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Out of the frying pan, into the towering inferno?
06.10.26, 15:50 Updated 06.10.26, 15:52
The most obvious candidate to be Kent's new Director of Cricket, will not be Kent's new Director of Cricket.
A day after Simon Cook announced he was stepping down, Paul Farbrace, has joined Lancashire as DoC, in a move described by our colleagues at Hove and Away as "another seismic shock" for Sussex.
The news seemed to take almost everyone by surprise, having been confirmed just a couple of hours after Nick Friend of The Cricketer suggested Farbrace was in the frame for the job: when Keith Dudgeon moved to Sussex last week he made a point of thanking both Farbrace and the former Kent head coach Matt Walker for making the move happen.
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Fred Atkins
EditorFred 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.