"I just try to keep it simple and just watch the ball, take things in small stages and just build from there, so that's what I've been trying to do and I hope it can help us win games. It's with mixed feelings because we've been beaten here. I wanted to try and make an impact early doors. "I'm delighted on a personal level to make the start I have for Kent. Kent next host Hampshire on Thursday, while Lancashire have a home fixture against Gloucestershire. Balderson then played a hand with the bat making 23 not out. That made it 221-8, and when Nathan Gilchrist was caught by Ali without scoring moments later, Compton held his nerve as Kent squeezed their way to extending the match by scoring another 54 runs.Ĭompton was looking to make club history by carrying the bat through both innings, but fell just short when George Balderson pinned him leg before to leave them with 34 runs to win.
In his 12th first-class game, Compton had already become the first Kent men's player to score centuries in his first two innings for the county since Martin van Jaarsveld in 2005, but he somehow kept up incredible concentration as he faced 629 balls across the match. Kent had just a glimmer of hope following Lancashire's first-day score of 506 and their own 81-6 slump which left them with an overnight deficit of 165 and before long, the target was to at least avoid an innings defeat.
He was last out in Kent's 279 setting Lancashire 34 to seal victory before they went on to win by 10 wickets. He scored 20 fours as he became Kent's first men's player to hit tons in their first three innings for the club.
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