Day 3:
Middlesex go into the final day at Lords on the brink of defeat with a lead of just 71 and only four 2nd innings wickets intact. Earlier in the day, the Kent tail saw them up to a huge 477 all out, having resumed on 285-6.

Mark Ealham, Amjad Khan and Martin Saggers were all on fire in the 1st 2 sessions as they cashed in on the runs with Ealham and Khan both hitting fifties, whilst Saggers hit 44. Saggers then took 3 Middlesex wickets to reduce us to 69-5, still a run in arrears of the visiting team. However, some stable batting later in the order from Paul Weekes, David Nash and Jamie Dalrymple saw us to 141-6 at Stumps and although we face an uphill struggle, our tail have answered the call before and will certainly need to produce again tomorrow. Although, with David Nash back in the pavilion, things look less promising, given his recent run of good form.


DAY 2:
Middlesex took four late wickets as Kent Slipped to 285-6 in their 1st innings, still 122 runs behind Middlesex. A strong performance from Kent's top 3 saw them off to a good start as David Fulton (86), Robert Key (40) and Michael Carberry (49) saw them to 172-1. However, Middlesex plugged away and were rewarded as Kent slumped from 272-3 to 282-6.

Earlier in the day, Chad Keegan and Joe Dawes added some vital runs to Middlesex's first innings as we managed to secure maximum batting points in getting bowled out for 407, with Keegan remaining 36 not out.


DAY 1:
David Nash hit a superb century as Middlesex made an astonishing recovery on day one against Kent. Muttiah Muralitharan had earlier taken four wickets to leave the 'sex 190-7, but Nash, together with new cap Simon Cook (65) added 125 for the 8th wicket as we closed on 364-8.


SCORES:

Middlesex 1st innings
Strauss c Jones b Khan 12
Koenig c Ealham b Muralitharan 57
Shah b Khan 0
Hutton c Jones b Saggers 17
Joyce b Muralitharan 43
Weekes lbw b Muralitharan 11
Nash run out 113
Dalrymple c Walker b Muralitharan 5
Cook lbw b Saggers 65
Keegan not out 36
Dawes b Muralitharan 18
Extras 30

Total (all out, 115 overs) 407


Kent 1st innings
Fulton c Cook b Dalrymple 86
Key b Cook 40
Carberry lbw b Dawes 49
Symonds b Keegan 71
Walker lbw b Weekes 17
Ealham lbw b Dawes 58
Jones c Nash b Keegan 2
Khan lbw b Dawes 78
Saggers b Cook 44
Muralitharan c Shah b Dalrymple 12
Sheriyar not out 0
Extras 20

Total (all out, 137.2 overs) 477


Middlesex 2nd innings
Strauss c Jones b Saggers 9
Koenig lbw b Khan 0
Shah c Jones b Saggers 12
Hutton c Jones b Sheriyar 3
Joyce lbw b Saggers 17
Weekes c Jones b Muralitharan 51
+Nash c Ealham b Muralitharan 23
Dalrymple c Symonds b Muralitharan 28
Cook c Walker b Muralitharan 0
Keegan c & b Symonds 2
Dawes not out 0
Extras 20
Total (all out, 69.2 overs) 165


Kent 2nd innings (target: 96 runs)
*Fulton b Dawes 2
Key not out 45
Carberry c Nash b Keegan 4
Symonds not out 41
Extras 4
Total (2 wickets, 24.2 overs) 96

DNB: MJ Walker, MA Ealham, +GO Jones, A Khan, MJ Saggers,
M Muralitharan, A Sheriyar.

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