County Championship: Spinners set up Northants victory at Kent
LV=County Championship Division One, Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence Crawley 35; Keogh 5-31, Kerrigan 5-43Northamptonshire beat Kent by 203 runs on the final day of their crucial relegation showdown in the County Championship after a tense afternoon at Canterbury.
The draw had looked the most likely result at the start of play, but the hosts collapsed from 64-0 midway through the afternoon session to 161 all out. The partnership was initially cautious, but once the lead was over 300 the visitors started to swing. If the target was gettable in theory, Zak Crawley and Ben Compton batted cautiously for the seven overs through to lunch and showed little appetite for the chase after it.
It was 96-4 at tea and although Jordan Cox and Leaning put together a useful stand of 49, Kerrigan bowled the former for 31
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