Kent’s final game of the season ended with a defeat under the lights against Glamorgan on Thursday night.

In what was an historic four days at Canterbury, Kent were finally beaten by the Welsh side by eight wickets.

Going into the final day, Kent faced a mammoth challenge to even post anywhere near a decent total starting the day on 148 for 5, still 38 runs behind Glamorgan, but Azhar Mahmood (70) and Geraint Jones (79) lifted the Kent score up to a respectable 312.

Jones was the last man out, having played a captain’s innings trying to lift Kent’s score to set Glamorgan a challenging target, however it proved to be easy for Alviro Peterson’s side in the end.

Peterson hit 70 off just 54 balls as Glamorgan reached their victory target of 127 with just two wickets down at 7:54pm.

In the end, the result mattered little with neither side playing for anything other than pride.

What will be taken out of the game is that the ECB and MCC need to look again at the use of a pink ball under lights and neither really worked well at the St Lawrence Ground.

The players felt the ball lost its shine too quickly and became hard to hit away, whilst spectators hardly flooded into the ground in their numbers to watch what was in effect a dead rubber.

More experiments will probably happen in due course, but for now it is back to the drawing board for the pink ball experiment.

Kent won the toss and elected to bat.

Umpires: Bodenham, A G Wharf.

Kent: Denly, Bell-Drummond, Northeast, Blake, Stevens, Mahmood, Jones (C/W), Ball, Coles, Cook, Riley.

Glamorgan: Rees, Petersen (C), Bragg, Walters, James, Norman, Wallace (W), Wagg, Cosker, Glover, Owen.

Result: Kent 237 and 312, Glamorgan 423 for 9 dec & 129 for 2. Glamorgan won by 8 wickets.