Has Canterbury had its own weather system today, as elsewhere in the south it's been fairly dry. Windy too, which will help dry the outfield
Funnily enough it does seem to have its own micro climate. I remember a Kent age group game about six years ago where we didn't have a single drop of rain all day but as soon as we left Canterbury there were puddles upon puddles from the deluge the rest of the County got. We're at St Lawrence & Highland Court on Saturday so hope we're not singled out for the rain!
SLHC just had a new square put down, and rumour has it they don't want anyone playing on it when it's wet! (At lest, that's what the Hayes boys told me on Saturday!)
Glamorgan have won the toss and elected to field. The whisper regarding the line up has been confirmed in so far as Ollie Robinson will open the batting with DBD dropping down to 6. Billings is back in the side but Robinson will continue as keeper.
Like Graham Napier before him, you have to wonder how he never played internationals
eh, napier had a couple of decent seasons in t20 (his 150 is one of the greatest sporting feats i've ever seen live on tv). But wasn't he basically found out as a front foot merchant?
Safe to say Miguel Cummins was a junior partner in that stand of 166 with Darren Stevens...
Stevens made 160 of them, Cummins one and there were five extras.
ESPNcricinfo reporting that Stevens' contribution of 96.38% is the highest in a 100-plus partnership in first-class cricket
Ratio isn't quite as good but Matt Dunn scoring 4 whilst KP scored 300 against Leicestershire a few years back (when KP was hoping he could get back in the England side) was better in my view.
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Good luck Ollie!
same old Kent
Autumnal weather in May not helping.
SOOPERSTEVO !!!!!
God scored 190
from BBC :
Safe to say Miguel Cummins was a junior partner in that stand of 166 with Darren Stevens...
Stevens made 160 of them, Cummins one and there were five extras.
ESPNcricinfo reporting that Stevens' contribution of 96.38% is the highest in a 100-plus partnership in first-class cricket
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/county-div-two-2018-1127614/kent-vs-middlesex-1127702/full-scorecard
Kent 2nd inns, 10th wicket partnership: 100 (99 balls) - IAA Thomas 1 (36) G Stewart 95 (63)
The alternative result (not recorded in Wisden) was:
G Stewart 38 & 103, Middlesex 56 & 124
Middlesex won by 39 runs
Oh, and Stewart took 6-22 in 10 overs and 2-36 in 11 when Middlesex batted.
God wasn't playing in this match. If he had he'd have taken 10 wickets in the match to go with the ton.
Poor effort by Stewart.