Cricket News

Lightning and bad light ended batting practice for the touring West Indies who emerged second-best from their three-day draw with a makeshift Kent XI in Canterbury

Sean Dickson hit an excellent 142 to ensure West Indies endured three sessions of leather chasing on the second day against Kent at Canterbury

Rookie seam-bowler Charlie Hartley celebrated his Kent recall with career-best figures of 4 for 80 as the county's second-string bowling attack made West Indies toil for runs

Sam Billings showed the sort of form thyat won an IPL contract but Kent fell foul of a Sussex side making a late move up the South Group table

Shahid Afridi's four wickets gave Hampshire promise of victory but they dried up with the bat as Kent kept their last-eight hopes alive

Half-centuries by Jacques Rudolph and Aneurin Donald helped Glamorgan extend their leadership of the NatWest T20 Blast South Group with a 25-run win over Kent

Kent skipper Sam Northeast hit the winning boundary and finished with an unbeaten 54 as Kent secured a seven-wicket win under the DLS method over Somerset in a rain-affected NatWest T20 Blast clash at Canterbury

Alex Blake pulled off a last-ball run out to salvage a tie for Kent and reward Sam Billings first notable innings of the Blast season

Brendon McCullum stirred and suddenly Middlesex's NatWest Blast season was alive again as they saw off Kent at Richmond

Kent looked bound for victory at Canterbury until Tom Smith and Thisara Perera turned the tables for Gloucestershire with three-wicket spells

Joe Denly hit a career-best 116 not out as Kent chased down 206 in the NatWest T20 Blast to beat Surrey by eight wickets in front of a near 25,000 sell out at the Kia Oval

Kent and Northamptonshire played out a dull, high-scoring draw at Beckenham after Josh Cobb and the Northants lower order comfortably made the 24 more runs they required to avoid the follow-on early on the final day

Beckenham continued to be a batsman's paradise as Northants responded to Kent's 701 for 7 declared with big runs of their own

Sean Dickson plundered 318, Kent's highest individual score on home soil, and put on 382 with Joe Denly in the biggest partnership in the county's history as a host of records tumbled at Beckenham

Sean Dickson hit a career-best unbeaten double century and Joe Denly notched his third hundred of the summer as Kent enjoyed a first-day run fest

The combination of rain and the stubborn resistance of Kent's eighth-wicket pair denied Nottinghamshire victory at Trent Bridge

Darren Stevens left Trent Bridge to undergo a scan after a nasty blow to the back of the head during the night session against Nottinghamshire forced him to retire hurt

Jake Ball and Stuart Broad are doubtful for the Royal London Cup final on Saturday and that is also bad news for England with the first Test around a week away