Kent bat without difficulty on opening morning at Grace Road

Kent, after winning the toss and electing to bat moved comfortably on to 100-2 at the lunch time interval scoring at 2.9 per over.

Leicestershire felt that if there was to be anything in the wicket then it would be early on and once again Jimmy Ormond duly obliged. Ormond, with an average of 24.40 and taking 42 wickets so far this season, picked up the first wicket of Hockley through a regulation catch to the wicket keeper Neil Burns. He then had Fulton caught at first slip when the score had reached 42.

Since then Kent have never really looked in any difficulty especially with Dravid at the crease. He looked to dominate the bowling from the start and quickly raced on to 41. Most of his boundaries were scored square of the wicket indicating that the Leicestershire bowlers were bowling too short at times.