Chasing a target of 501 runs, Surrey beat Kent by 5 wickets in a County Championship Division One match on Wednesday. It was their first and only second win in the history of the County Championship to chase more than 500 runs.

The first one was about a hundred years ago. Chasing a target of 502 against Middlesex at Trent Bridge in 1925, Nottinghamshire won by 4 wickets.

It is the joint-sixth highest run chase in first-class cricket, 501. And the highest 536, won by West Zone against South Zone in the final of India's Duleep Trophy in 2010. Surrey's previous highest chase of 410 was in 2002, against Kent at the same ground.

Surrey were bowled out for just 145 in reply to Kent's 301 in the first innings at Canterbury. With a lead of 156 runs, Kent set Surrey a mammoth target by scoring 344 runs in the second innings.

Dom Sibley, Jamie Smith, and Ben Foakes, who could not reach double figures in the first innings, made the biggest contribution to the team's victory by reaching three figures in the next innings.  Surrey needed 238 runs on the final day to win, while Kent needed 7 wickets. Surrey reached the port of victory without any drama. They easily put together the equation of 49 runs in the last session.

Opener Sibley scored a century in 511 minutes and from 368 balls. It is believed to be the record for the slowest century in a county championship. In the end, he remained unbeaten on 140 runs from 415 balls with 17 fours.

Foakes scored 124 runs off 211 balls en route to a 207-run partnership with Sibley for the fourth wicket. Where there are two sixes next to 15 fours. The previous day, Smith led the team to victory by playing an innings of 114 runs with 18 fours and 4 sixes off just 77 balls.

This sets up a matchup between Surrey and Lancashire on the 25th of June in Division One of the County Championship, while Kent will play Northamptonshire on the same day.