Kent Spitfires (297-7) beat Yorkshire Vikings (282-6) on Duckworth-Lewis in Royal London One-Day Cup as Grant Stewart hits match-winning six off final ball

Grant Stewart hit a last-ball six to give the Kent Spitfires a stunning three-wicket win over Yorkshire Vikings in a Royal London One-Day Cup thriller on Friday.

Kent went into the final over, needing 11 to keep their hopes of qualifying alive and Italian international Stewart declined a single off Matthew Revis’ penultimate ball to leave everything on the last delivery.

The all-rounder then pulled Revis through backward square leg to a huge cheer from the home crowd.

Yorkshire had posted 282-6 from 45 overs, Harry Duke top-scoring with 85, Will Fraine hitting 68 and debutant Finlay Bean 64.

After century stands for the first two wickets, Kent captain Joe Denly took 3-37 to rein Yorkshire in and a Duckworth-Lewis adjustment for a rain delay meant Kent were set a target of 297.

Ben Compton hit 81 and Denly 61 but, after reaching 189-2, miserly Yorkshire bowling saw the run-rate spiral until Stewart’s drastic late intervention.

A crowd of more than 2,000 at The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence, was boosted by around 80 refugees.

The hosts needed to win to stand any chance of reaching the knock-out stages and, with clouds hovering over Canterbury, they chose to field, but they struggled to make any impact early on.

An elegant glance for two from Nathan Gilchrist took Fraine to 50, but the breakthrough finally came in the 22nd over when he was lbw to Hamid Qadri.

It was an isolated success for Kent.

Duke was on 64 when he was put down by Gilchrist off his own bowling and he put on 107 for the second wicket with Bean. However, just as it began to rain, Denly tilted the equation with two wickets in three deliveries.

Bean drove him to Qadri and was caught. Then, with a hundred there for the taking, Duke skied Denly to Alex Blake.

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