South African Sean Dickson and Englishman Joe Denly shared a record 382-run partnership for Kent against Northamptonshire in a County Championship match at Beckenham on Tuesday.
South African Sean Dickson and Englishman Joe Denly shared a record 382-run partnership for Kent against Northamptonshire in a County Championship match at Beckenham on Tuesday. [caption id=“attachment_3778931” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]![Sean Dickson and Joe Denly smashed a record 382-run partnership.]()
Sean Dickson and Joe Denly smashed a record 382-run partnership.[/caption] The pair, who began batting on Monday afternoon, continued their second-wicket partnership on Tuesday as Dickson moved to an individual career-best score of 318, the second highest by a Kent batsman in the county’s 175-year history. Denly was eventually out for 182 while Dickson departed 26 short of the record for a game in the county, set by WG Grace for the MCC against Kent at Canterbury in 1876. Johannesburg-born Dickson’s score was the highest in the County Championship since Kevin Pietersen’s 355 in May 2015. Kent’s 701-7 was their second highest first-class total. The previous record for a Kent partnership was 368 put on by Aravinda De Silva and Graham Cowdrey against Derbyshire in 1995.
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