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  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,671
    As I said yesterday let's hope we can quickly wrap up the last 3 wickets and thereby win this.
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,750
    Come on, lads.

    A win would be a great way to start our season.

    Onwards & upwards with our very own Surrey Spitfire ! 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,880
    Dudgeon bounces out Leech to give the debutant his fifth wicket in the innings

    112-8
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,880
    edited April 6
    6th for Dudgeon

    114-9
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,880
    edited April 6
    114 all out. Kent win by 146 runs

    Dudgeon 7-36
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,953
    Very impressive start by Dudgeon, especially has he doesn't appear to have played outside of S Africa before.
  • PeterGage
    PeterGage Posts: 1,799
    All over !
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,836
    Lovely win first up.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,880
    All of a sudden our bowling unit looks OK. With the likes of Kashif Ali, Cohen, Quinn, Agar, Garrett and Parkinson all to play their part, hopefully we will this season consistently bowl teams out thus negating the need for big scores from our batters. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,880
    Top of the league!!!!

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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,953
    Clearly a very seam friendly pitch, so bowling will be harder in future matches, but hopefully batting easier as well.
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,386
    Batting performance in the first innings doesn’t look so bad now 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,880
    fenaddick said:
    Batting performance in the first innings doesn’t look so bad now 
    It wasn't a minefield but you did have to apply yourself - in all four innings someone managed to reach 50 but, as in all such situations, you do need to bat in pairs. Muyeye and Leaning put on 104 in our first innings and the next best partnership for us in the match was Compton and Crawley (66). There wasn't a single other partnership of 50 in the match from either side. 
  • Kent showing some bouncebackability. Good start to the season.
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,834
    All of a sudden our bowling unit looks OK. With the likes of Kashif Ali, Cohen, Quinn, Agar, Garrett and Parkinson all to play their part, hopefully we will this season consistently bowl teams out thus negating the need for big scores from our batters. 
    It’s one win against a poor side on a sporting wicket .  Let’s see - I hope you are right . 
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,671
    Great to win. 19 points I think given no batting points at all.

    How good to see a quickie that can remove 9, 10 and Jack for 1,0 and 0. A novelty for Kent fans. Stay fit Dudgeon and don't become the cricketing Chuks like so many of our decent quickies have been at times.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,880
    LenGlover said:
    Great to win. 19 points I think given no batting points at all.

    How good to see a quickie that can remove 9, 10 and Jack for 1,0 and 0. A novelty for Kent fans. Stay fit Dudgeon and don't become the cricketing Chuks like so many of our decent quickies have been at times.
    Like Kashif Ali, he's only here for April and May and then Wes Agar arrives. Whether that can financially or other commitment wise be extended I don't know as Rogers is only here for the Blast.  
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,750
    Out all day so what a great result to come home to ! 

    Starting to feel a degree of optimism now....


    .....silly woman !  :#
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,880
    'Darren Lehmann after 3 Northants players were dismissed without playing a shot in an season-opener defeat against Kent.
    "Bats cost about 500 quid – you’ve got to start using them!” David Hopps interview on Bluesky
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,880
    edited April 8
    A 2nd XI somewhat lacking balance were 254 all out against Notts today.

    Both openers Ekansh Singh and Ben Dawkins were out for a duck but then followed fifties from Jaydn (65) and Benjamin (54). Corey Flintoff (9) doesn't look a number 5 any more than Parkinson is a 6 (3 off 43). Young all rounder Oliver Curtiss (3) and triallist, Sebastian Allison (1), a seamer, came and went but then Garrett (43*), Kashif Ali (54) and another triallist seamer, Pip Jackson (19), took the score from 141-8 to 254 all out.        

    No lack of bowling options though - seven seamers and two spinners plus two keepers just in case they want to switch to allow each other to have a bowl.

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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,880
    Oh dear! Garrett came on first change and had to stop bowling after one ball. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,880
    Perhaps we do need all those bowlers after all. A stand broken with the score on 130 by Parkinson.

    131-1 at close 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,953
    https://www.kentcricket.co.uk/news/commercial-update-spring-2025/

    A dull article about our commercial activity BUT hidden within it was this revelation (for me at least)

    I’m also excited to announce that Cluberly are our new Live Stream Partner until at least the end of the 2027 season, across all formats. Because of their support, I’m pleased to confirm that our Men’s home Vitality Blast matches will be shown for free via Kent Cricket’s official YouTube channel this Summer, at the same standard and quality as it was produced as KentCricketPlay.
  • 000__Jaaaaay__000
    000__Jaaaaay__000 Posts: 2,342
    M mian bowling, anyone know of him? 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,880
    edited April 9
    M mian bowling, anyone know of him? 
    Another triallist and our tenth bowling option - Mudasir Mian via the ACE programme but played previously club cricket for Old Whitgiftians. He has taken two quick wickets this morning in what turned out to be quite a long and eventful over:

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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,880
    Mian then followed that up with three overs, no NBs and just a single. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,953
    Oh dear! Garrett came on first change and had to stop bowling after one ball. 
    And hasn't bowled this morning. As soon as we sign bowlers they turn into Chuks Aneke.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,880
    Kashif Ali takes a wicket. Ekansh becomes bowler number nine to be utilised which leaves just the two keepers, Benjamin and Dawkins, plus Curtiss as the only members of the 12 not to turn their arm over. The chances are that Curtiss might still be recovering from the injury he sustained last season. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,953
    Kashif Ali takes a wicket. Ekansh becomes bowler number nine to be utilised which leaves just the two keepers, Benjamin and Dawkins, plus Curtiss as the only members of the 12 not to turn their arm over. The chances are that Curtiss might still be recovering from the injury he sustained last season
    #properkent
  • Briston_Addick
    Briston_Addick Posts: 11,785
    Kashif Ali takes a wicket. Ekansh becomes bowler number nine to be utilised which leaves just the two keepers, Benjamin and Dawkins, plus Curtiss as the only members of the 12 not to turn their arm over. The chances are that Curtiss might still be recovering from the injury he sustained last season
    #properkent
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