Kent v Sussex

Only 23 overs play were possible as Kent reached 50-1 on the second day of their LV Championship match with Sussex.

After a complete first day wash-out in Canterbury, play finally got underway at 4pm with Kent batting first after losing the toss.

Despite testing conditions in which the ball seamed and swung around, home openers Rob Key (23 not out) and Joe Denly (21) acquitted themselves well, especially in quickly fading light.

During the 77 minutes of play there were two short stoppages for drizzle then, after another 16 overs, the umpires took the sides off for bad light after which Kent lost Denly.

Nine balls after the resumption Denly was caught on the crease by Luke Wright’s third delivery from the Nackington Road End and went leg-before having hit three fours in his 65-ball stay.

Of the bowlers, Corry Collymore posed the biggest threat, bowling five maidens in his nine over stint that cost only nine runs.

To date in this rain-ruined season Kent have lost 590 overs play - well over nine days to rain or bad light.

They made one change to the side that draw with Hampshire last week, bringing back Yasir Arafat in place of Amjad Khan.

Sussex, however, are without their influential wrist-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed who has a knee injury.

Kent: Denly, Key, Tredwell, van Jaarsveld, Kemp, Stevens, Jones, Azhar Mahmood, McLaren, Yasir Arafat, Joseph.

Sussex: Nash, Hopkinson, Yardy, Goodwin, Adams, Prior, Wright, Martin-Jenkins, Aga, Lewry, Collymore.