15 balls from salvation
11.09.26, 20:07 Updated 11.09.26, 20:08
Fred Atkins
Diary of a Cricket Season. Friday 11th September 2026.
Derbyshire 300 & 352-8 dec beat Kent 219 & 252 by 181 runs.
"I'm just really proud of the effort," Adam Hollioake said after watching Kent come within 15 balls of saving a game they'd looked certain to lose for a day and a half. "That might have been something that was missing in past years but even our biggest critic would have to respect the fight that we showed, taking it to the death like that."
One look at social media would disabuse Hollioake of the idea that Kent's biggest critics had been mollified, but he had a point.
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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.