Reece five-for seals Derbyshire win over Kent

Luis Reece finished the season with 50 Championship wickets for Derbyshire

Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Spitfire Ground, Canterbury (day four)

Derbyshire 698-6 dec: Reece 211, Madsen 198; Parkinson 3-188

Kent 271 & 198: Compton 65, Evison 53; Reece 5-63

Derbyshire (24 pts) beat Kent (1 pt) by an innings and 229 runs

Match scorecard

Luis Reece took the final wicket opf the game to complete a five-for as Derbyshire routed Kent by an innings and 229 runs in their County Championship match at Canterbury.

Reece, who scored 211 in Derbyshire's only innings, took 5-63, while Ben Aitchison and Zak Chappell claimed two wickets apiece as the visitors sealed third place in Division Two.

Ben Compton was Kent's top scorer with 65 but the home side already knew they would finish bottom, regardless of the outcome.

They began day four on 135-5 in their second innings, 291 behind, and their tissue-paper thin hopes of avoiding defeat faded when they lost Harry Finch in the fourth over of the morning, lbw to Aitchison for 14.

Aitchison, whose sister Holly is in the England squad for the Rugby World Cup final with Canada, then added the key wicket of Compton, again lbw and although Corey Flintoff hung around for 35 balls, he eventually pulled Chappell straight to Aneurin Donald at square leg and was caught for 11.

Grant Stewart gave a sparse crowd some entertainment, hooking Chappell for six, but the bowler than had Matt Parkinson caught by Donald at short leg for a six-ball duck.

The visitors concluded a win that had looked inevitable for the best part of three days when Michael Cohen flashed at Reece and was caught by a diving Brooke Guest, also without scoring.

The wicket meant Reece became only the 51st person, worldwide, to score a double-century and take five wickets in a first-class match.

Match report supplied by ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay

Arthur praises 'mindset shift' - reaction

Derbyshire head of cricket Mickey Arthur:

"The mindset shift for us has been astronomical in terms of wanting to win, playing a lot more of a brand of more positive cricket which as a captain and coach we've driven, and the boys have responded unbelievably well to that.

"When you have a look at the way the guys go about their business out on the ground and the fielding and the intensity and the energy, it tells you where we're at as a team and I couldn't be more proud of that because it shows that guys have really bought into it.

"You chase every ball down, you attempt every catch and I think we showed that in this game in heaps."

"It's been a phenomenal season for Luis and he's mostly done that on one leg as well. He goes in for an operation in the next couple of days to clear out his ankle. It just shows again the determination, the drive of him and everybody within our squad to get better. "

Kent head coach Adam Hollioake:

"We didn't bowl well enough. We didn't build any pressure throughout and then with the bat, on what's a very good wicket, we just haven't capitalised and put on big partnerships, which is kind of what we've done all year really.

"We did get off to a good start, (but) no doubt injuries haven't helped. Keith Dudgeon went down after one game and I think the injuries really compounded after three games.

"We'd won two and drawn one, but during that period Nathan Gilchrist got a concussion, Jas Singh did his ankle. That then put a strain on our fast bowling attack and we were sort of constantly overloading our bowlers.

"I know that's unlucky, but we're a professional cricket team and we've got to deal with that. We haven't done that very well and we're just going to have to be better, me included as a coach, I'm not just pointing the finger at the players."