Northeast sticks by superstition despite the heat

Sussex 69 for 1 trail Kent 575 (Northeast 190, Dickson 81, Denly 78, Stevens 63, Blake 61, Briggs 5-169) by 506 runs Scorecard

Kent skipper Sam Northeast crossed 1000 first-class runs for the summer as Kent continued to dominate neighbours Sussex in Tunbridge Wells.

At the mid-point of their County Championship match at Tunbridge Wells, Sussex had reached 69 for 1 in reply to Kent’s season’s best total of 575 all out. The visitors’ sole casualty was Harry Finch bowled when playing back in defence to a Mitch Claydon off-cutter that appeared to keep low.

Northeast had batted in a short sleeved sweater for well over six hours in the hottest conditions of the year to post the fourth century of a golden summer and the 15th of his career.

“I was thinking to myself at one point why on earth have I got this jumper on, but it’s become a superstition,” conceded Northeast. “We’ve a nice total on the board and a lot of runs to play with but it’s going to be hard work for us tomorrow. That said, there are encouraging signs for the bowlers already. There’s a little bit of slow turn for the spinners, it was reversing a bit at the end there and KG [Kagiso Rabada] was making it …

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