Bell-Drummond reflects on a lucky escape against Northants
15.04.26, 19:33 Updated 16.04.26, 09:00
Fred Atkins
Last year, Daniel Bell-Drummond lost his cool for about a nano-second. It was day three of Kent’s game with Glamorgan at Cardiff and he was on 22. The deficit was down to 10 and Kent had eight second innings wickets remaining when Ned Leonard bowled a bouncer.
Bell-Drummond tried to pull it to the leg side but it reared up and hit him on the helmet. The keeper, Alex Horton took the catch, but Leonard’s appeal was half-hearted and he looked almost as embarrassed as he asked the question.
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Fred Atkins Fred Atkins is a former Kent Messenger sports editor and has written several books, including The Spitfire Diaries, an account of Kent's 2021 season and Monty Panesar's "The Full Monty". He has followed KCCC since 1993 and has covered them for the ECB and Wisden since 2021.