Kent dominate Worcestershire at Canterbury thanks to Mitch Claydon

Mitch Claydon took five wickets as Kent assumed control of their Specsavers County Championship Division Two clash with Worcestershire at Canterbury.

Seamers Claydon and Matt Cole helped Kent restrict the visitors to a first-innings score of 211 and they made decent inroads into claiming a substantial lead by the end of Wednesday's play.

Coles (2-61) took the first two wickets to fall, with Worcestershire captain Daryl Mitchell falling for 16 and Tom Fell being dismissed for 34 with the score on 70.

Claydon then started a middle order collapse when he had George Rhodes dismissed for an obdurate 16, an innings that took him 105 balls before he was caught behind to become one of seven victims for wicketkeeper Sam Billings.

Tom Kohler-Cadmore (3), Ross Whiteley (6) and Ollie Cox (5) all fell to Claydon as Worcestershire slipped to 127-6 and they were indebted to a fine 69 from Joe Clarke to make it past 200.

Clarke was eventually the last man to fall, giving James Tredwell (2-9) his second wicket of the innings but Claydon's figures of 5-42 stood out.

Kent were given 20 overs to start their reply and they made it to 55-0 by stumps, with Daniel Bell-Drummond unbeaten on 30 and Sean Dickson set to resume on 19 on Thursday morning.

Tuesday's only other County Championship match saw Northants reach 108-4 on a day when rain restricted play to only 34 overs in their clash with Glamorgan in Swansea.

Northants slipped to 38-4, with teenager Lukas Carey taking three of the wickets, before a late recovery led by recently-signed Warwickshire loanee Laurie Evans (42no) and David Murphy (29no).

Among Carey's victims was opener Ben Duckett, whose fine run of form came to an end when he was dismissed for only seven.