Yorkshire make slow progress

The visitors scored 106 runs for three wickets during the afternoon session after taking lunch on 52-2.

Yorkshire lost their third wicket with the total on 70 when Andrew Gale was well caught by a diving Geraint Jones off Mark Davies for 22.

Yorkshire slipped to 102-4 when Phil Jaques went lbw to Darren Stevens for 30.

Jonny Bairstow played some handsome strokes - including three successive fours off Matt Coles.

But in attempting a fourth, Bairstow drove Coles to cover where Sam Northeast caught him for 32.

At the break, Gary Ballance is unbeaten on 19 and Tim Bresnan undefeated on 21.

Both openers fell before lunch.

First, Joe Sayers was bowled shouldering arms to a delivery from Matt Coles that nipped back, having scored 12 runs in eighty minutes with the total on 23 in the 21st over.

Then Joe Root went lbw playing back to Darren Stevens having made 21 runs from 77 balls as Yorkshire slipped to 41-2 in the 26th over.

At the lunch break, Jaques was unbeaten on 10 and Gale undefeated on nine.

The visitors have made one change to the side that drew with Essex last week, Bresnan replacing Anthony McGrath.

Kent are without captain Rob Key, who hobbled off injured during the warm-up. The home side will be captained by former England wicketkeeper Geraint Jones.

The weather is cool and cloudy, with gale force winds having dried the ground following yesterday’s torrential rain.

Kent: Newman, Northeast, Harmison, Nash, Powell, Stevens, Jones (captain), Tredwell, Coles, Davies, Shreck.

Yorkshire: Root, Sayers, Jaques, Gale (captain), Bairstow, Ballance, Bresnan, Rashid, Shahzad, Sidebottom, Patterson.