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No nails bitten: Kent suffer chastening defeat

Elon Musk's AI toy said the defeat at Worcestershire was "nail-biting". For anyone sentient it was worrying.

27.04.26, 10:45 Updated 27.04.26, 10:58

Fred Atkins

Fred Atkins

Adam Hollioake didn’t flinch after Kent’s innings defeat to Worcestershire. Elon Musk’s AI toy “Grok” might have described the loss as nail-biting, but no one sentient was buying the performance as anything better than worrying.

"The batting is a big worry,” Kent’s Head Coach admitted afterwards. “We haven't batted well and, on paper, we have a very good batting line-up so at times like this we have got to get back to the fundamentals.”

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Fred Atkins

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.

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