Matt finish: “We feel we’re in a really good position in this game."
21.08.26, 20:19 Updated 21.08.26, 20:20
Fred Atkins
Diary of a Cricket Season. Friday August 21st, 2026.
Middlesex v Kent Day 2.
Middlesex 249 v Kent 350 & 38-2, Kent lead by 139 runs.
It was a day of dropped catches, contentious umpiring and a contentious substitution, at the end of which Kent were on top, although not perhaps by the unassailable margin they were hoping for.
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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.