Kent's hopes rest with England batsman Zak Crawley after a tough day at Canterbury against Lancashire.

Crawley will resume day three unbeaten on 60 - his best score of the summer so far - but Kent trail Lancashire's patient 525 all out by 440 runs with six wickets remaining.

A record-breaking eighth-wicket stand by centurions Danny Lamb and Luke Wood put Lancashire in a dominant position.

Both batsmen hit career-best scores - Lamb made a flamboyant 125 and Wood produced a composed and almost chanceless 119 as they put on 187 for the eighth wicket, both a Lancashire record and a record for the St Lawrence ground.

The first ball of day two saw Matt Milnes' delivery thump into Lamb’s pads. A loud shout for lbw was turned down and it all was downhill from there for Kent as Wood and Lamb were largely untroubled, adding 90 runs before lunch.

Lancashire’s dominance continued through the afternoon session, Wood cutting Joe Denly for four to bring up his second red-ball century and Lamb reverse-sweeping the same bowler for boundaries twice in an over.

When Milnes did draw an edge from Wood he was dropped by Crawley at slip, but he finally had him caught behind in his next over, the 147th of the innings. Lamb then brought up his century with a six over long on but he was eventually bowled by Fred Klaassen to make it 516-9.

Tom Bailey added a quickfire 47 and he was the last wicket to fall, caught by Crawley off Jack Leaning.

Kent lost both openers in the first 20 balls of their reply. Bailey had Jordan Cox caught behind for nought off the fifth legitimate ball of the innings and Wood then removed Kent skipper Daniel Bell-Drummond, who was caught for three by a diving Luke Wells at third slip.

Four overs later Wells caught Denly for four off Wood, leaving Kent reeling on 23-3 and despite a partial recovery with a stand of 53 by Crawley and Leaning, Wood (3-23) had the latter caught for 12 at square leg by substitute fielder Jack Blatherwick.

Heino Kuhn joined Crawley and will resume in the morning on one not out, but Kent will have to improve drastically to avoid following on.

Kent coach Matt Walker said: “It was an opportunity missed. At 260-7 overnight I thought that was a really good effort and put us in a really good position going into to today (but) the game sort of slowly slipped away from our control.

"Full credit to Lamb and Wood, I thought they played very well, they sucked up the pressure and made it count, they made use of a very good wicket in the end.

"We just didn’t have any answers. We didn’t bowl poorly, but we didn’t look like being able to take a wicket for most parts of today.

"There was a lot of huff and puff and the effort was there, we didn’t bowl poorly, we just didn’t muster enough balls in the right area."

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