COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION ONE, Tunbridge Wells:
CLOSE OF PLAY, DAY TWO: Nottinghamshire 462, Kent 274-5
Notts 5pts, Kent 3pts
Match scorecard

Stevens is Kent's leading run scorer in the Championship this season

Darren Stevens steered Kent away from trouble, but Nottinghamshire still have the edge following day two of the Championship match at Tunbridge Wells.

After Andre Adams (3-66) had Kent in some bother on 176-5, Stevens (80no) and James Tredwell (35no) shared an unbroken partnership of 98.

Kent closed the day on 274-5, still 188 runs behind Notts' total of 462.

Captain Chris Read had finished unbeaten on 112, supported by 29 from Graeme White in a partnership of 58.

Read's second ton of the championship season came from 177 balls with nine fours and a six, while White occupied the crease for over an hour hitting three fours.

Kent's first innings got off to a dismal start as they lost Joe Denly first ball, when he fenced at a Darren Pattinson (1-62) leg-cutter to be caught by David Hussey at second slip.

Rob Key (56) and Geraint Jones (37) added 53 either side of the lunch break before Jones nicked a drive to Hussey off the bowling of Adams.

Moments before tea, Martin van Jaarsveld (44) edged an attempted cut off Adams to be caught behind by Read.

Two overs after the resumption Adams rushed one through Sam Northeast's back foot defensive push to send him packing for 12 and then, having agonised for over three hours for his 56 from 156 balls, Key fell to make it 176 for 5.

Sweeping against slow left-armer Samit Patel (1-31), the bowler's initial shout for leg before was turned down but, once the ball ballooned via pad and bat to Hussey at a wide slip, umpire Jeff Evans upheld a secondary appeal for the catch.

Stevens, Kent's leading run-scorer with over 600 championship runs to his name so far this term, steadied the ship with a fluent 62-ball half-century which included 11 fours.

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