Kent Spitfires moved into the top four in the Vitality Blast South Group thanks to a brilliant Daniel Bell-Drummond century against Middlesex on Friday night.
Bell-Drummond’s 111 off just 58 balls, which included four sixes, helped Spitfires post 228-3 on a warm evening at Canterbury, before they restricted Middlesex to 173 all out on their way to a sixth successive victory in the competition.
In front of a sold-out crowd in excess of 5,000, Bell-Drummond became the first Spitfires player to score a T20 ton this summer, taking his tally in 12 matches to 587 runs in the process at an average of 58.70.
Bell-Drummond said: “The key was keeping it simple and doing the basics well. Obviously we got off to a nice start once we knew we were batting first. “Middlesex came off a brilliant win yesterday so they will have been high, but it was just a case of making sure we stuck to our strengths. “It means everything to make a hundred, playing in front of a home crowd and it’s been a while since my last one.