Kent

Glamorgan win by seven wickets.

After two delays for bad light play has resumed. Glamoran 41-3 with 20 needed for victory.

Glamorgan have lost a third wicket. Will Bragg caught at backward point off Charlie Shreck. Glamorgan 36-3, needing 25 to win. With 12 overs left the umpires have taen the players offor bad light. Ridiculously, this game could now go into a fourth day.   

Glamorgan now 28-2. Steart Walters caught behind off Matt Coles. Still 33 to win.

Nick James caught behind off Matt Coles. Glamorgan 26-1 needing 35 moe to win.

Robert Croft takes the final wicket with his last ball in first-class cricket. Charlie Shreck holed out to long-off. Croft was given a guard of honour by his team-mates as he walked from the field and a standing ovation from the crowd. Glamorgan need 61 to win.  

Geraint Jones out for 81. He was caught off a top-edged hook to give Jim Allenby his third wicket. Kent are now 259-9, a lead of 39.

Jim Allenby stuck again two balls later to have Matt Coles leg before in similar fashion to Tredwell. Kent now 244-8, a lead of 24.

Kent 244-7. James Tredwell out lbw to Jim Alenby for 24. Kent's lead is 24 

Early tea because a sprinkler on the edge of the square has sprung a leak. Kent 226-6.

Glamorgan will have to bat again after Kent reached 220-6.

Geraint Jones 50 from 97 balls with six fours and one six. He also brought up the Kent 200.

Robert Croft has got the crucial breakthrough, having Michael Powell caught at slip. Kent are 192-6, needing 28 to make Glamorgan bat again.

Kent 127-5 - still needing 91 to avoid an innings defeat.

John Glover has taken two wickets in as many balls. Brendan Nash gloved a ball behind and Darren Stevens went first ball leg before. Kent are now 96-5.

Bright sunshine at Cardiff where Kent started the third day needing 187 to avoid an innings defeat. Following-on they began the morning on 33-2. After the first over they had moved on to 39-2.

The end of a dramatic day. Kent finished 33-2 in their second innings needing 187 to avoid an innings defeat.

Kent 170 all out with Robert Croft ending with figures of five for 31. Kent have been made to follow-on 220 behind.

Kent are in disarray. They have now lost six wickets for 13 runs - three for no runs. Mike Reed claimed the wickets of Darren Stevens and Matt Coles with consecutive balls. Kent are 151-8 - 90 needed to avoid the follow-on.  

Robert Croft has poured more misery on Kent, who are now 150-6 after Geraint Jones gave the off spinner  comfortable return catch. Croft now has figures of three for 14 from 19 overs.

Kent's promotion hopes have suddenly gone really awry. With no addition to the score after Powell's demise Brendan Nash ha bee caught at slip off Robert Croft. Kent now 140-5.

Kent have been reduced to 140-4 with Michael Powell caught at second slip by Stewart Walters after third slip, Will Bragg, failed to cling on. It as a deserved wicket for Mike Reed.

Robert Croft ensured he will not end his final match wicketless when he broke through in the final over before tea to trap Sam Northeast for 62. It left Kent 137-3 - 253 behind Glamorgan.

Sam Northeast has reached his 50 from 81 balls with seven fours. Kent are 110-2

Kent are 96-2 having lost Daniel Bell-Drummond for 33 lbw to Jim Allenby.

A further shower has put back the scheduled 2pm resumption to 2.15. It means nine overs have been lost with 57 remaining today.

Rain at Cardiff during the lunch interval means there will not be a resumption until 2pm with five overs of the match lost.

Kent 55-1 (Northeast 23, Bell-Drummond 14)

Kent have suffered a major blow with Rob Key having been trapped by John Glover leg before. Key went for 14 with Kent 26-1

Glamorgan 390 all out. Mike Reed was trapped in front by Matt Coles leaving Jim Allenby 125 not out from 163 balls with 16 fours and a six.

Kent have grabbed a third bowling point with eight balls to spare. John Glover was caught at second slip by James Tredwell at second slip off Matt Coles. It ended  ninth wicket partnership of 128 with Jim Allenby worth 128 in 36 overs. Glamorgan are 383-9.

Jim Allenby and John Glover have broken the record for the Glamorgan ninth wicket against Kent. They have put on 104 beating the 103 by Mark Wallace and Dean Cosker, which was only established at Canterbury less than two months ago. Glamorgan now 362-8.

Glamorgan 334-8 - Jim Allenby 100 not out having shared in an unbeaten 82-run partnership for the ninth wicket with John Glover.

Glamorgan 300-8 (Allenby 75). The Welsh county have a third batting point. Kent are being made to wait for their third bowling point.

Robert Croft's penultimate innings in first-class cricket lasted only six balls. He went for one before he was caught behind fending one off Matt Coles. Glamorgan have been reduced to 252-8.

Glamorgan 248-7. Graham Wagg lbw to Matthew Coles playing across the line. Robert Croft, playing his last game, came to the middle to warm applause. 

If it was Glamorgan's morning, it has definitely been Kent's afternoon. Glamorgan are 243-6.

Captain Mark Wallace has been bowled attempting to put James Tredwell over long on to leave Glamorgan 233-6. He went just eight minutes before tea.

Glamorgan have been reduced to 188-5 after Ben Wright fell to a dreadful shot, caught behind to an inside edge off Charlie Shreck. The home side have now lost three wickets in the space of 22 balls for the addition of 13 runs.

Glamorgan are 182-4 after losing two wickets for three runs. Stewart Walters was caught by former home batsman Mike Powell attempting to hook Charlie Shreck, and David Lloyd, who made a pair on debut at Headingley, has gone for a third duck, edging James Tredwell to slip.

Stewart Walters, Glamorgan's leading run-maker, has reached 50 from 102 balls with six fours.

Glamorgan 133-2 (31 overs) Walters 39, Wright5

Kent have a second wicket eight minutes before lunch after James Tredwell trapped Will Bragg lbw attempting to sweep. Glamorgan are 127-2. Bragg went for 59 fro 72 balls with 10 fours.

Glamorgan have scored 100 in 100 minutes and Will Bragg has gone to his 50 with his ninth four from 62 balls.

Kent have struck. After Glamorgan's positive start Darren Stevens, who has been so successful with the ball in recent games, broke through with his third ball to have Nick James caught behind. Glamorgan have reached 55-1 in the 11th.

Glamorgan 50 came up in only eight overs. Not what Kent, who need to win to have any realistic chance of promotion, had planned having put the home side in on a green top. But the extra carry and attacking fields have suited the Glamorgan openers - Will Bragg and Nick James.

Matt Coles takes the final wicket, with Mark Turner athletically caught to his right by keeper Geraint Jones for 5. Derbys 181 all out - Kent win by 222 runs, with 42 minutes to spare. Top of Div Two: Derbys 173pts, Yorks 172, Kent 167 - with one round to go

Derbys 176-9. Tim Groenewald bowled by Stevens for 14 - a beautiful ball that beat the tail-ender's defensive push and trimmed the top of off stump. Stevens now has figures of 17.1-10-32-4 - and he didn't even bowl before lunch!

Derbys 158-8. Tony Palladino, on 7, edges a defensive prod at Darren Stevens's medium pace to James Tredwell at second slip. 85 minutes' cricket still to go here, so Derbys up against it as they seek the sanctuary of the draw

Mark Davies, who took 5-27 from 18 overs in Derbyshire's first innings, has struck with what has proved to be the last ball before tea. A good length ball clipped the top of David Wainwright's off stump as he pushed forward. He made 21 and Derbys are 145-7.

Derbys 143-6. Coles and Shreck have just bowled their first overs with the second new ball - and Poynton has edged Shreck through a vacant third slip for 4. Kent captain Rob Key has now brought in a third slip. Why wasn't he there before? Do Kent want to win?

Redfern out for 21, nibbling at Stevens and well caught by Geraint Jones to leave Derbyshire 109 for 6 and suddenly sinking fast

Whiteley has gone without scoring, run out by a direct hit from Nash at backward point. It was a great throw from Nash but Whiteley, running to the striker's end, appeared to have made his ground. Did he ground his bat? Nevertheless, that's 103-5.

Important breakthrough for Kent. Khawaja, who completed his 50 in Stevens' previous over off 177 balls with six four, is lbw to the medium pacer for 53 and Derbyshire are now 103-4.

Derbyshire go in to the break on 83 for three and require a further 321 for victory. Usman Khawaja is unbeaten on 41, while Dan Redfern is on nine having been dropped on nought.

Matt Coles might have had his third scalp of the morning, but Sam Northeast was just unable to hold on to a stinging chance at gulley, high to his right. Left-hander Dan Redfern, who was still on nought, was the fortunate batsman.

England Lions spearhead Matt Coles has bagged his second wicket of the day. Full, straight and pacey to Wes Durston, who plays slightly across the line from the crease to be given leg before, but only after after umpire Nick Cook had a good look and took his time. Derbyshire are now 69 for three.   

Matt Coles strikes with his second ball of the day to remove Paul Borrington with a fast full one that trapped the Derbyshire opener on the crease. At 57 for two and in pursuit of 404 for victory, the league leaders will do well to bat out the rest of the day.

Derbyshire have just mustered their second four in 65 minutes' play having taken a cautious approach to the start of this final day. Usman Khawaja on-drove James Tredwell to the ropes to move the visitors on to 56 for one in pursuit of a mammoth victory target of 404.

After five successive maidens from the bowling of Charlie Shreck and Mark Davies, Kent have turned to spin in the form of James Tredwell. The England off-spinner's inclusion at the mid-point of the game caused furore in the Derbyshire camp, and it was he who conceded the first run of the day after 19 minutes' play. Derbyshire are 32 for one after 23 overs. 

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