Cricket Round-Up: Kent hoist by own petard
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Your support makes all the difference.ATTEMPTS to conjure a result in a three-day County Championship match can be perilous. They are a fine way to lose friends and too often fail to influence anything, writes Mark Burton. Kent's tactics at Swansea yesterday will not have made them too popular down Canterbury way but they did produce a victory, for Glamorgan.
Mark Benson, the Kent captain, has a knack of luring opponents into ill-advised declarations but yesterday his plan backfired. Steve Marsh came out from behind the stumps to provide Glamorgan with 73 runs off three overs, including 34 of Matthew Maynard's 113 off one over on the ground where Gary Sobers hit his record six sixes off Graham Nash in 1968. Graham Cowdrey conceded 39 off his two and Glamorgan declared at 255 for 4, leaving Kent to score 310 off a possible 64 overs to win.
All was going to Kent's plan while Trevor Ward was there, but after he went for 118 off 135 deliveries, the chase became forlorn and with Robert Croft taking 6 for 112, Kent ended 36 runs short.
Surrey cruised to a seven-wicket victory at Durham University after Durham had battled back from 217 for 6, still 26 behind, to set Surrey 116 to win. Durham took two early wickets but the left-handers Darren Bicknell and Graham Thorpe put together a stand of 99 to steer Surrey to victory.
Kent's defeat was not the strangest event yesterday. Sussex played Hampshire in a Sunday League game. Robin Smith passed 3,000 runs in the 40-over game and shared in a stand of 111 with Tony Middleton, who hit a competition best 78 not out, to swing the rearranged match Hampshire's way after Sussex had scored 206 for 7.
Liam Botham, 14, son of England all-rounder Ian, marked his England debut with 5 for 64 against Wales Under-15 at Abergavenny.
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