Northamptonshire 21 for two path Kent 519 for 9 dec (Compton 140, Bell-Drummond 83, Crawley 62, Leaning 62, Stewart 61) by 498 runs
On the opposite hand, Stewart was given a licence and used it to bash 5 sixes in 34 deliveries on his path to the milestone – earlier than he ended up on 61 – as Kent declared on 519 for 9.
All-rounder Stewart and Darren Stevens then made early in-roads by displacing Ben Curran and Emilio Gay as Northamptonshire ended the day on 21 for 2 – 498 runs behind.
Rain washed out the morning session to depart 66 overs for Kent to rack up an enormous first-innings complete, having been put in on the primary day. Compton continued nearly unperturbed from his in a single day 125, rigorously including two boundaries to take him to 100 fours for the season.
He departed for 140 when driving to gully, earlier than Jordan Cox chopped Gareth Berg onto his personal stumps and Ollie Robinson edged to first slip in a constructive eight-over spell for the hosts.
Leaning, who’s deputising for Sam Billings as purple-ball captain, missed the beginning of season with a hamstring harm and appeared gradual to get his season motoring. He began with a duck and 36 in opposition to Yorkshire and a 9 within the draw with Surrey final week.
But on this event, his wicket was prized with full safety, with solely balls properly away from his stumps dispatched to the boundary. It was actually watchful however allowed the platform for the later chaos by serving to to melt the ball.
His half-century, the twenty ninth of his first-class profession, was introduced up in 120 deliveries with a scrumptious on drive on the cusp of tea.
Stevens had already fallen reducing behind earlier than Leaning chipped a vanguard again to Tom Taylor for 62. But that introduced collectively the crafty rotation of George Linde and Stewart’s large-hitting.
Stewart has the construct of a person excellent to hit a protracted ball – having struck 4 sixes in a run-a-ball 90 in his earlier innings this 12 months. If additional proof was wanted of this, his most off Rob Keogh which comfortably cleared the Lynn Wilson Indoor School. A conservative estimate measured the strike at 120 metres.
He adopted that up with 4 extra altogether tamer sixes, because the tempo raised in opposition to a weary Northamptonshire assault. Linde, who had bizarrely been given out run out whereas backing up solely to be recalled, added 38 with Stewart earlier than skying to lengthy on.
Matt Quinn shook off his real tailender tag to swat a six and 4 throughout a breath-taking 64-runs stand with Stewart in seven overs. He was dropped by Lewis McManus, who broken his finger within the course of, earlier than Stewart exited when lbw to convey in regards to the declaration.
Northamptonshire got 13 overs to barter below the lights and misplaced Curran when he tamely diverted to mid-wicket. Gay earned a life in opposition to the wily Stevens with a tricky caught-and-bowled likelihood however wasn’t so lucky after he was struck on the pads.