Kent head coach Matt Walker didn’t hold back after a dreadful first day of their LV= Insurance County Championship clash at Canterbury against Warwickshire on Monday.
After the winning the toss, Kent collapsed to 78-7 before a Grant Stewart half-century helped them to 171 all out. Warwickshire then reached 155-2 by the close to put themselves in pole position. “It wasn’t a great day and we’re up against it,” said Walker. “It wasn’t a bad toss to win at all.
It was a good toss to win, we just played very poorly. “It’s extremely disappointing with the way this group has been batting, to play like that. “We’ve probably gifted them the major percentage of our wickets today on what was a really docile wicket.
I think you can look at Ben Compton getting a fairly decent ball, but most of the players will be pretty disappointed in the way they got out. “We’ve only got ourselves to blame.