No need for blind optimism: 6 reasons why better days lie ahead for Kent in 2026
02.04.26, 15:39 Updated 02.04.26, 15:59
Fred Atkins
The Guardian think Kent will come seventh. The Cricketer go for a more optimistic fifth, as do Sky Sports, while a member of Kent’s media team told me, simply: “We are winning the lot.”
The upside of coming bottom of Division Two in 2025 is that it’s almost impossible for things to get any worse this time around, although the word “almost” is doing some moderate lifting here. It’s quite possible to go through an entire season without a single victory and Leicestershire went even further by failing to win a red-ball game in either 2013 or 2014.
But it’s easy to forget, given what followed, that Kent looked sensational in April 2025, winning their first two games with a level of panache that had us all wondering if we might just walk the league. And its partly because of that sensational start that there’s more than just blind optimism behind the feeling that 2026 will bring a lot more joy to members than 2025 did …
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