Charlesworth stars before Taylor takes six for Kent

Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol (day one)

Gloucestershire 325: Charlesworth 85, Bracey 57, Price 50; Taylor 6-52

Kent 1-0

Glos (2pts), Kent (3pts)

Match scorecard

James Taylor marked his Kent debut with six wickets to help bowl out Gloucestershire for 325 on the opening day of the County Championship Division Two match in Bristol.

The 25-year-old seamer, starting a two-match loan from Surrey, took a career-best 6-52 from 23.1 overs as the hosts collapsed from a promising 287-4. Ben Charlesworth top-scored with 85, off 148 balls, with 13 fours, after Kent had won the toss and elected to field.

James Bracey contributed 57, Ollie Price 50 and 21-year-old Tommy Boorman a career-best 49 in his third first class match, while Keith Dudgeon deserved better than his figures of 2-63. In two overs before the close, Kent replied with one without loss.

Cameron Bancroft got the Gloucestershire innings under way with an edged four over the slips off the second ball of the day, sent down by Dudgeon. It was to prove a sign of things to come as Kent's seamers bowled with little fortune.

Bancroft survived a confident lbw shout from Dudgeon on four and had progressed to only 12 when, with the total on 27, he edged Taylor to first slip where Zak Crawley took a low two-handed catch.

Charlesworth, on 20, edged Michael Cohen through the slips for four before playing and missing twice in the same over. But the powerful left-hander gradually grew in confidence and was unbeaten on 46 at lunch, which was taken at 96-1, Price having provided solid support in a half-century stand off 82 balls.

That became a century partnership off 170 deliveries in the afternoon session as Charlesworth was first to his fifty, having struck eight fours. Price followed to the same milestone, with nine boundaries, but the next ball from Taylor saw him edge a back-foot forcing shot to Dudgeon at third slip.

At 144-2, Gloucestershire were well placed and the total advanced 172 before Miles Hammond, on 12, fell leg-before to Dudgeon, who finally got the wicket he deserved. It was the last ball of the 52nd over and the first delivery of the next saw Charlesworth bowled off an inside edge by Joey Evison, driving at a wide one.