Gough suffers broken hand

The ex-England pace bowler took three wickets for four runs in only six deliveries with the second new ball, to finish with six for 47, as the LV Division One leaders bowled their hosts out for 292 on the third afternoon at Tunbridge Wells.

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But as Kent followed on, needing 259 to avoid an innings defeat, the Yorkshire was in hospital for an x-ray on his bowling hand - having taken a blow trying to stop a straight drive from tailender Ryan McLaren.

Gough could console himself that he had improved Yorkshire's prospects of a valuable win, with his first five-wicket haul for his native county since he had six for 63 against Durham at Riverside on this same day seven years ago.

Gough took the second new ball himself as soon as it became available, in humid conditions under partial cloud cover - and he immediately began Kent's collapse from 267 for six by breaking Andrew Hall and Geraint Jones' stand of 126.

The seventh-wicket pair had seemed capable of delaying Yorkshire's victory push to the point it might never be concluded, Hall (77) taking a particularly liking to Adil Rashid's leg-spin - with a rush of three boundaries in his 56-ball half-century, easily the quickest of the match.

Hall had survived on 63 when wicketkeeper Simon Guy missed a leg-side catch, standing up to the medium-pace of Anthony McGrath.

But he did not prosper much longer, falling to only the third delivery with the second new ball when it immediately began to swing for Gough and won him an lbw verdict as Hall shaped to drive.

Yasir Arafat edged a boundary but then played inside the swing and lost his off stump second ball.

It was at the start of Gough's next over that he was struck on the hand by McLaren, before getting some revenge when he yorked the South African middle-stump.

Gough continued into one more over before accepting his injured hand needed attention.

But barely had he left the field when Tim Bresnan, completing his captain's over, finished the Kent innings with the wicket of Jones - caught behind down the leg-side for a well-played 61.

There was time before tea for Kent, on the way to 56 for one second time round, to lose opener Joe Denly - edging an ambitious pull at Deon Kruis behind to become the 10th home batsmen out of 11 to fall to bowling from the Railway end.

Yorkshire had been frustrated by determined Kent resistance before lunch.

After heavy overnight rain had delayed start of play by 40 minutes, Yorkshire missed an opportunity in the first over of the day when Neil Dexter edged a Jason Gillespie no-ball straight to second slip.

The lost ground sentenced the visitors to another nine overs of an earnest 76-run stand between Robert Key (62) and Dexter - until Gillespie had the opener lbw with some full-length swing.

Gough doubled up in the next over with the wicket of Dexter, safely collected at second slip off a legimitate delivery this time by Younus Khan - diving low to his left to take a very good catch.

If Yorkshire fancied their chances at that point of running through the Kent tail, the ambition soon foundered on the early stages of Jones' and Hall's alliance - which was to extend to a county record for the wicket against these opponents, until Gough intervened.