Diary of a Cricket Season: First-day sights, waning optimism and celebrity visitors
11.04.26, 09:13 Updated 11.04.26, 09:16
Fred Atkins
Friday 10th April, 2026.
Rothesay County Championship - Day 1: Northamptonshire 409/1 v Kent.
WE'RE SO BACK
What are the signs you know cricket’s back? Men in shorts and knee-high socks walking up the Old Dover Road. Matchday staff trying to persuade someone in a vehicle the size of a tank to pull over to one side, to avoid a bottleneck outside the pavilion. Worried looking media executives trying to work out why the stream isn’t working.
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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.