Kent Spitfires v Somerset (Thu, 7pm)

Kent Spitfires will be aiming to close the gap on the top four in the NatWest T20 Blast group table and continue their recent good run against Somerset at The Spitfire Ground on Thursday (27 July, 7pm).

New Zealand paceman Adam Milne is closing in on a return to action for the Spitfires after a thigh injury for the floodlit match.

Batsman Adam Hose has left Somerset to join Warwickshire with immediate effect so there will be at least one change from the side that beat Middlesex at Taunton on Sunday.

New Zealand all-rounder Corey Anderson is sidelined with a back injury and former Kent Academy scholar Ryan Davies is in the Somerset squad.

Kent Spitfires squad: 23 Daniel Bell-Drummond, 6 Joe Denly, 17 Sam Northeast (c), 7 Sam Billings (wk), 83 Jimmy Neesham, 10 Alex Blake, 3 Darren Stevens, 25 Calum Haggett, 26 Matt Coles, 15 James Tredwell, 20 Adam Milne, 8 Mitch Claydon, 11 Imran Qayyum.

Somerset squad: Jim Allenby (c), Lewis Gregory, Johann Myburgh, Steve Davies (wk), Peter Trego, Tom Abell, James Hildreth, Michael Leask, Roelof van der Merwe, Ryan Davies (wk), Craig Overton, Josh Davey, Tim Groenewald, Max Waller.

Kent Spitfires v Somerset stats:

• The Spitfires have won their last six games against Somerset, last losing to them in June 2011.
• Somerset search for successive wins away from home for the first time since a brace of wins in June 2015.
• Having started the season with two wins from a possible three (L1), Kent Spitfires are currently enduring a three-game winless run (T1 L2).
• Sam Billings and Jimmy Neesham equalled Kent’s highest 4^th wicket T20 partnership in their recent outing (102 v Sussex Sharks).