Kent captain Daniel Bell-Drummond posted his team's counterattack on the second day of their county championship against Middlesex on the second day of the county championship game at Lord's.

Bell-Drummond entered Kent's second inning this season, and his team was unbeaten by 103 as his team took a 226-4 lead and a 117 lead, with bad light at the time.

He shared a 109 second door stall with Zak Crawley of England.

Middlesex failed to collect any hit bonus points earlier in the day, and Ryan Higgins scored the highest with 54 points as they lost the last six wickets and scored 238.

The day started with a 29-shot home game, and Higgins quickly advanced to his second half century, with George Garrett waving four in the vacant second gliding zone.

But Higgins and Ben Geddes extended their overnight partnership to 81, leaving within three ball space – Joey Evison judged a catch deep into the way to remove the Geddes, and Garrett hit the top of the middle stump with Higgins’ beauty.

A solid 42 stance between Jack Davies and Toby Roland-Jones is needed to extend the master's lead to triple-digits as Davies pulled Evison to the top six of the game and hit Matt Parkinson's continuous boundary.

However, the leg spinner lured Davis to drive again, stroking a return harvest, sandwiched Evison's sacking of Roland-Jones and Henry Brookes to end Middlesex innings.

This left Kent negotiating five promises before lunch - Crowley was lucky that his third delivery was limited to a lead until Sam Robson radiated an opportunity to stand out in the next end.

Robson snatched up Ben Compton's advantage by snapping up Roland-Jones' head height, but it was Middlesex's only success until mid-afternoon, with the clouds spreading, visitors in capitalized with improved hitting conditions.

Bell-Drummond gradually settled down, pulling the short ball from Brookes to the ropes, forming 50 partnerships with Crawley, who took a ruthless approach to any range of seafarers.

The 27-year-old drove confidently on both sides of the wicket, dispatching a cover fence from Higgins to shoot his third century from 62 balls, Kent wiped off their first innings enarrears.

Patterson finally made a breakthrough, bringing a man back to the slope shortly after Bell-Drummond passed 50 times, putting Crawley on his hind legs and hitting Roland-Jones' Half-Jones Half-Jones to the boundary.

Tawanda Muyeye fell off shortly after tea, pounding at Higgins prot, Jack Leaning's start rate was a scratch-off start, grabbed by a ball from Roland-Jones and pulled four on the stump narrowly on his inner edge.

When Captain Kent drew a 19th-century first-class century from 168 balls, Lenin's inning ended up despite skiing his successor with 168 balls - albeit cutting Patterson into four points in a tidy way.

The border happened to hit Bell-Drummond, with referees Rob Bailey and Anthony Harris defeating the team after three goals.

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