Kent 523 (Dawkins 180, Northeast 141, Ekansh 66*, Potts 6-92) and 1 for 1 drew with Durham 446 (Raine 106, Bedingham 74, Parkinson 54*)
Ekansh Singh and Matt Milnes both took three wickets, while James Taylor bowled England captain Ben Stokes for 45.
Raine, Durham’s top scorer, was finally dismissed for 106 and he then donned the wicket-keeper’s gloves and caught Ben Dawkins off Graham Clark as Kent’s second innings lasted ended on one for one after 1.3 overs.
The draw always looked the likeliest outcome, after a leaky cover meant no play was possible on day three, but play started on time and David Bedingham had added only two to his overnight score before he edged Milnes to Tawanda Muyeye at second slip for 74.
Stokes was on 12 when he edged James Taylor, but a diving Keith Dudgeon couldn’t reel in the chance and he was dropped again, on 34, by wicket-keeper Chris Benjamin, when he edged Taylor down the leg side.
After Kasey Aldridge went for 36, edging Taylor to Muyeye, Stokes was bowled by Taylor off a bottom edge.
Kent’s hopes flickered in the final scheduled over before lunch, when Matthew Potts skied Ekansh Singh and was taken by Benjamin for 23, but they couldn’t take the final wicket in the extra eight overs and Durham were 322 for nine when lunch was taken.
Callum Parkinson hit his twin brother Matt for a couple of boundaries either side of the interval and Raine took two from Milnes to pass 50.
The last wicket duo batted for over an hour after the resumption and had just taken Durham past the follow on target when the players went off for rain.
An early tea was called, after which Raine dumped Parkinson for a six over square leg.
Durham’s previous record tenth-wicket stand against Kent was 109 (by Michael Foster and Steve Harmison at Canterbury in 1998) and with Kent unable to break the partnership, Dudgeon came on as a spinner and even Zak Crawley turned his arm over.
Raine took three from Ben Dawkins to reach his century and Parkinson hit the same bowler to bring up his second first class 50.
The innings was finally wrapped up when Matt Parkinson bowled Raine, who then donned the gloves for the visitors – and caught Dawkins for a duck off Clark. At this point Kent declared and the teams agreed on the draw.
