County Championship: Zak Crawley goes cheaply after Surrey put Kent in

Daniel Bell-Drummond hit an elegant 70 as Kent reached 113-3 on day one of their County Championship game with Surrey at Canterbury.

Dan Worrall took 2-33 runs to reduce Kent to 8-2 in the sixth over, but Surrey went 30 overs without a wicket before Tom Lawes broke the partnership when he had Bell-Drummond lbw shortly before the close.

Kent and England legend Derek Underwood, who passed away on Monday aged 78, was honoured before the start of play, with both sets of players standing in front of the Underwood & Knott stand for a minute’s silence.

Black armbands were worn and a moment was also taken to remember former Surrey’s former England international Raman Subba Row, who died on Wednesday at the age of 92.

It was a bitterly cold day and the weather wiped out 57 overs before conditions finally improved, or at least got less damp, late in the afternoon.

The visitors, without Jamie Overton due to a back injury, won the toss and chose to bowl, but the start had already been delayed until 1.25pm and they managed just 11 deliveries before bad light forced them off again, the wind at that point being too strong for the floodlights to be used.

When play eventually resumed at 4.15pm, Surrey struck early as Zak Crawley’s first Kent appearance of the season saw him make just five before Worrall had him caught by Jamie Smith at third slip and in his next over he trapped Ben Compton lbw for three.

Jack Leaning and Bell-Drummond revived the hosts, although the latter was trapped leg before by Lawes before the close.

Report supplied by the ECB Reporters’ Network.