Match Details
Kirana: That’s the end of the first Quarter-final, Kent has won this game by 81 runs.
The first quarter-final of the Royal London One-Day Cup 2022 was held between Leicestershire and Kent. This was a home game for Leicestershire and this was held at Grace Road, Leicester, UK.
The hosts won the toss and they asked the visitors to bat first, For Kent, the openers Joey Evison 62(56) and Ben Compton 56(80) gave a solid start, they both added 95 runs for the first wicket, later Compton was well supported by Oliver Robinson 27(25) these two added 45 runs stand they both lost their wickets in quick session, Then Joe Denly 65(51) along with Darren Stevens 41(24) blistered the innings with some boundaries, In the end, Harry Finch 30(18) added some valuable runs for Kent, In their respective 50 overs Kent scored 325 for the loss of 8 wickets.
For Foxes South African bowler Beuran Hendricks, Chris Wright and Edward Barnes took 2 wickets each and their all-rounder Wian Mulder and Scott Steel took 1 wicket each, They bowled beautifully in the death which helped them to restrict the opponents from going past 340 mark.
Foxes chasing of 326 runs target got
an average start, Nick Welch 22(23) and Scott Steel 65(94) added 43 runs for the first wicket, They lost Rishi Patel cheaply, Later Steel and Wian Mulder81(71) steer
their innings with 93 runs stand, Once Steel departed the Foxes started losing the wickets in regular sessions, Arron Lilley 16(11), Sam Evans 17(17) they lost last 4 wickets for just 40 runs, in the end, they fell short by 81 runs, They managed to score 244/10 in the 42.4 overs span.
For Kent, Grant Stewart picked 4 wickets and he was well supported by Harry Podmore with 3 crucial wickets in the middle over, Nathan Gilchrist took 2 wickets and the 1 main wicket of Wian Mulder was picked by Joey Evison.