Acceptable in the 80s: Crawley and Northeast prosper as Kent shade day one
20.08.26, 18:57 Updated 20.08.26, 18:57
Fred Atkins
Diary of a Cricket Season: 20th August 2026.
Middlesex v Kent, Day One.
Kent 299-6, after 76 overs.
Kent probably had the better of day one at Northwood, having posted 299-6 after a couple of rain delays. Sam Northeast and Zak Crawley both got out in the 80s and there was spell when the skies grew leaden and the ball was deviating like Ant McParlin on his way home after a session, but Ekansh Singh and Keith Dudgeon shifted the momentum back in Kent's favour by putting on 21, during an awkward four over session at the end.
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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.