Trott gallops through Essex batting to secure easy win

Kent wrapped up their first Championship win of the season inside three days by claiming 16 Essex wickets in a day to secure an innings and 152-run win at Tunbridge Wells.

The Kentish hero was 26-year-old former Somerset seamer Ben Trott, who claimed match figures of 11 for 78 to dismiss the visitors for 298 and then a paltry 68 as they followed on 222 runs in arrears.

Trott, playing the seventh Championship match of his four-year career and only the fourth since joining Kent last June, finished with five for 65 to polish off the first Essex innings an hour after lunch.

The strapping Wellington-born bowler then went one better in bagging six for 13 second time around as Essex, following on, succumbed inside two and a half hours for 68 - the lowest score of this Championship summer to date.

Only wicket-keeper James Foster (27) and seam bowler Mark Ilott (11) limped into double figures for the visitors as Kent claimed a maximum 20-point win for the first time since August 1999.

Martin Saggers provided valuable support by claiming three for 30 in the Essex second innings, while Paul Nixon claimed six catches and Mark Ealham five in the match, his final Championship outing before teaming up with the England one-day squad.

Kent's batsmen dominated the opening four sessions of the match, amassing 518 for five declared built around centuries by David Fulton and Matthew Walker.