Jack Leaning-inspired Kent Spitfires comfortably beat Essex Eagles in Canterbury on Sunday to keep alive their chances of qualifying for the Metro Bank One-Day Cup knockout stages.
He blasted a fine unbeaten century and also got among the wickets in a 60-run success. “We, obviously, ended up with a really good score in the end,” Leaning said. “We probably thought it was more towards a 300 pitch, we thought it was slightly better than the pitch on Thursday.
So, when we lost those wickets in the middle, it was quite key one of us took stock and was there towards the end. “We’ve probably fallen down in the last couple of games where we’ve missed out towards the back-end.
But obviously, today was my day and I managed to get hold of a few at the end to get us to a really good score. “Towards the back-end of the second innings, it started to spin quite a bit.