243-5 at tea. We need to take 4 or 5 wickets depending on the fitness of Eskinazi and Middx require 122 runs off a minimum, weather permitting, of 34 overs.
Presumably as a stepping stone to getting him match fit for Kent, Mikey Cohen is playing for Canterbury today in a friendly against Whitstable.
Cohen returned figures of 6-1-27-3 on Saturday with one of his victims being Freddie Fulton, the son of the former Kent captain and current batting consultant, David. Kent have a 2s game starting tomorrow so, hopefully, he will play in that and then be available for first team selection.
At the end of the day we couldn’t have ever expected to have won with that poor first innings performance once again, hope leaning is dropped and Richards is sent back to Essex ( way way off this level required at the moment)
Apart from that really poor show in the first innings, the real disappointment, for me, as much as he has been very miserly, has been Kashif Ali. To date, he has returned figures in his three matches of 5-333. Given that Dudgeon took 8-69 I can't help thinking that he might have wrapped things up today. Hopefully, Kashif will come back for one final burst and prove his worth.
I do think that we have over-done the appealing but Middx really have been given the benefit of the doubt with one in particular just now from Kashif looking like it was smashing into the stumps.
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