Jacob Duffy inspired Nottinghamshire to a 10-wicket victory over Kent on day three of their Division One County Championship match at Canterbury.

The pacer finished with figures of 4/60 during the hosts’ second innings as all 10 Kent wickets fell inside a session and a half with 230 on the board.

That left Nottinghamshire with target of 23 runs for victory which was sealed with a Ben Slater six.

The win leaves the team from Trent Bridge with their Division One destiny in their own hands ahead of their match with Warwickshire next week.

With Kent resuming on 85/0, Duffy struck with just the sixth ball of the day to remove Tawanda Muyeye for 60 after the opener’s mistimed shot went up in the air to Dane Schadendorf.

Kent then lost five wickets for 19 runs as the hosts went from 115/1 to 134/6 after a clinical six-over spell from the visiting seamers.

Lyndon James trapped Ben Compton LBW for 32, before Duffy picked up Jack Leaning without scoring four balls later thanks to a good diving catch by Schadendorf – the keeper’s fifth dismissal of the match.

Next to go was Joe Denly after he chased a Rob Lord delivery outside off stump but only succeeded in finding Freddie McCann at second slip.

The away side’s bowling contingent continued their charge through the Kent middle order as Duffy produced a superb delivery to evade the defences of Daniel Bell-Drummond and knock over his off stump.

Schadendorf then took his sixth, and arguably best, catch of the match to help remove Finch without scoring.

The Zimbabwean’s diving take low to his right gave Lord his second wicket and further dented Kent’s hopes of any kind of positive result.

Fresh from taking four wickets in Kent’s first innings, Farhan Ahmed accounted for Matt Parkinson (9) who glanced one into the hands of McCann at leg slip.

Then came the hosts' only real partnership of the day as Joey Evison and Akeem Jordan put on their second fifty partnership of the contest for the eighth wicket.

Their hard work was eventually undone by Ahmed’s round-the-wicket delivery which trapped Jordan on the crease.

Nathan Gilchrist became Duffy’s fourth wicket of the innings when the Kiwi seamer bowled him for the second time in the match.

Kent ensured Nottinghamshire batted again, but when Evison was the final wicket to fall, the target required for the Green and Golds was just 23.

Slater and Haseeb Hameed looked untroubled during their modest chase and the first-innings centurion sealed a 10-wicket victory with a six.

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