benign early on. Vasconcelos went for a platinum duck when he was caught behind off…

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