Ben Kellaway's career-best 181* puts Glamorgan in box seat at Canterbury

Glamorgan are eyeing their first victory of the Rothesay County Championship season, after reducing Kent to 156 for eight in their first innings on day two, a deficit of 393.

Earlier Ben Kellaway hit 181 not out, the highest-ever score by a Glamorgan batter at Canterbury, and his side posted their best score against Kent, declaring on 549 for nine.

Timm van der Gugten and James Harris took three wickets apiece as Glamorgan rattled through Kent's top order, at one stage reducing them to 23 for five before Chris Benjamin offered some resistance with 68 not out.

Glamorgan began the day on 389 for seven, with Kellaway 91 not out overnight and he eased Grant Stewart to the cover boundary for the three runs that brought up his maiden first-class hundred.

Andy Gorvin was on 14 when he was dropped by Benjamin off Kashif Ali but the first hour was otherwise soporific.

Benjamin then missed a chance to stump Kellaway off Parkinson when he was on 127 and the first wicket didn't fall until four minutes before lunch, when Gorvin hooked Parkinson to the backward square leg boundary and fell for 47, caught by Grant Stewart, ending a stand of 108.

Glamorgan were 498 for 8 at lunch, after which the visitors tried to up the scoring rate.

Parkinson bowled Harris for 12 as he attempted a hack, but Kellaway flicked Ekansh Singh for four through fine leg to bring up his 150, then hit Parkinson over cow corner for three sixes from successive deliveries, before following up with a four, taking 23 off the 131st over.

The declaration came and a pitch that had looked moribund suddenly looked lethal.

Harris quickly removed both openers. Harry Finch was lbw for four and Ben Compton was caught by Kellaway at point for seven.

Skipper Daniel Bell-Drummond scratched a painful three before he edged van der Gugten to Colin Ingram at first slip. Tawanda Muyeye prodded at a van der Gugten delivery and was snared by Asa Tribe at short leg and debutant Ekansh Singh then went in almost identical fashion, leaving Kent on 23 for five, although by reaching 50 for five at tea they at least passed their previous lowest score against Glamorgan, 49.

Benjamin recovered from a violent blow to the box to put on 79 for the fifth wicket with Leaning, but their stand was broken when the latter was lbw to Asitha Fernando.

Fernando's appeal lasted for so long that he ran backwards all the way to the batter's crease before Sue Redfern's finger went up. Leaning clearly felt he'd hit it, but the reaction may have earned him a reprimand.

That ended the mini-revival as Stewart played on to Harris for four, but Benjamin reached his maiden Kent 50 by pushing Fernando for a single through cover. Parkinson edged Harris when he was on 11 and although Sam Northeast spilled the chance he went in the next over, strangled behind by Gorvin for 13. George Garrett, however, lingered for 25 balls and was unbeaten on 11 at stumps.