Kent’s wait for an LV= County Championship Division 2 win goes on after they were frustrated by a dogged Glamorgan side on the final day at Canterbury.

For the second straight game the result was in the balance until the dying moments of the final session. Last week Kent fell just short in a run chase against Leicestershire, and this week they were unable to prise out the Glamorgan last pair to force victory.

The performance was however the most complete yet of the Kent season, as they passed 300 runs in both innings and engineered a commanding lead of 400+ which proved beyond Glamorgan on the final day.

Daniel Bell-Drummond gave Kent a first-day platform on Sunday with a second century in four days, following his heroics on the final day of the Leicestershire game.

He put on 68 with Joe Denly (33) and cracked 17 fours in his five hour stay for 123.

With Rob Key having dropped himself, Brendan Nash (34) came in at three and skipper Sam Northeast (8) was promoted to four, though 134-1 became 190-4 when Fabian Cowdrey departed for 14.

Bell-Drummond put on 87 for the fifth wicket with Darren Stevens before becoming one of five victims for Michael Hogan (5-71).

Stevens made a breezy 50 and Sam Billings added 26 to take Kent past 300 for the first time this term before Matt Coles hit a late 25 to steer his side past 350.

Coles and Ivan Thomas made early inroads in the reply on Monday as South African Jacques Rudolph was bowled by the former for six, however Will Bragg proved a thorn in the Kent side with 104 over four-and-a-half hours as 41-3 became 142-4.

However Thomas (3-40 from 17), Stevens (3-47) and Coles (3-80) helped restrict the visitors to 182-7.

David Lloyd made a defiant late 45 and last-man Hogan 19 as Glamorgan battled to post 281, a deficit of only 76.

Bell-Drummond (1) fell late on the second day but nightwatchman James Tredwell and Denly put on 124 for the second wicket on Tuesday morning.

Tredwell fell to Hogan - who finished with nine wickets in the match - for 53 - his highest score for three years - while Denly went for 66.

Northeast didn’t trouble the scorers though Nash (45) and Cowdrey (54) felt there were more runs out there for them.

Another 37 from Billings took his side into a commanding lead and Calum Haggett’s 16 steered them past 300, leaving the visitors 11 overs on the third evening to negotiate in their quest to chase 404 for victory.

Coles got Rudolph to play on to inspire hope before stumps, and on the final morning the visitors were reduced to 50-3, however Kent were frustrated by a nightwatchman, Dean Cosker, who stuck around nearly four hours for his 69.

Colin Ingram added 50 and though the visitors never looked like chasing down their huge target, when Cosker fell to Haggett to leave the score on 173-6 with 44 overs remaining, they dug-in.

It took a further 20 overs for Coles to strike with the new-ball, ousting Mark Wallace for 29 to end a 57-run partnership for the seventh wicket with Graham Wagg.

Haggett bowled Craig Meschede for one soon after leaving Kent with 21 overs to claim the final two wickets and they were held up initially by Wagg and David Lloyd who added 34 in 13.5 overs before Wagg was tapped leg before by Haggett for 51. He had batted for almost two hours and 20 minutes.

Lloyd was then joined by last man Hogan and together they kept the Kent attack at bay until the close, adding 32 unbroken as Glamorgan ended on 309-9. Lloyd finished 43 not out.

Haggett, in his first start of the season, finished with championship best figures of 4-61 from 23 overs, while Coles took 3-101 from 31 overs.