Farhan Ahmed was the pick of the Nottinghamshire bowlers as Kent were made to follow-on during day two of their County Championship Division One encounter.

The 16-year-old finished with figures of 4/37, with Rob Lord and Luke Flecther chipping in with two wickets apiece, as the home side were bowled out for 225 after the Green and Golds had earlier made 433 in their first innings.

Kent finished the day on 85/0 having been asked to bat again by Nottinghamshire captain Haseeb Hameed, still 123 runs behind.

Resuming on 393/6, Nottinghamshire passed 400 early on – achieving their fourth batting bonus point in the process - as Dane Schadendorf guided George Garrett through gully for four.

Fletcher was bowled by Garrett for 22 to hand the Kent seamer his fourth wicket before Nathan Gilchrist picked up Lord (0) and Ahmed (2).

The last batter out was Schadendorf who holed out to Kent captain Daniel Bell-Drummond for 29.

The visitors made a fast start with the ball as Fletcher – who turned 36 today – struck Ben Compton on the pads and removed the opener for four to leave Kent 5/1 inside the first over of their innings.

Tawanda Muyeye became Fletcher’s second scalp of the morning as he picked out Lord on the deep-square leg boundary when on 10.

The lunch interval saw Kent reach 60/2 and they moved their score onto 80 before Lyndon James found Bell-Drummond’s outside edge with Schadendorf doing the rest.

Rob Lord then picked up two wickets in two consecutive overs to reduce Kent to 96/5.

He firstly accounted for Joe Denly, who nicked behind to Schadendorf for 5, before the same bowler-keeper duo combined to see the back of Jack Leaning who fended a short ball up in the air.

The introduction of Ahmed brought about the sixth Kent wicket as the spinner struck with his first ball, Jack Haynes taking a good catch at short leg to see off Harry Finch. 

Joey Evison provided some resistance for the hosts as he and Akeem Jordan put on 63 for the seventh wicket.

After trapping Jordan leg-before for 23, Ahmed took his third wicket thanks to a wonderful reflex catch from Freddie McCann to send Matt Parkinson back to the pavilion for a 28-ball duck. 

Nottinghamshire debutant Jacob Duffy became the fifth bowler to take a wicket when he knocked Gilchrist’s off stump out the ground, and Ahmed ended Kent’s first innings on 225 when Evison found Ben Slater in the deep.

The change of innings coincided with the tea break - and with Nottinghamshire leading by 208, Hameed enforced the follow-on.

Kent’s second innings started in better fashion than their first as Compton and Muyeye put together an unbroken 85-run stand for the opening wicket – the latter also passing fifty – before bad light halted play for the day.

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