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No need for blind optimism: 6 reasons why better days lie ahead for Kent in 2026

Dudgeon, Dawkins and disarray in the opposition ranks - why Kent's fortunes are set to improve

02.04.26, 15:39 Updated 02.04.26, 15:59

Fred Atkins

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.

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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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