Glamorgan batsman Will Bragg scored his second hundred of the summer to ensure honours remained fairly even at the mid-point of their LV= Championship clash with Kent in Canterbury.

Bragg, fresh from a career-best 120 against Leicestershire in the first round of this season’s Division 2 games, hit a dozen boundaries in his 208-ball ton as Glamorgan posted 281 all out in response to Kent’s season’s best first innings total of 357.

The left-hander from Newport took advantage of a let-off with his score on 16 to reach the third hundred of his career and cut Kent’s first innings advantage to a mere 76 runs.

With his side in trouble on 54 for three, Wagg was fortunate to see Matt Coles, stationed at second slip, drop a comfortable catch off the bowling of Calum Haggett and went on to bat late into the last session on an easing pitch at the Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence.

Kent looked set for a considerable first innings lead as they claimed three Welsh wickets in the 90 minute stint through to lunch. Rookie Ivan Thomas set the tone by trapping James Kettleborough (23) leg before with an off-cutter, then Matt Coles ripped out the off stump of Jacques Rudolph (6) and, when bowling around the wicket, had left-hander James Ingram snaffled at second slip.

Glamorgan counter attacked in the mid-session and although the run-rate increased, wickets still fell at regular intervals. Chris Cooke cutting at Darren Stevens picked out Joe Denly at cover point then Mark Wallace was caught behind down the leg-side when attempting to glance against Ivan Thomas.

Graham Wagg (7) prodded forward in defence at a Stevens’ away swinger to edge low to James Tredwell at slip and, with their score on 170 for six at tea, Glamorgan still had concerns over reaching their 208-run follow-on figure.

Tredwell pocketed another catch in the cordon after tea to account for Craig Meschede (14 ) and give Haggett a deserved scalp on his comeback appearance, but Bragg ensured that that batting again would not be Glamorgan’s fate.

He moved to 99 by steering one from Coles to third man then punched a single to extra cover to raise three figures having spent a shade under four hours at the crease.

Bragg’s vigil ended when Thomas returned to bowl him around his legs for 104, then Stevens plucked out Michael Hogan’s middle stump.

Stevens, Thomas and Coles all finished with three wickets apiece and Kent batted out the final over of the day, scoring a single, to go into day three with a 77-run lead.

At the start of day two, Glamorgan required barely half-an-hour to take Kent’s two remaining first-innings scalps, with Hogan bagging a season’s best five for 71, yet a cameo 25 from Coles eased Kent past 350 for a fourth batting bouns point.