Adam Hollioake blasted a magnificent quickfire century for Surrey, but played a lone hand as Kent dominated at Canterbury.

Hollioake hammered seven sixes and 14 fours in a 103-ball 122 that was reminiscent of his ton in the C&G quarter-finals.

He scored more than half of Surrey's first innings 225 after the visitors had collapsed to 77-6.

Amjad Patel and Martin Saggers caused the damage with three wickets each before lunch.

Not even the resurgent Mark Ramprakash could help Surrey as he fell for a duck and only Mark Butcher (34) reached double figures from the top six batsmen.

But Hollioake decided to rescue the situation with aggression, and succeeded with breathtaking effect.

All the Kent bowlers suffered at his hands, but he ran out of partners as Saggers took five wickets and Khan claimed four victims.

Kent started their second innings 149 runs ahead, but Ed Giddens and James Ormond quickly accounted for David Fulton and Ed Smith.

Robert Key and Andrew Symonds stabilised Kent's innings, putting on 97 for the third wicket.

Symonds followed his first innings century with 51 from 59 balls, including six boundaries.

The Australian was caught by Ian Ward off the bowling of Saqlain Mushtaq, and the same combination accounted for James Hockley.

Saqlain picked up his third wicket of the innings, and eighth of the match when he snared Paul Nixon and Ian salisbury bowled Mark Ealham for a duck.

But Key remained unbeaten on 63 at the close as Kent reached 174-6, a lead of 323.

Kent: D P Fulton (Capt), R W T Key, E T Smith, A Symonds J B Hockley, P A Nixon (Wkt), M A Ealham, J M Golding, M M Patel, A Khan, M J Saggers.

Surrey: I J Ward, M A Butcher, M R Ramprakash, R Clarke, A D Brown, A J Hollioake (Capt), J N Batty (Wkt), I D K Salisbury, Saqlain Mushtaq, J Ormond, E S H Giddins.

Umpires: D J Constant and T E Jesty