Kent's hopes in the balance, after 95-run defeat at The Oval
05.08.26, 18:22 Updated 05.08.26, 18:25
Fred Atkins
Diary of a Cricket Season. Wednesday 5th August, 2026.
Surrey 286 all out, beat Kent, 191 all out, by 95 runs.
We've become used to teams chasing down totals of around 300 in modern 50-over cricket, but the success rate of even the top teams in ODIs is still only just over 50 percent over the last decade.
The Oval might be a bowlers' graveyard and Kent might have done well to once again apply the brakes on an opponent that looked like getting a huge total, but if your top order can't manage 90 between them it heaps pressure on the rest.
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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.