Bancroft battles in Bristol. Barnfather bounty in Beckenham.
11.05.26, 09:46 Updated 11.05.26, 09:51
Fred Atkins
Diary of a cricket season. Sunday May 10th 2026.
Rothesay County Championship: Gloucestershire 325 & 251-9 lead Kent 327 by 249 runs
Day 1 of the Beckenham Festival. Metro Bank One Day Cup. Glamorgan Women (354-7) beat Kent Women (314) by 40 runs.
At around 5.30am on Friday, a cleaner turned up for work at The New County Ground to find the gates had been cable tied. Bags of dog shit had been thrown on to the 3G football pitches and a lively facebook discussion revealed that there is in a fact a serial dog shit criminal on the prowl in Beckenham, someone who’s sociopathic enough to bag it and sling it.
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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.