It's been a bad day (please don't take a picture ...)
09.09.26, 18:34 Updated 09.09.26, 19:36
Fred Atkins
Diary of a Cricket Season. Wednesday 9th September, 2026.
Rothesay County Championship, Derbyshire v Kent Day 2.
Derbyshire 300 & 100-1 Kent 219. Derbyshire lead by 189 runs.
Kent suffered one of their worst days in the county championship for several months on Wednesday and they face a battle to save their game with Derbyshire, let alone win 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.