Kent lost three wickets late on day two of their LV= Insurance County Championship clash with Lancashire at Canterbury on Friday.

England opener Zak Crawley hit 54 for Kent but Matt Parkinson took 3-39 to leave the home side still 373 runs in arrears. Ben Compton followed up his debut century at Essex by closing the day on 60 not out.

Crawley swept Parkinson to the boundary to reach his half-century, but when Compton nudged the same bowler for a single, Crawley was bowled by Parkinson’s next ball, ending an opening stand of 109.

Daniel Bell-Drummond survived two loud lbw appeals before Parkinson bowled him with an unplayable delivery for two.

He then pinned Tawanda Muyeye lbw for six, leaving night-watchman Hamidullah Qadri to survive three overs and finish two not out.

It was an eventful day for Qadri, who took all six Lancashire wickets to fall on day two, finishing with career-best figures of 6-129 despite suffering a hand injury which forced him off the field late on day one.

Qadri said: “It was tough work actually, the first day was a long toil, the second day I got my rewards.

"Basically I just stuck at it, backed my best ball and gave the seamers a break from this end.

“The great man Stevo (Darren Stevens) suggested I should change ends and then it was a different ball game compared to from the top (Nackington Road) end.

“Bowling in Canterbury as an off-spinner is pretty tough, not many guys have got five-fors or even six-fors, so I was really proud to go out there and do a job for the team.”

Steven Croft hit 155 and Phil Salt fell three runs short of a century on his Lancashire debut as the visitors lost their last five wickets for 40 runs.

Croft got to 150 glancing a single off Qadri, only to get out one run short of his career best, when Qadri had him caught behind.

It was Kent’s sole wicket of the morning, Lancashire reaching 466-5 at lunch, but Qadri struck again with the second ball of the afternoon session, when he lured Salt into an attempt to clear the boundary and he was caught just inside the rope by Bell-Drummond.

Qadri then drew an edge from Luke Wood, who was caught in the slips by Darren Stevens for 14 and he claimed his fourth victim when Tom Bailey tried to loft him over mid-on and was caught by Jordan Cox for a duck.

When Hasan Ali cut the next ball to Crawley at first slip, Qadri had his first five-wicket haul for the hosts, but Parkinson steered the hat-trick ball past the slips for a single.

Parkinson was then hit on the helmet when he ducked into a Nathan Gilchrist delivery but he and Danny Lamb steered Lancashire past 500 with a useful last-wicket stand of 31 before the latter was bowled for 16 trying to charge Qadri.