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Bell-Drummond, Denly set record in Kent opening-night win
- Updated: May 20, 2016
Kent 200 for 2 (Bell-Drummond 83*, Denly 75) beat Somerset 197 for 7 (Allenby 91, Trego 57, Cowdrey 3-18) by eight wickets Scorecard
Kent Spitfires launched their NatWest T20 Blast campaign in style by romping to an eight-wicket win over Somerset in Canterbury.
Last season’s quarter-finalists made light work of the run chase as they pursued Somerset’s spanking 197 for 7 to land victory with 16 balls to spare.
The hosts were given a stunning start to their innings by in-form Daniel Bell-Drummond and Joe Denly, who posted 150 for the first wicket in 12.3 overs – a Kent record T20 partnership for any wicket against any county.
In front of a 5,000 crowd at the Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence, Kent’s openers dismantled the Somerset attack with boundaries to all parts of the ground.
Bell-Drummond, the England Lions’ batsman who is approaching 600 first-class runs for the season already, led the way with an unbeaten 83 off 47 balls. He hit 10 fours and a brace of sixes.
Having taken 22 off one over from former Kent seamer Yasir Arafat, Bell-Drummond was dropped in the deep on 34, but never looked back thereafter, taking the man-of-the-match award after clubbing the winning boundary.
Denly, fresh from a first-class, …
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