Hasan Mahmud was on a hat-trick as Kent made a brilliant start to day one of their County Championship Division 2 clash at Derbyshire.

Bangladesh pace bowler Mahmud took two wickets with the first two balls of the game, but there wasn’t a third-time lucky as Wayne Madsen didn’t follow Harry Came and Matthew Montgomery back to the pavilion.

Mahmud bowled superbly to claim 4-30 but Derbyshire’s Martin Andersson was equally impressive with an unbeaten 129 from 190 balls, sharing stands of 91 with Luis Reece (32) and 84 for the eighth wicket with Brett Randell (29).

It was the all-rounder’s third century of the season while Derbyshire’s cause was also helped by 47 extras as they recovered to post 300, Kent debutant Khaled Ahmed taking 3-73, before Ben Aitchison removed Ben Compton to leave the visitors on 11-1 at the close.

Mahmud said: “With a fresh wicket I just tried to hit the length hard and be as economical as I could be.

“It was obviously good to have Khaled [Ahmed] with me as a bowling partner and I’m very happy for him. In his first game [for Kent] he's taken three and I hope it goes well for him in the next innings.

“People in Bangladesh are very happy that two guys are playing for Kent and especially after [what happened] in Australia too [with our first Test win there] it’s very special for us.”

Kent rested leading wicket-taker Matt Milnes but Derbyshire were soon reeling.

With the floodlights on, conditions looked good for bowling and Mahmud showed the qualities that brought him figures of 6-55 in Darwin last month.

His first delivery lifted at Came who could only edge low to first slip where Zak Crawley made no mistake.

The next ball was full and moved in late, hitting Montgomery bang in front, his second first-ball duck in consecutive innings.

That would have sent shudders through the home camp following Saturday’s capitulation at Bristol but Madsen negotiated the hat-trick ball and, with Yousaf Bin Naeem, restored some order.

They battled through 14 overs until Mahmud’s countryman Ahmed ensured it would be Kent’s session by removing them both on his debut.

Bin Naeem was beaten by one that came back and kept low before Madsen was squared up and struck in front to reduce the hosts to 64-4.

But that was Kent’s last success for 32 overs as Andersson and Reece, playing his first game for almost a month following a shoulder injury, showed the character and application the hosts desperately needed.

They added 91 from 191 balls before Reece got an inside edge off Ekansh Singh and was caught behind which brought in Brooke Guest who had failed to score in his previous three innings.

This time he reached double figures before Mahmud again found late movement to trap him LBW and when Aitchison was beaten by Bertie Foreman’s off-spin, Derbyshire were back in trouble at 172-7.

But Randell offered more dogged support to shepherd Andersson to a richly-deserved hundred which came off 159 balls, contained 11 fours, and was applauded by the Kent players.

A batting point was secured before Randell pulled Foreman to deep midwicket and Jack Morley played on to Ahmed to give Kent a third bowling point.

Andersson banked a second point before Mahmud returned to pin Shoaib Bashir LBW but when Compton cut Aitchison to point, the day had turned around in Derbyshire’s favour.