Gloucestershire v Kent (Tue, 10.30am)

Monday 11th September 2017

Gloucestershire v Kent (Tue, 10.30am)

Kent add off-spinner James Tredwell to the Specsavers County Championship squad to play Gloucestershire at Bristol on Tuesday (10.30am).

Sam Billings has receovered from illness and captain Sam Northeast has a fully-fit bowling unit with the options of playing two spinners.

The hosts named an unchanged squad from their ten-wicket win against Leicestershire last week and include rookie batsman James Bracey and on-loan Yorkshire seamer Josh Shaw.

Glos squad: 15 Chris Dent, 43 Cameron Bancroft, 27 Gareth Roderick (wk), James Bracey, 21 George Hankins, 19 Phil Mustard (c), 10 Jack Taylor, 11 Kieran Noema-Barnett, 6 Tom Smith, 36 Matt Taylor, 24 Liam Norwell, 25 Josh Shaw

Kent squad: 23 Daniel Bell-Drummond, 58 Sean Dickson, 6 Joe Denly, 17 Sam Northeast (c), 7 Sam Billings (wk), 16 Zak Crawley, 3 Darren Stevens, 25 Calum Haggett, 26 Matt Coles, 20 Adam Milne, 15 James Tredwell, 8 Mitch Claydon, 11 Imran Qayyum, 14 Matt Hunn.

Glos v Kent stats:

  • Kent are unbeaten in five matches against Gloucestershire (W3 D2).
  • In fact, Kent have claimed victory in three of their last four matches on the road against Gloucestershire (L1).
  • Gloucestershire have not lost at home in six matches (W2 D4).
  • Darren Stevens (Kent) has taken five wickets in six innings during this campaign; the most often of any bowler in either division.