Australian overseas recruit Wes Agar says Kent Spitfires’ squad has enough quality to go far in the T20 Blast after 13-run Duckworth-Lewis loss to Somerset at Canterbury

Overseas recruit Wes Agar believes Kent have enough quality in their squad to go far in the T20 Blast.

The 26-year-old was expected to play just two County Championship Division 1 games but now has extended his Canterbury stay for a further two months, making his T20 Blast bow for the Spitfires in a rain-affected defeat to Somerset on Tuesday.

It means Kent have lost two of their first three South group games, a run of form they’ll aim to end when they visit Glamorgan this Friday before hosting Surrey on Sunday.

Agar, who came into the side after fellow Australian bowler Kane Richardson was ruled out through illness, said: “We know we need to win games of cricket to stay alive in this competition.

“We saw glimpses out there, you saw Sam Billings hit some good balls out there in the middle. We’ve got firepower in the shed and you just have to go one game back when we made 180.

“That’s a score that wins you games of cricket more often than not.

“We’ve got it there, we just need to put all the pieces together.”

Somerset won by 13 runs via the Duckworth-Lewis Method.

The contest was marred by three rain interruptions, but Somerset eventually restricted Kent to 112 in pursuit of a revised target of 126 from 15 overs, Benny Green taking 3-19 and Lewis Gregory stifling the hosts when they needed 18 off the last over.

Somerset were all out for 154 from 20 overs, Tom Lammonby their highest scorer with 34.

Agar took 3-18 and Michael Hogan - on the day before his 42nd birthday - bagged 3-33 but the Spitfires were always behind the rate in reply despite Billings’ best knock of the season as he made 29.

Agar added: “It was stop-start and Twenty20 is a massive game of momentum and, when you’re trying to arrest that momentum, it makes