KENT need four wickets in the final session of the match to secure a battling Canterbury Week win over fellow strugglers Sussex.

The visitors went into tea on 239 for six, having lost four wickets in the session and with them any chance of an unlikely win in chasing a mammoth 515.

Min Patel was the home hero in taking three of the wickets to fall in a stint of three for 59 from the pavilion end.

Murray Goodwin and Chris Adams both shouldered arms to go leg before, while Matt Prior (53) went to a stunning one-handed slip catch by Alex Loudon as the Sussex keeper sliced an attempted drive.

England under-19 seamer Simon Cusden ended the resistance of Richard Montgomerie for 80, when the former Northants opener toe-ended a pull shot to Matthew Walker, who had just been put in at short mid-wicket.