Lunch 106-0 off 31 overs. Dickson passed his 50. Plan on going along tomorrow. Weather looks good although notice some rain forecast for Thursday, day 4
Bit of a surprise with our line up against Northants - Tredwell plays as does, instead of Milne, Shah (plus Denly as a third spin option) but, with no Stevens, our seam bowling attack looks rather light with just Coles, Claydon and Gidman. Hope we've prepared the wicket accordingly.
Rouse keeps the gloves and Billings plays as a batsman.
The team will be:
Daniel Bell-Drummond, Sean Dickson, Joe Denly, Sam Northeast (c), Sam Billings, Will Gidman, Adam Rouse (w), Matt Coles, James Tredwell, Yasir Shah, Mitch Claydon
Kent actually left Gidman out and replaced him with Hunn - presumably because they were concerned about the lack of seam options. That does mean, however, that Rouse is coming in at 6 with the five bowlers to follow.
Northants supporters will probably say the same about our side, but am I alone in saying that, bar three or four, I have never heard of most of their team. No Allan Lamb, Wayne Larkins or even Monty in sight!
Northants supporters will probably say the same about our side, but am I alone in saying that, bar three or four, I have never heard of most of their team. No Allan Lamb, Wayne Larkins or even Monty in sight!
Bit of running down the track with spikes when no one is looking would help...
Ah, now we understand how you took your 5 wickets at the weekend @cantersaddick
Hahaha deny all knowledge! In actual fact the pitch we played on was one of the best I've ever played on. It had been covered, was as flat as anything, little bit of grass on the top which helped me. Was a little dry and did break up a bit but far better than any pitch I've played on.
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DBD out for 49
Dickson 77*
Denly 6*
198-1
Mind you anything we can do they might be able to do better....
Dickson 191* Denly 130*
4 runs needed for maximum batting points!
This game is certainly doing batting averages a world of good!
Dickson 210* Denly 143*
Dickson 236* Denly 168*
In our cricket club D B-D with his 49 would have still had to buy a jug for 'jug avoidance!'
511-2 Denly gone for 182. Dickson 248*
Dickson 276*
Only Ashdown (twice) and Ames have scored more in an individual innings for Kent.
Dickson 294*
Two runs needed to overtake Ames. If he gets to 300 he will be only the second Kent player after Ashdown who did it twice. (332 and 305*).
WE CANNOT LOSE THIS GAME NOW!
One hopes not!
607-3
Dickson 300* 622-3