By Mark Pennell

Resistance: Kent’s Joe Denly, added to his first-innings 59 with a century in the second.
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THE leafy, rhododendron- boarded Nevill Ground in Tunbridge Wells is accustomed to sedate days when batsmen meander to comfortable centuries in tune to polite applause from within the bunting-clad marquees – this was not such a day.
As it was, the Specsavers County Championship’s top two second division sides crossed swords with intent and, on a seamer-friendly pitch, secondplaced Kent took the bragging rights as promot...