Onus on the bonus

Kent 345, drew with Northants, 450-6 declared.

Northants 16 points, Kent 12 points.

You'd struggle to call day four a thriller, and yet it somehow held a level of intrigue right to the end. Northants unarguably had the better of it, but they were always going to declare as soon as they got to 450. Kent couldn't have cut it any finer to get a second bonus bowling point, with the score on 449 when Bartlett cut Stewart to Compton at backward point.