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Kent Spitfires Vs. Sussex Sharks DIGITAL MATCH PROGRAMME Kent Spitfires vs Sussex Sharks Sunday 18 July Match starts at 18:30 VITALITY BLAST The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence, Canterbury www.kentcricket.co.uk PRINCIPAL PARTNERS ELITE PARTNERS WELCOME By Matt Walker Head Coach Good evening everyone and welcome back to like to echo Jonathan Rice’s sentiments on The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence for our final the Club website that we owe them a lot for group match of this year’s Vitality Blast. I’d coming in at such short notice and playing the also like to welcome the players and staff from way they did. our opponents tonight, Sussex Sharks. We may have already qualified for the Vitality What a couple of weeks this has been! Blast Quarter Finals, but winning breeds The Pandemic has thrown up many, many confidence and that is still our objective going challenges for our sport but our Championship into this game. I know, as always, you will be match against tonight’s opponents was supporting this squad – it may not be the squad certainly the biggest challenge that we have that defeated Surrey twice in a week, but these faced here at Kent as a result of COVID. lads are certainly relishing the opportunity to be Kent Spitfires. Everyone at the Club did extremely well, working above and beyond to source and The support you showed them in the register a side for Canterbury Cricket Week, Championship match was exemplary, and I and I’d like to thank everyone involved with know this will continue tonight. getting us out there playing this past week. The players that came in played for the White Enjoy the match Horse and did so with distinction – it was a great result given the circumstances, and I’d Walks LAST TIME OUT LAST TIME OUT Elliot Hooper enjoyed a dream debut as visitors were sitting pretty at 118-2 early in Kent routed Middlesex for their lowest the 13th over. ever Vitality Blast score of 80 at Lord’s. However, Kuhn holing out in the deep off Thee 25-year-old left-armer, one of seven the excellent Sowter sparked a turning debutants for the visitors because of a point as runs dried up and wickets tumbled. COVID-19 outbreak, took 3-24 in the 77- Finch tried to hold things together making run victory – the hosts failing to reach their hitting six fours, in his 35-ball stay but just previous worst tally of 92 made against 40 runs came from the last eight overs. Surrey at Lord’s eight years ago. Chasing 158 to win, the hosts simply fell Fellow Spitfires T20 debutants Matt Quinn, to pieces. Safyaan Sharif and Marcus O’Riordan were also among the wickets, all this after Sam Robson was yorked by Quinn and Harry Finch top scored with 47 and Heino when the dangerous Joe Cracknell pulled Kuhn made 42 in Kent’s total of 157-8, Podmore straight into the hands of deep Blake Cullen taking 4-33. square they were 16/2. Another of the Kent new boys, George And it was 20/3 when New Zealand Munsey, swept the second ball of the international Daryl Mitchell was trapped match from Mujeeb Ur Rahman for six but LBW by Sharif, who returned two for 10. departed later in the first over. Hooper trapped Middlesex debutant Kuhn was then dropped at point by Joe Varun Chopra in front before Podmore (2- Cracknell from Tom Helm’s first ball and 12) returned to have John Simpson caught he and skipper Zak Crawley set about the at short mid-on. host’s attack. Holden was caught on the fence to give Crawley hit three sixes as 50 came up O’Riordan his first Blast wicket and the in the sixth over, but attempting a fourth procession continued as Hooper scattered he was brilliantly caught by Max Holden Sowter’s stumps. at deep square – the first of Cullen’s four Helm, Hooper’s other victim, and Mujeeb victims. were the only players other than Chopra Kuhn and Harry Finch continued the to reach double figures as the hosts were onslaught helped by a succession of mis- bowled out with 21 balls to spare. fields, adding 65 in 43 balls, meaning the Find us on social media @KentCricket Find us on social media @KentCricket AN ‘EXTRAORDINARY MATCH’ AN ‘EXTRAORDINARY MATCH’ The COVID Pandemic has created many For professionals a Century ago, read odd cricketing situations, but – so far – ‘COVID-victims’ today. I’m not sure whether none has been quite as odd as the start of the new faces will play for Kent again, but the match at Canterbury, beginning on 11 they will always be able to say they are July 2021, when Kent took on Sussex in the county cricketers. 169th Canterbury Cricket Week. The five Kent debutants; four playing their The story began the afternoon before, when first ever first-class game and one a ‘refugee’ one of the squad which had just played, and from Sussex, were soon joined by another, duly thrashed, Surrey in the Vitality Blast, when Nathan Gilchrist had to drop out after tested positive for the virus. This meant that one day’s play, having been ‘pinged’ by his the entire squad, who had all been part of NHS app. one bubble, had to self-isolate, and therefore were not available for selection for the next day’s game. This brought in our sixth debutant, and fifth new first-class cricketer, Bailey Wightman, An evening and much of the night on the a U.K. born Aussie to complete the side. telephone then ensued, as Messrs. Downton, According to Andrew Samson, the TMS Walker and Storey tried to assemble eleven statistician, no county has ever introduced as fit men to play the next morning, and, what many as five players new to first-class cricket was just as tricky, to register the squad as in one match, always excluding a county’s Kent players. Of the eleven who turned out first ever first-class games. on the Sunday, five were Kent professionals already (Kuhn, Podmore, O’Riordan, Qadri Among the bowlers, Jas Singh took five and Gilchrist) one was on loan, Quinn, and wickets in the match (4-51 and 1-32) and as the other five were more than surprised to be the youngest member of the team, not yet 19, called up (Gordon, Finch, Lincoln, Houillon did his future career chances no harm at all. and Singh). Among the batsmen, Harry Finch, formerly of Sussex, was the star, making 24 and 115. Heino Kuhn was given the captaincy of this scratch eleven, and not just because he is Regardless of their individual statistics, all nine years older than any of his new team- Kent supporters owe a debt of gratitude to mates, five of whom were born this Century. these men for turning out for the Club and He duly won the toss and put Sussex into bat. saving not only our cricketing faces but also Canterbury Week as well. The Kent squad in some ways took us back to the golden era of Canterbury Week, when I hope they all prove good enough to get amateurs would come out to play and the many more chances in the future. professionals would have to sit out a couple By Jonathan Rice, Kent Cricket Heritage of games. Trust Chairman Find us on social media @KentCricket Find us on social media @KentCricket FIRST RESERVES… FIRST RESERVES… The global pandemic continues to impact Kent a notional 349 to win from 86 overs. upon sport as well as every other aspect An overly conservative declaration was of our lives and that came into sharper the general consensus in our part of The focus last week when in the space of just Spitfire Ground, and so it proved. a few days my football team Gillingham With no realistic hope of winning the FC were forced to cancel ten days-worth game, Kent set about saving it. Little of of pre-season friendlies. Then the One real consequence rested on the outcome, Day international for which I had tickets both sides would be in Division Three at Lord’s saw the main England white for the final four Championship fixtures, ball squad isolating necessitating a but professional pride and sporting scramble to assemble a brand new team competition came to the fore. You play from scratch to face Pakistan and then for four days and celebrate a draw? Too of course Kent were pushed into self- right! At 0-1 it looked a tall order, but then isolation due to “contact” at the Oval O’Riordan (47) and Finch batted calmly plunging Cricket Week into peril. and with authority adding 120. Sussex The county did well to assemble a needed eight further wickets in 55 overs replacement squad to avoid a cancellation, and the pitch had flattened out. Could Joe Gordon, Harry Houillon, Dan Lincoln they save the day? and Jas Singh being joined by ex-Sussex Kuhn went cheaply but Lincoln joined player Harry Finch. Kuhn was made Finch in another gritty and determined captain and they were thrown into the rearguard action. When Lincoln was challenge of first class cricket together. finally prised out for a stubborn 41 an I missed the first day, I was on my way increasingly grumpy Sussex sensed a to Wembley for THAT Final. However, I belated opportunity and their appealing kept an eye on the score and 69-6 I did reached a crescendo. Finch withstood fear Kent might get a bit of a thrashing.
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