Milnes bowls Kent to emphatic win over Derbyshire

Matt Milnes eclipsed his previous best first-class bowling figures of 6-53 [Getty Images]

Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury (day four)

Kent 352 & 335: Benjamin 123; Haydon 5-81

Derbyshire 304 & 158: Reece 67, Chappell 20; Milnes 6-12

Derbyshire (5 pts) need 365 more runs to beat Kent (6 pts)

Match scorecard

Matt Milnes bowled Kent to their first County Championship win in more than a year as Derbyshire were routed by 225 runs at Canterbury.

Milnes took career-best figures of 6-12 as Kent blew the visitors away for just 158 in their second innings, wrapping up the win with 54 overs remaining.

Luis Reece was Derbyshire's top scorer with 67, but he lacked any real support and the game was over at 2.44pm when he holed out to Ekansh Singh and was caught by Chris Benjamin.

A crowd of more than 600 took advantage of free entry on the final day, but as on day three, when Derbyshire took two wickets in the first over, any latecomers would have missed an explosive start.

Derbyshire began day four on 19-1 and they lost Harry Came (18) to the fifth ball of the morning when he edged Keith Dudgeon to Ben Dawkins at gully.

At the start of the next over Milnes got Matthew Montgomery for a duck, caught by Tawanda Muyeye at second slip.

The same combination removed Wayne Madsen for four, and in a piece of inspired captaincy, Daniel Bell-Drummond introduced Joey Evison after just six overs and he sent Martin Andersson's off-stump flying with his sixth ball, bowling him for 15.

Milnes then bowled Brooke Guest for a duck, clipping the top of off, and although Zak Chappell made 20, he got a jaffa from Jas Singh that kept low and sent his off-stump cartwheeling.

The visitors were 103-7 at lunch and lost Ben Aitchison in the second over after the resumption, caught behind off Milnes.