More pictures from the ODI international.
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Cricket
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Week 80 – September 26th – England v New Zealand at Canterbury – Part 3
Anya Shrubsole bowling the first ball of New Zealand innings. Anya Shrubsole Maddy Green playing the ball on to the leg side. The captain Heather Knight on too bowl, after making a duck, she chipped in with 3 wickets to take the player of the series and the summer. -
Week 80 – September 26th – England v New Zealand at Canterbury – Part 2
Tammy Beaumont playing an on drive. 
Tammy Beaumont lets the ball go through. She had a great day making 102 
Tammy Beaumont 
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Week 80 – September 26th – England v New Zealand at Canterbury – Part 1
Today we went to final international match of the summer. Good size crowd and reasonable weather.
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Week 80 – September 24th – Kent v Middlesex at Canterbury – Part 2
Tawanda Muyeye and Darren Stevens waiting to start the final day chase. 
Tawanda Muyeye defends the first ball of the day. 
Kent manage to win and take the division three title. So what a week for Kent cricket, winning this title, as well as the Vitality Blast, plus the ladies winning there competition as well.
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Week 80 – September 24th – Kent v Middlesex at Canterbury – Part 1
The game went into the final day, as the weather was decent, I travelled down with Claire to see who would win.
Kent started the final day on 275-5, after Ollie Robinson was out to final ball of the day yesterday for 112.
So need 98 more runs to win with 5 wickets left. So who is going to win?
Toby Roland-Jones another former England player, looking relaxed before the start of the final day. 
The ground looking well in the late September sun. 
State of the match at the start of the 4th and final day. Who’s going to win? -
Week 80 – Septemeber 22nd – Kent v Middlesex at Canterbury – Part 2
Today I went to Canterbury for the final county championship match against Middlesex, who ever won this game would win the division three title.
It was good to meet up with Nick Coffin, as usual late to the match, but that is old news. 🙂
Not every day you see two former England players – Mark Stoneham (on the right) and Sam Robson coming off at lunch. 
Stoneham and Robson in front of the poor Kent first innings scorecard. 
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Week 79 – September 18th – Kent win the Vitality Blast 2021
After beating Sussex earlier in the day, they went on to face Somerset in the final.
Kent Spitfires 167-7 in 20 overs (Zak Crawley 41, Jordan Cox 58*, Roland van der Merwe 4-0-19-3) beat Somerset 142-9 in 20 overs (Will Smeed 43, Joe Denly 4-0-31-3, Qais Ahmad 4-0-19-2) by 25 runs.
Kent Spitfires ended their 14-year wait for a piece of silverware as they beat Somerset by 25 runs to win the Vitality Blast 2021.
Homegrown 20-year-old Jordan Cox smashed 58 in 28 balls to fire the Spitfires over par with 167 for seven.
Cox’s outstanding fielding and spin twins Joe Denly and Qais Ahmed’s shared five for 50 stopped Somerset short and handed Kent their first Blast trophy since 2007.
Though I’m a not a big fan of this version, always good to see Kent win trophies.
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Week 78 – September 11th – Speldhurst friendly XI v Falconhurst 1st XI
Falconhurst 150-9 in 35 overs (McCallister 30, Owen Fowler 8-1-25-2, Ben Harrison 5-2-9-2, Nick Fowler 4-0-25-2) lost to Speldhurst friendly XI 153-7 in 32.2 overs (Tristan Price 30, Ollie Crees 50, McCallister 9-1-40-3, J Tipper 6-1-27-2) by 3 wickets.
Now the league season is over, it is only right that the weather is now perfect for cricket – and Saturday was no exception as we hosted Falconhurst.
We bowled first, spearheaded by the excellent Owen Fowler (2-25 from 8 overs) and Will Plunkett (1-26 from 6). Whilst only one wicket fell in their opening spells, both bowled admirably and proved very difficult to get away.Jo Price then bowled fast and tidily; Nick Fowler, who dropped a catch off his son earlier, had one caught by his son; and we were treated to dual leg spin from Tom Hinton and Ollie Crees (or O. Priest, as their scorebook noted) – Hinton’s economy of 4.14 runs/over much better than Crees’ 12.5! In the end, they reached 149.
In response, Hinton fluently got himself to 28 with no alarm before falling, followed quickly by Arthur Plunkett – beaten by a good one.
The third-wicket partnership of 62 between O Priest (50) and T Price (30) made victory seem inevitable, but losing two Prices in three balls made Ollie’s belligerent fifty even more valuable.
In the end, we were treated to some good biffing from Mike James (17) and a sumptuous cover drive from
Will Plunkett to get us over the line. A win with 2.3 overs and 3 wickets remaining. Perfect.I finally got some runs with the bat, taken long enough.
I have to say the skipper Ben Harrison took an amazing catch at mid-on, he is properly the 2nd best fielder that I have played with and the other player went on to play international cricket.
This was my last game of the season and considering most of the matches are league games, I enjoyed my first season with Speldhurst. Good atmosphere in the club.
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Week 77 – September 5th – Kent v Worcestershire at Canterbury part 2
More pictures from the first day of the match at Canterbury.
Darren Stevens the legend 
Nathan Gilchrist, good picture Good bowling by Matt Milnes 4-35 and Nathan Gilchrist 5-38, meant Kent were batting mid afternoon.
Zak Crawley at the crease, skipper for this match. 
Zak Crawley leave the first ball of the Kent innings. Kent went on to win this match, to make the final games against Middlesex, a deciding game for the third division title.
