Matt Walker praised Kent’s ‘clinical’ performance to win at Glamorgan in the Specsavers County Championship.

It is now back-to-back wins on the road for Kent as they won by six wickets at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff.

Matt Henry and Darren Stevens were the stars of the show on day one taking 10 wickets between them to bowl their hosts out for 94 to put their side in a strong position from the outset.

Head coach Walker said: “Overall, we played a fantastic three days of cricket and it was an extremely professional performance from start to finish.

“We came through some tests that haven’t been put our way yet this season. To bowl on a wicket that was a better wicket was always going to be a test when it came along having had a couple of bowler friendly wickets in the past two games.

“It was a bizarre first day. I thought we bowled magnificently for that 57 for no wicket and didn’t have much luck.

“We have seen that before and you earn your right to get your success in the following session.

“To bowl them out for 37 runs in that session was extraordinary. Everybody bowled brilliant.

"Ivan Thomas and Harry Podmore came on before lunch and kept it tight, which was crucial.

“Those guys got the rewards in a crazy second session. Matt is bowling brilliantly and Stevo is still doing his thing. It’s the bowling unit I’m most pleased with now.”

In reply, Kent could only reach 174 to allow Glamorgan a chance of getting back into the game.

Joe Denly, fresh from his century against Pakistan, top scored with 43 while Zak Crawley made 33 and Harry Podmore ended on 33 not out. Timm van der Gugten did the damage with the ball taking 7-42.

Shaun Marsh led the Glamorgan fight back on Saturday with the Australian reaching 76 before being run out by Will Gidman.

Their second innings total of 274 left Kent needing 195 to win. Matt Henry was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 4-59.

Walker said: “We let them back in the door a bit. An 80 run lead is good but not a much winning lead. It certainly gave us a nice cushion but that got eaten up pretty quickly.

“I think between 250 and 280 would have been a fair score on that wicket. They bowled well and the surface helped them on that first day.”

It was a comfortable run chase in the end with Kent reaching their target with six wickets in hand.

Heino Kuhn steering the chase making a fine 69 not out and surpassed 10,000 first-class runs in the process.

Walker added: “He’s an experienced player who has been there and done it many times before.

“The way he played was much more positive and took the game to them. When you have a player who can do that it is great.

“We are going to see a lot of runs from Heino in the summer and he will show what he is about.”

“We chased down 195 and we haven’t done that yet this season and we dealt with it brilliantly.”