Kent Spitfires (138-3) beat Gloucestershire (137 all out) by seven wickets in Bristol to make it three straight T20 Blast victories

It’s now three straight T20 Blast wins for Kent Spitfires who eased past Gloucestershire in Bristol in front of the TV cameras on Saturday evening.

Opener Daniel Bell-Drummond struck his third consecutive half-century while Jordan Cox also shone - both in the field and in an unbroken 61-run stand with Bell-Drummond - for Kent, who retain hopes of a top-four finish in the South group.

Spitfires skipper Sam Billings said: “We haven’t exactly been playing terrible cricket throughout the whole tournament.

“We lost on the last ball against Surrey at Canterbury, Sean Abbott has kind of had a day out when we were on top [at The Kia Oval], so all the games have been really tight – Somerset, we lost by 12 runs and it was effected by the weather. We’ve been playing really good cricket.

“Freddie Klaassen coming back has made a huge impact, we all know what a class bowler he is. Certainly, for a captain, where I can lock him in to take wickets in the powerplay, that makes a huge amount of difference.

“Just little things have started to click. We have started to find our rhythm, batters are getting substantial scores – and that makes a huge amount of difference – you need guys getting 60 or 70-plus.

“That’s how you get those big scores. We’re starting to do that. The bowlers are going from strength-to-strength.

“It’s really good with just how we have adapted to different conditions gameplan-wise but, also, our skill and execution is getting better and better.”

Billings, who named an unchanged side from the one which had beaten Middlesex the previous night, won the toss and elected to field first.

And the visitors made the perfect start, Grant Roelofsen finding Jack Leaning at slip off the first ball from bowler Fred Klaassen (1-24).