KENT dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s on a record-breaking 433-run victory over Yorkshire at Emerald Headingley, which keeps alive their hopes of finishing third in the Specsavers Division One table.

Yorkshire, chasing a target of 551 - a world record had they achieved it, started day four in tatters at 44-6, and they were bowled out for 117 shortly before lunch.

It was Kent’s biggest ever victory in terms of runs in their first-class history and Yorkshire’s heaviest defeat by runs. It was also the fourth heaviest in the history of the County Championship.

Kent claimed a maximum 24 points from their fifth win of the season and move up to fourth in table, two points behind Hampshire in third.

The two sides meet for a final round clash at the Spitfire St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury next week.

Yorkshire’s fourth defeat of the campaign yielded five points and sees them slip from third at the start of the week to fifth in the table.

They are 10 points behind Hampshire having suffered their second successive defeat. They end the season against Warwickshire at Edgbaston, with all final round fixtures starting on Monday.

Darren Stevens, with four wickets overnight, claimed his fifth wicket in the second over of the morning when he had Tim Bresnan caught behind to make it 46-7 in the 24th over.

It was also the 43-year-old’s 50th Championship wicket of the season, a mark reached in the first innings by fellow seamers Matt Milnes and Harry Podmore.

Top-scorer Jonny Tattersall and Matthew Fisher then held Kent up by sharing 35 inside 17 overs, before Podmore had the latter brilliantly caught behind one-handed diving to his right by Ollie Robinson, as Yorkshire fell to 81-8.

Another spell of defiance came as Tattersall and Duanne Olivier united to share 35 in 14 overs before Daniel Bell-Drummond bowled the latter for his Yorkshire best 24, making it 116-9.

That wicket came as lunch was extended to try and finish the game, which it was when Bell-Drummond had Tattersall caught at second slip for 41 in the next over.

A number of notable records were posted in this match.

Stevens’ 237 on the first day helped him become only the fifth player in history to score a double hundred and take 10 wickets in a first-class match beyond the age of 43.

Stevens took 10 wickets in last week’s win at Nottinghamshire.

WG Grace is on that list, as is former Kent all-rounder Frank Woolley, who achieved the feat in the 1930s.

Stevens, aged 43 years and 142 days, is the second oldest player to score 200 and take five wickets in an innings in a first-class match.

Grace is the oldest having done it for Gloucestershire in 1895 aged 46 years and 303 days.

Here, Stevens finished with 5-20 from 18 overs in the second innings and claimed match figures of 7-70 from 38.

He shared 346 with captain Sam Billings in the first innings to help Kent recover from 39-5 to 482-8 declared, their partnership being the highest for the sixth wicket at Headingley.

Billings hit 138 and 122 not out becoming the first man to score two hundreds in a Championship game at Headingley and the first Kent player to post two hundreds in the same fixture since Martin van Jaarsveld did it in 2008.