Kent Cricket News -----------------------------
www.kent.cricket.org ---------- Thu 20 Aug 1998

Kent v Worcestershire, County Championship
Day 2 of 4, St.Lawrence Ground, Canterbury

Worcestershire 360 all out
Kent 323 for 7 at the close
(Hooper 154, Marsh 46*, Fleming 42)

Kent are 37 runs behind Worcestershire 
with 3 first-innings wickets remaining going
into the third day of their Championship match
at the St.Lawrence Ground.

In an evenly balanced game, a lead of 30 or 40
runs could prove vital to Kent and it's Carl 
Hooper they have to thank for being in such a 
potentially promising position.

The West Indian all-rounder, suffering from 
illness throughout the duration of this game, 
stayed at the crease for nearly 3 hours as he 
accumulated 154 with consumate ease, hitting 3 
sixes and 18 fours, and pausing only to lie 
down between breaks in play.

He shared in an 136 run 5th wicket partnership 
with Matthew Fleming, who made a quickfire 42 
- both of them falling caught by Solanki off 
Rawnsley in the space of 6 overs.

Earlier in the day Kent took ninety minutes to 
remove the last four Worcestershire batsmen as 
the visitors added 79 runs to their overnight 
score.  The resistance came from Rhodes and 
Illingworth, both of whom made 42; Kent's Min 
Patel finishing with figures of 4 for 55 to be 
the pick of the bowlers.

After Hooper and Fleming were dismissed this
afternoon, Ben Phillips batted out 16 balls 
before being bowled for a duck.  However Steve
Marsh and Dean Headley managed to survive until
the close.  The former made 46 - hitting 2 
sixes and five fours in an innings which has
lasted just 54 balls so far.  Marsh will be
hoping to steer Kent to a first-innings lead
tomorrow morning.

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Information for Spectators (Day 3 - 21st Aug)

Play from 11am to 6.30pm (gates open 9am)
Entrance: £8 adults, £4 concs, £10 car-park
104 overs per day, Lunch 1.15pm Tea 4.10 
Weather Forecast: rain clearing during morning,
but only brief sunny intervals. Westerly winds.


Reports on BBC Radio Kent at these times (BST)
(96.7 and 104.2FM, 774 and 1602 AM)

1104, 1125, 1204, 1231, 1304*, 1404, 1428,
1504, 1525, 1604, 1625, 1655, 1725*, 1755*,
1825*, 1904 (* indicates a full sports desk)

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