Daniel Bell-Drummond scores 89 as Kent Spitfires (180-4) beat Hampshire Hawks (177-7) by six wickets

Daniel Bell-Drummond hopes Kent Spitfires’ convincing win over Hampshire Hawks on Friday night will “turn the page” on their Vitality Blast campaign.

Spitfires ended a run of five straight defeats with a six-wicket success at Canterbury in front of more than 3,500 spectators with just their second win in this season’s competition, chasing down the visitors’ total of 177-7.

Bell-Drummond, who hit an impressive 89 off just 55 balls, said: “It’s a great feeling. Obviously we’ve only won two but we’re hopefully going to show the side we can be in this tournament. “Some of the losses were close, some of them we didn’t turn up but it’s great to turn the page and hopefully we go on a run now. “We wanted to try something different, we normally try and bat first at Canterbury but we needed to try something new so we went with that. “It was a tough first ten overs, Ben McDermott and Joe Weatherley played really well but the guys showed their class and it just shows everyone’s been doing their bit.

We haven’t been able to bring it together and today was the first time we did since Gloucestershire really. “We did really well to restrict them because they were looking like they’d get 200 at one point so credit goes to the bowlers. “In the powerplay we’ve got one job, to get on with it and get off to a good start and I was scratching a bit for the first eight or nine balls but I think by the third or fourth over we were going to go.