Super Tuesday beckons as Kent see off Group Leaders
10.08.26, 09:21 Updated 10.08.26, 09:24
Fred Atkins
Diary of a Cricket Season: Sunday August 9th, 2026.
Kent, 262-4, beat Leicestershire Foxes, 261-7, by six wickets, with 15 balls to spare.
Kent's hopes of qualifying for the Metro Bank knock-out stages were written off by some after Wednesday's defeat, but this was premature: they remain in the hunt after a convincing six-wicket win over the Group A leaders.
Of the four Kent wins in this competition this season, this was by some distance the easiest on the nervous system: apart from the ten overs at the back end of Leicestershire's innings, and a brief flutter when Sam Northeast and Jaydn Denly were dismissed in the space of nine deliveries, they always seemed to be in control.
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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.