Spitfires squad for Royal London One-Day Cup quarter-final v Surrey

Spitfires squad for Royal London One-Day Cup quarter-final v Surrey

Kent Spitfires go to the Kia Oval to take on Surrey on Thursday (27 August, 2pm) in a bid to reach their second successive Royal London One-Day Cup semi-final.

Nottinghamshire Outlaws await the winner in the final four on Sunday/Monday 6/7 September.

Head coach Jimmy Adams has named a 14-man squad for the trip to London with places for Sean Dickson and Adam Ball.

Entrance is free for under 16s, Kent Cricket Members and Six Pack package holders.

Kent Spitfires squad:17 Sam Northeast (c), 23 Daniel Bell-Drummond, 6 Joe Denly, 20 Sam Billings (wk), 3 Darren Stevens, 30 Fabian Cowdrey, 10 Alex Blake, 58 Sean Dickson, 24 Adam Ball, 26 Matt Coles, 15 James Tredwell, 5 Ivan Thomas, 8 Mitch Claydon, 14 Matt Hunn.

Surrey squad: 13 Gareth Batty (c), 22 Zafar Ansari, 17 Rory Burns, 8 James Burke, 51 Sam Curran, 59 Tom Curran, 9 Steven Davies, 16 Jade Dernbach, 4 Matt Dunn, 7 Ben Foakes, 47 Aneesh Kapil, 20 Jason Roy, 11 Kumar Sangakkara.

Surrey v Kent statistics:

•Surrey have won seven of their last eight List A games with all of these victories coming when batting first.

•Kent are unbeaten in their last five against Surrey (W4, T1), this after a run of six straight defeats against their local rivals.

•The last List A knock-out game between these two sides was the B&H Cup Final in 1997, a game Surrey won by 8 wickets.

•Steve Davies (475) is the leading run scorer in this year’s competition, in his six innings so far he has scored two centuries and been dismissed for 98 and 99 as well.

•Tom Curran has the best batting strike rate of anyone to score 100+ runs this season (142.9).

•Kenthave three players averaging more than 60 in the competition: Daniel Bell-Drummond (67.75), Sam Billings (67) and Alex Blake (62).

•Three Kent bowlers have an economy rate of under 5 an over in 50-over cricket in 2015: Darren Stevens (4.55), Fabian Cowdrey (4.67) and James Tredwell (4.77).