Kent Spitfires v Lancashire Lightning: One-Day Cup squads
Friday 7th August 2015
Kent Spitfires aim to take a step forward on the Road to Lord's when face Lancashire Lightning on Saturday in the Royal London One-Day Cup (10.30am start).
A win would propel the Spitfires back into the top four places in Group B, which qualify for the quarter-finals at the end of the group stage.
Skipper Sam Northeast said: “It’s taken me a little time to know my game and how to adapt to different formats. It’s a very English mentality that we focus so strongly on four-day cricket at the starts of our careers, then expand our one-day games as we go on. That’s the process I’ve been going through, I guess.
“Championship cricket comes complete with a challenging mental approach day in, day out, whereas with the shorter forms you can just go out there and have fun. I’m enjoying that balance.
"As the T20 Blast performances this year have shown, there’s a good spirit amongst the lads and we’ve tried to take that forward and get on a roll in the Royal London One-Day Cup."
Kent Spitfires squad:17 Sam Northeast (c), 23 Daniel Bell-Drummond, 6 Joe Denly, 30 Fabian Cowdrey, 3 Darren Stevens, 10 Alex Blake, 20 Sam Billings (wk), 24 Adam Ball, 25 Calum Haggett, 26 Matt Coles, 15 James Tredwell, 8 Mitch Claydon, 14 Matt Hunn.
Lancashire Lightning squad:15 Steven Croft (c), 11 Tom Bailey, 14 Karl Brown, 16 Jordan Clark, 17 Alex Davies (wk), 26 James Faulkner, 18 Gavin Griffiths, 20 Paul Horton, 10 Kyle Jarvis, 4 Arron Lilley, 7 Liam Livingstone, 25 Stephen Parry, 73 Alviro Petersen, 5 Ashwell Prince.
Kent Spitfires v Lancashire Lightning stats
· Lancashire Lightning have registered a win in four of their last five visits to Kent (L1).
· Kent Spitfires come into this game having won six of their last seven completed home matches (L1).
· Lancashire Lightning have only managed one win in four away matches, they had managed a run of three straight wins on the road immediately before this current streak.
· Daniel Bell-Drummond has scored more runs (168) and has the best average of any Kent batsman this season (84).