KENT all-rounder Andrew Symonds capped a remarkable Tunbridge Wells Cricket Week by blasting the Spitfires to an emphatic 56-run win over totesport League favourites Lancashire.

The Birmingham-born Queensland-raised batsman, who turns 29 on Wednesday, cracked a limited overs career-best 146 to help Kent post a ground-record 301 all out.

Symonds received a standing ovation from a 4,500 crowd at the Nevill after clubbing 17 fours and four sixes in a remarkable 110-ball show of power hitting – astonishingly, it was his first one-day century in England and only the second of his 284-match limited overs’ career.

He eclipsed his previous one-day best of 143 not out for Australia against Pakistan in the 2003 World Cup and beat Carl Hooper’s 145 against Leicestershire at Grace Road in 1996 as Kent’s previous best one-day innings in any competition.

Symonds also featured in a league record fourth-wicket stand against Lancashire worth 170 inside a thrilling 77 minutes.

The fun ended when Symonds holed out to long-on, then Walker went run out soon after for a perky 61 from 77-balls as Kent, after making such a stunning start, conspired to lose their last seven wickets for 51 runs.

Having enjoyed an excellent match in the corresponding championship game that finished on Saturday, Symonds would have been excused for taking a back seat from there on in. But that is not his style.

After Simon Cusden bowled Mal Loye with his first ball for the Kent first team, Symonds took a catch to send back Lancashire dangerman Stuart Law after a run-a-minute 51.

He then grabbed the ball to have fellow Anglo-Aussie Steve Crook caught in the deep by Michael Carberry and bowled Ian Sutcliffe as he attempted to sweep.

On his season’s debut Ben Trott bowled Dominic Cork in a tidy spell of two for 39, Symonds finished with two for 55 leaving Matthew Walker to polish off the tail with three for 28.

Lancashire finally succumbed for 245 to slide to their first league defeat with 16 balls remaining to take Kent to their second win in Division one and a points tally of 10.

Kent 4pts Lancashire 0pts.