Ball of the (21st) century? Parkinson finishes off Middlesex
23.08.26, 16:09 Updated 23.08.26, 16:10
Fred Atkins
Diary of a Cricket Season: Sunday August 23rd, 2026.
Kent 350 & 254 beat Middlesex 249 & 309 by 46 runs.
The framing was interesting. Going into the final day, with 170 needed and six wickets remaining, The Cricketer went with the headline "Middlesex closing in on Kent win." The phrasal verb "to close in" seemed to be doing a lot of work there. By contrast Jon Batham, The Spitfire's colleague from "Up The Middle," wrote that Ekansh Singh had "torn the heart out of Middlesex's top order" last night. This was technically true, but it ignored the fact the middle order's heart was still beating.
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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.