Spitfires fly on as the Hawks crash to earth
28.06.26, 19:18 Updated 28.06.26, 21:07
Fred Atkins
Diary of a cricket season. Sunday 28th June 2016.
Kent Spitfires 177-3 beat Hampshire Hawks 176-6 by seven wickets, with eight balls remaining.
Well that wasn't too bad was it? Career-best figures from Grant Stewart, a terrific opening partnership between Bell-Drummond and Finch and then another captain's innings from Sam Billings. The end result was only Hampshire's second defeat of the season: and Kent are still very much in the Blast.
Kent were unchanged from the side who produced, in Sam Billings words, a "six out ten" performance on Friday Night. Hampshire were also unchanged, which was less surprising given that they were the group's leaders.
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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.