Opening salvo: Crawley and Compton pile on the runs
27.08.26, 19:08 Updated 28.08.26, 08:08
Fred Atkins
Diary of a Cricket Season: Thursday 27th August 2026.
Rothesay County Championship Day One:
Kent 154-0 v Northamptonshire.
Kent dominated what play there was on the opening day at Wantage Road, with Zak Crawley making his highest score of the season an unbeaten 82, as the visitors reached 154-0 at stumps.
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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.