Kent 118 for two (Finch 64*, Billings 42*) beat Surrey 116 (Lintott 3-19) by eight wickets
Lintott’s left-arm wrist spin claimed three for 19 to spearhead a superb all-round bowling efficiency by Kent, earlier than Finch’s 64 not out led the Spitfires dwelling. And captain Sam Billings additionally had enjoyable with a quickfire unbeaten 42 as Kent eased to 118 for two in reply to Surrey’s 116 all out, profitable with six overs to spare.
Finch and Billings added an unbroken 89 for the third wicket after each Daniel Bell-Drummond and Zak Crawley had fallen cheaply within the six-over powerplay.
Bell-Drummond was yorked by Tom Lawes and Crawley skied Reece Topley to mid-off, however by then Finch had already signalled his intentions by taking a 4 and a beautifully-struck six off Tom Curran.
In all Finch confronted 42 balls, hitting that six and eight fours, whereas Billings struck Lawes for 3 fours in an over and hit six in complete from 28 balls in what was solely Kent’s second Blast win towards Surrey of their final 9 conferences.
Tom Curran was a lone menace with the bat for Surrey, his 32 off 21 balls that includes a six and three fours.
Surrey’s innings bought off to a foul begin, with Will Jacks splicing a easy catch to cowl to go for a duck from the final ball of Keith Dudgeon’s spectacular opening over, which value only a single.
It set the tone for what was to come back, with Kent’s bowling and fielding maintaining the strain on a Surrey batting line-up that merely couldn’t forged off the shackles.
Ollie Pope swivel-pulled two fours in Dudgeon’s subsequent over however on 10 drove Matt Milnes to mid-on and when Sam Curran fell mishitting a Lintott lengthy hop within the seventh over it did appear that every thing was going Kent’s manner.
Curran, the Surrey captain, had further cowl pushed Milnes for 4 after which launched Dudgeon for a unprecedented short-armed six over long-on. However, from 40 for two after the powerplay, the innings fell away as soon as Curran was brilliantly held inches from the turf by Finch, diving ahead as he ran in from deep midwicket.
Jason Roy, who had laboured 21 balls for 18, clubbed Lintott to mid-on – the bowler’s 5 dot balls to Laurie Evans then finishing a wicket maiden – and at midway Surrey had been 53 for 4.
That quickly grew to become 53 for five, Evans hitting a full toss from Lintott to deep midwicket, and solely a 4 and large six from Tom Curran in Lintott’s closing over spoiled his figures slightly.
From 97 for five after 15 overs the Surrey innings petered out as Curran skied to mid-off and Dan Lawrence was caught on the ropes for 16 aiming to membership Fred Klaassen for six.
Jordan Clark was run out for 4, after being despatched again by Lawes, and Surrey’s day was summed up from the subsequent ball when bowler Klaassen put down a fiercely-struck shot by Lawes however reacted shortly to expire non-striker Topley, who was backing up.
Lawes, who did scoop Klaassen for six over superb leg, was left 13 not out when final man Yousef Majid hit Dudgeon to mid-on within the closing over.
