Sunday 5 July 2015 20:57, UK
Kent skittled Leicestershire out for 159 on day one of their LV= County Championship Division Two encounter as the bowlers dictated at Grace Road.
Leicestershire's total could have been even fewer had the visitors held all their chances, particularly during a morning session with the ball moving in every direction.
Ned Eckersley was the only Leicestershire batsman to offer any resistance, making 41 from 52 balls and, after the Foxes were bowled out inside 52 overs thanks largely to Matt Coles' six-wicket haul, Kent finished on 44-2 in reply.
Three of the morning-session wickets fell to Coles, and first to be dismissed was Matt Boyce, well held by Adam Ball at second slip.
Angus Robson and Eckersley added 58 for the second wicket, taking advantage of a series of wide or over-pitched deliveries, before Robson drove loosely at Coles and thin-edged a catch to wicketkeeper Sam Billings.
Only one more run had been added when Greg Smith pushed forward at his first delivery and edged a comfortable catch off Calum Haggett to Coles at second slip.
Darren Stevens dropped Eckersley off Haggett, but Coles bowled Eckersley with a pitched-up delivery as the Foxes lost three wickets for just seven runs.
They were seen through to lunch by Andrea Agathangelou and Aadil Ali, a 20-year-old academy graduate making his first-class debut for the county, but after the break Kent bowled with more accuracy and picked up the last six wickets for 65 runs.
Coles took three of them, ending with figures of 6-55, to take his season tally to 48.
Agathangelou led the procession, edging an attempted cut at Stevens to Ball at first slip. Ali had applied himself with determination, going to 13 before edging a Stevens out-swinger to Coles at second slip.
Lewis Hill and Clint McKay miscued attacking shots of Coles' bowling which resulted in their giving off-side catches to Northeast and Joe Denly respectively. Ben Raine was bowled by Coles, and Ollie Freckingham top-edged an attempted hook off Haggett to leave Leicestershire all out for 159.
A heavy shower forced the umpires to call an early tea but when play did restart, only 14 overs were possible before the rain returned to end play.
Kent lost the wickets of Denly, caught at bat and pad off Raine, and Daniel Bell-Drummond, leg-before on the back foot to a delivery from McKay that kept low.
