Taylor and Muyeye star as Kent win a thriller
12.05.26, 10:03 Updated 12.05.26, 10:11
Fred Atkins
Diary of a cricket season. Monday April 11th, 2026.
Kent 327 & 261-8 beat Gloucestershire 325 & 262 by 2 wickets.
Kent 18 pts (3 deducted for slow over rate), Gloucestershire 5pts.
When James Taylor’s loan deal was prematurely announced by the Mail ahead of the Derbyshire game, the fan base was unenthused. His statistics were underwhelming and the fact that Kent were going into the loan market at all was seen as a bad sign.
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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.