So what a week for Kent cricket, winning this title, as well as the Vitality Blast, plus the ladies winning there competition as well.
Tag: Kent
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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. -
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. 
Sun setting at the end of the second days play of Kent v Middlesex. -
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 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.
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Week 77 – September 5th – Kent v Worcestershire at Canterbury part 1
Myself and Claire went to Canterbury for the 1st day of this county championship match. For a change we had no rain.
Kent won the toss and put Worcestershire into bat, here are some pictures from the day.
Kent final catching warm up before starting the match. 
Daryl Mitchell facing 
Tom Fell at the non-strikers end. 
The legend that is Darren Stevens bowling. -
Week 73 – August 8th – Kent v Hampshire Royal London Cup
Can you believe it? Another miserable day for cricket. We arrived at the ground (Beckenham) and sat in the car for at least 3 hours before stepping outside and finally taking our seats.
Play didn’t start until 14:30, should have started at 11:00. I said to Claire that if it rained again, we would go home.
Not surprisingly Hampshire won the toss and put Kent in, but openers Tawanda Muyeye and Ollie Robinson gave a good start against attack including former international bowler Kyle Abbott (bowled with some good pace), until Tawanda Muyeye was bowled by John Turner for 24.
Looking to our right, we could see a huge dark cloud moving in, so we moved to the car and just as we reached it, the rain poured down, so as agreed we left. With Kent 70 for 4 in 14.2 overs.
Amazingly the rain stopped and they went back out, but Kent were convincingly beaten by 6 wickets in reduced 24 over match.
This was after the Saturday match for Speldhurst II was cancelled, this summer is miserable. ?
Ollie Robinson taking guard. 
Ollie Robinson pushes forward. I like when you can see the ball in the picture. -
Week 72 – July 26th – Week 2 of lockdown ending
We went to the county ground at Beckenham to see Kent v Lancashire in the Royal London one day cup. This was the first time I had been to ground to watch a match and I could show Claire where I did my ECB coach training from earlier in the year.
As seems to be the case for us this year, the rain followed us and we only saw 14.5 overs of cricket.
Lancashire had reached 71 without loss when play was halted by a downpour at 12.02, with Josh Bohannon 39 not out and Keaton Jennings unbeaten on 24. Kent’s Darren Stevens had bowled six overs for just 11.
The legend that is Darren Stevens during warm up 
Darren Stevens ready to run in to bowl 
Nice take by Ollie Robinson down the leg side pass Keaton Jennings. 
Is Keaton going to lift his foot up? -
Week 69 – July 5th – Week 8 of lockdown easing phase 3
Another video to watch.
