Yorkshire v Kent day one

Kent pace bowler Robbie Joseph took his season’s LV Championship tally to 45 wickets by claiming the prized scalp of former England skipper Michael Vaughan as Yorkshire reached 85-2 at the close of day one.

Having batted under stormy skies for much of the day, Kent’s attack were made to bowl out the final 32 overs of the day under blue skies but Joseph with 2-26 at least made the hosts work hard for their runs.

Vaughan, playing his first game since standing down as England skipper, aimed an expansive drive at Joseph to be caught behind for 10, then Joseph struck again by snaring Andrew Gale (10) leg before.

It meant that Yorkshire will go into the second day trailing by 142 and feeling happy that they won the toss and very much had the best of the first day conditions.

Earlier, Martin van Jaarsveld rescued Kent from ignominy by scoring 107 to pass 1,000 runs for the first-class season and salvage a miserable position.

The South African helped Kent reach 227 all out at tea having scored his 41st career century, his fourth of the season and his 16th for Kent.

Kent lost six wickets in the mid session in adding 126 runs as the Tykes attack continued to make use of overcast skies.

Soon after lunch, Geraint Jones (8) pushed at a decent ball from Matthew Hoggard to edge to his Yorkshire counterpart, then three overs later, van Jaarsveld called Ryan McLaren (0) through for a chancy single to Adam Lyth at backward point only for McLaren to go run out to a direct hit.

James Tredwell helped van Jaarsveld add 57 in 15 overs for the seventh wicket and though dropped on nine at mid-on, Tredwell failed to capitalise when he went leg before to Darren Gough in the next over.

Hoggard enjoyed further success when he enticed Amjad Khan (5) to clip a slower ball to Michael Vaughan at square leg.

Just before tea, van Jaarsveld pulled a loose ball from Adil Rashid for four to reach three figures from 133 balls, with 14 fours and a brace of sixes, but then Robbie Joseph (7) spooned a catch to short leg off Rashid and Anthony McGrath trapped van Jaarsveld leg before.

Kent had suffered a tortuous opening session by losing four wickets after being invited to bat first.

The visitors should have lost their first wicket to the ninth ball when Joe Denly, on five, edged a Deon Kruis away-swinger to second slip where McGrath downed a left-handed catch.

The first Tykes breakthrough came after 10 overs when Kruis was rewarded for his excellent opening stint from the Pavilion End.

A perfectly pitched leg-cutter moved away from Rob Key (7) to graze the outside edge and fly through to keeper Gerard Brophy.

In the 14th over, Neil Dexter got off the mark with a cover driven boundary off Kruis but two balls later, he nicked another good away-swinger to the keeper to make it 36-2.

Denly continued to ride his luck and was dropped when on 45 off a blistering cut by Richard Pyrah at cover point, Gough being the unlucky bowler.

He posted a 61-ball 50 with seven fours but, four balls later, he missed a Gough in-ducker from the Trafalgar Square End and was given leg before by umpire Jeff Evans.

Kent’s demise gathered pace when Rana Naved finally pitched one up to draw Darren Stevens (1) into a drive that he edged to second slip.

As expected, Kent named an unchanged side to that which beat Lancashire by 211 runs in Canterbury last week.

Justin Kemp missed out again through back spasms allowing Neil Dexter to continue at No.3 in the Kent batting line up.

Kent: Key, Denly, Dexter, van Jaarsveld, Stevens, Jones, McLaren, Tredwell, Khan, Joseph, Saggers.

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