Kent Spitfires v Lancashire Lightning (Thu, 7pm)

Thursday 23rd August 2018

Men’s First Team

Vitality Blast

Kent Spitfires v Lancashire Lightning (Thu, 7pm)

Australian all-rounder Marcus Stoinis has been named in a 15-man Kent squad for tonight’s all-or-nothing Vitality Blast quarter-final clash with Lancashire Lightning at The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence.

The 29-year-old has missed the last four group games with a hamstring niggle.

It means the Spitfires will be back to full strength for the game, a victory in which will take them to finals day for the first time in a decade,  while for the visitors, England Test duo Jos Buttler, fresh from his maiden Test century against India earlier this week, and Keaton Jennings, have both been named in a 14-man squad.

The Red Rose county won three of their last four group matches to qualify for the quarter-finals, finishing with eight wins and five defeats from 14 in all.

The game will be televised on Sky Sports and is the first of the quarter-finals.

Kent squad:  7 Sam Billings (c/wk), 6 Joe Denly, 23 Daniel Bell-Drummond, 4 Heino Kuhn, 17 Marcus Stoinis, 10 Alex Blake, 58 Sean Dickson, 25 Calum Haggett, 20 Adam Milne, 11 Imran Qayyum, 8 Mitch Claydon, 5 Ivan Thomas, 1 Harry Podmore, 9 Grant Stewart, 16 Zak Crawley

Lancashire squad: Alex Davies, Aaron Lilley, Danny Lamb, Dane Vilas, Jos Buttler, Jordan Clark, James Faulkner, Karl Brown, Keaton Jennings, Matt Parkinson, Mark Watt, Steven Croft, Toby Lester, Zahir Khan

Gates open at 5pm and parking is available at the nearby Simon Langton Girls Grammar (CT1 3EW) for £10 or at the New Dover Road Park and Ride for £3.50 per day with a low-floor bus dropping outside the main pedestrian entrance to the ground.

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