Kent County Cricket Club in 2010 explained

Club:	Kent County Cricket Club
Season:	2010
Coach:	Paul Farbrace
Captain:	Rob Key
Overseas:	Malinga Bandara (May–September) Makhaya Ntini (April–May)
Overseastitle:	Overseas players
Ground:	St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells County Ground, Beckenham
Comp1:	County Championship
Comp1 Result:	8th, Division One (relegated)
Comp2:	Clydesdale Bank 40
Comp2 Result:	2nd, Group C
Comp3:	Friends Provident t20
Comp3 Result:	7th, South Group
Most Runs:
Most Wickets:
Most Catches:
Most Dismissals:
Prevseason:	2009
Nextseason:	2011

In 2010, Kent County Cricket Club competed in Division One of the County Championship, Group C of the 40-over Clydesdale Bank 40 and the South Group of the Friends Provident t20. Kent also hosted three-day first-class matches at the St Lawrence Ground against Loughborough MCCU and the touring Pakistanis. It was the first season in charge for Director of Cricket Paul Farbrace.^[1] The club captain was former England batsman Rob Key who had been club captain since 2006. Kent's overseas players were South African fast bowler Makhaya Ntini until late May,^[2] and Sri Lankan leg-spinner Malinga Bandara for the rest of the season.^[3]

Kent were relegated from Division One of the County Championship in their first season since promotion from Division Two. They finished second in Group C of the Clydesdale Bank 40 and seventh in the South Group of the Friends Provident t20 (they did not progress to the knock-out stages of either competition).

Squad

It was announced in December 2009 that former South Africa batsman Justin Kemp would not return for the 2010 season due to changes to the Kolpak regulations under which he had been able to play county cricket since 2005.^[4] Kent had already lost fast bowler Martin Saggers after 11 seasons, when the player announced his retirement at the end of the 2009 season due to a serious knee injury.^[5]

In January, Kent announced that their overseas player would be Australian fast bowler Stuart Clark for the first half of the season,^[6] followed by Sri Lankan leg-spinner Malinga Bandara for the second half of the season. Clark had previously signed to play for Kent in the 2009 season,^[7] but later withdrew due to a late call up to the Australian tour of South Africa.^[8] However, in March 2010 it was announced that, for a second time, Clark would not play for the county – this time due to concerns about his fitness.^[9] A week later, Kent announced the signing of South African fast bowler Makhaya Ntini as a replacement for Clark. Ntini signed a five-week deal to play until Bandara arrived in late May.

South African-born Scotland international, Dewald Nel, signed a two-year contract with Kent in March 2010 after impressing while on trial.^[10]

Leg-spin bowler Mark Lawson (cricketer) signed for Kent during the season and played a single match (against the touring Pakistanis), but was later released.^[11]

In late July, Kent released slow left-arm spinner Rob Ferley 22 year-old medium-fast bowler Warren Lee).^[12] Lee would go on to play for the Unicorns (cricket team) in 2012 and 2013. A few days later, Kent released James Hockley from his second spell with the county.^[13] Hockley would now concentrate on his teaching career. Phil Edwards was released in late August.^[14]

Fast bowler Amjad Khan left Kent at the end of the 2010 season to join Sussex, having been at the county since 2001.^[15] Second XI wicket-keeper Paul Dixey also left after the end of the season and signed for Leicestershire.

Squad list

• Ages given as of the first day of the County Championship season, 9 April 2010.

Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Batsmen
		April 9, 2010	Left-handed
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed		Released in August
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed		Club captain
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed
		April 9, 2010	Left-handed
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed		Kolpak player, vice-captain
All-rounders
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed		British citizen
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed
		April 9, 2010	Left-handed
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed		Brief spell in September
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed
Wicket-keepers
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed	—
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed	—
Bowlers
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed		Overseas player (from late May)
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed		Released in August
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed		Released in July
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed		Released in July
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed		Overseas player (April–May)
		April 9, 2010	Right-handed
		April 9, 2010	Left-handed

County Championship

Division One

width=175	Team	width=20 abbr="Played"	Pld	width=20 abbr="Won"	W	width=20 abbr="Lost"	L	width=20 abbr="Drawn"	D	width=20 abbr="Tied"	T	width=20 abbr="Abandoned"	A	width=20 abbr="Batting Points"	Bat	width=20 abbr="Bowling Points"	Bwl	width=20 abbr="Deducted points"	Ded	width=20 abbr="Points"	Pts
Nottinghamshire (C)	16	7	5	4	0	0	47	43	0	214
Somerset	16	6	2	8	0	0	53	41	0	214
Yorkshire	16	6	2	8	0	0	41	42	0	203
Lancashire	16	5	3	8	0	0	35	43	0	182
Durham	16	5	3	8	0	0	30	39	0	173
Warwickshire	16	6	9	1	0	0	20	47	0	166
Hampshire	16	3	6	7	0	0	47	41	0	157
Kent (R)	16	3	7	6	0	0	42	44	1	151
Essex (R)	16	2	6	8	0	0	29	43	2	126

Matches

Other first-class matches

Tour match

Clydesdale Bank 40

Group A

width=200	Team	width=20	Pld	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	T	width=20	N/R	width=20	Pts	width=60	Net R/R
Warwickshire Bears	12	9	3	0	0	18	+0.314
Kent Spitfires	12	7	3	0	2	16	+0.773
Nottinghamshire Outlaws	12	7	4	0	1	15	+0.348
Hampshire Hawks	12	6	6	0	0	12	+0.006
Durham Dynamos	12	5	6	0	1	11	+0.262
Leicestershire Foxes	12	4	8	0	0	8	−0.220
Scotland	12	2	10	0	0	4	−1.225

Matches

Friends Life t20

South Division

width=200	Team	width=20	Pld	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=20	T	width=20	N/R	width=20	Pts	width=60	Net R/R
Somerset	16	11	5	0	0	22	+0.418
Essex Eagles	16	10	6	0	0	20	+0.395
Sussex Sharks	16	9	7	0	0	18	+0.606
Hampshire Royals	16	8	8	0	0	16	+0.385
Surrey Lions	16	8	8	0	0	16	+0.183
Middlesex Crusaders	16	8	8	0	0	16	+0.018
Kent Spitfires	16	7	9	0	0	14	−0.163
Glamorgan Dragons	16	6	10	0	0	12	−0.979
Gloucestershire Gladiators	16	5	11	0	0	10	−0.943

Matches

Statistics

Batting

First-class (County Championship and MCCU match)!Player!Matches!Innings!!Runs!!!!!!!!

Martin van Jaarsveld	17	29	2	1,188	110*	44.00	56.49	3	6	1	141	8
Geraint Jones	17	31	0	1,003	178	32.35	57.97	3	2	3	132	6
Darren Stevens	15	26	3	979	197	42.56	64.07	4	2	3	112	13
Joe Denly	18	33	0	848	106	25.69	53.63	1	5	6	110	6
Rob Key	16	28	2	814	261	31.30	59.67	2	1	2	100	7
Sam Northeast	17	30	0	719	71	23.96	47.02	0	4	2	91	2
James Tredwell	12	20	2	489	115	27.16	46.13	1	1	0	64	1
Matt Coles	14	23	6	378	51	22.23	64.72	0	1	2	47	6
Alex Blake	9	17	1	359	105*	22.43	63.31	1	0	4	53	4
Azhar Mahmood	8	14	0	317	64	22.64	64.69	0	2	2	39	1
Simon Cook	15	24	7	205	26*	12.05	57.10	0	0	4	30	2
James Hockley	6	11	1	141	82	14.10	47.00	0	1	2	21	0
Amjad Khan	12	18	5	115	24	8.84	45.09	0	0	5	15	0
Malinga Bandara	6	10	3	105	29	15.00	47.51	0	0	2	9	2
James Goodman	1	2	1	59	59	59.00	44.02	0	1	0	6	0
Chris Piesley	1	2	0	43	43	21.50	41.93	0	0	1	4	0
Mark Lawson	1	1	0	31	31	31.00	91.17	0	0	0	5	1
Robbie Joseph	2	3	2	30	18*	30.00	34.88	0	0	0	4	0
Makhaya Ntini	5	8	3	25	13	5.00	38.46	0	0	3	3	0
Paul Dixey	1	1	0	22	22	22.00	57.89	0	0	0	3	0
Rob Ferley	1	2	0	20	19	10.00	39.21	0	0	0	1	0
Phil Edwards	2	3	1	20	13	10.00	27.77	0	0	0	3	0
Dewald Nel	3	2	0	6	4	3.00	13.63	0	0	0	0	0
Source: Cricinfo^[16]

List A (Clydesdale Bank 40)!Player!Matches!Innings!!Runs!!!!!!!!

Joe Denly	11	11	1	467	102*	46.70	79.42	1	2	0	48	5
Martin van Jaarsveld	11	11	4	388	104*	55.42	101.04	1	4	1	36	5
Rob Key	10	10	1	352	87	39.11	94.87	0	2	1	43	3
Darren Stevens	11	9	3	212	55	35.33	99.06	0	1	1	12	8
Geraint Jones	11	8	1	133	40	19.00	85.80	0	0	1	9	0
Alex Blake	8	4	3	128	81*	128.00	126.73	0	1	1	15	2
Azhar Mahmood	7	5	2	109	44	36.33	126.74	0	0	1	11	2
Rob Ferley	2	1	0	52	52	52.00	78.78	0	1	0	5	0
Paul Muchall	1	1	0	22	22	22.00	57.89	0	0	0	1	0
James Tredwell	8	2	0	21	11	10.50	77.77	0	0	0	1	0
Sam Northeast	4	2	0	15	9	7.50	62.50	0	0	0	2	0
Simon Cook	9	2	1	10	9	10.00	83.33	0	0	0	2	0
James Hockley	2	1	1	9	9*	-	81.81	0	0	0	0	0
Adam Ball	1	1	0	5	5	5.00	71.42	0	0	0	0	0
Malinga Bandara	5	1	0	5	5	5.00	62.50	0	0	0	0	0
Amjad Khan	6	1	1	5	5*	-	62.50	0	0	0	0	0
Makhaya Ntini	4	1	1	3	3*	-	75.00	0	0	0	0	0
Dewald Nel	4	1	1	2	2*	-	66.66	0	0	0	0	0
Matt Coles	6	1	0	1	1	1.00	33.33	0	0	0	0	0
Source:Cricinfo^[17]

Twenty20 (Friends Life t20 and Tour match)!Player!Matches!Innings!!Runs!!!!!!!!

Martin van Jaarsveld	16	16	1	421	82	28.06	128.35	0	4	0	44	7
Joe Denly	12	12	0	382	65	31.83	115.75	0	1	0	49	3
Darren Stevens	14	13	4	369	52*	41.00	149.39	0	2	0	32	14
Rob Key	12	12	1	277	98*	25.18	137.81	0	1	2	41	2
Geraint Jones	16	15	1	240	54	17.14	118.22	0	1	1	25	4
Azhar Mahmood	16	15	3	194	34	16.16	109.60	0	0	0	19	3
Alex Blake	15	12	2	122	33	12.20	127.08	0	0	0	6	7
Matt Coles	14	9	1	60	16*	7.50	122.44	0	0	1	4	3
Sam Northeast	4	4	2	48	21	24.00	102.12	0	0	0	3	0
James Tredwell	10	7	1	47	25	7.83	87.03	0	0	0	0	1
James Hockley	6	6	0	39	18	6.50	97.50	0	0	1	5	0
Malinga Bandara	16	7	1	38	10	6.33	86.36	0	0	0	0	2
Simon Cook	16	6	5	19	8*	19.00	90.47	0	0	0	2	0
Amjad Khan	4	3	2	6	2*	6.00	85.71	0	0	0	0	0
Ashley Shaw	4	2	2	4	3*	-	133.33	0	0	0	0	0
Robbie Joseph	1	0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Source: Cricinfo^[18]

Bowling

First-class (County Championship and MCCU match)!Player!Matches!Innings!Overs!Maidens!Runs!Wickets!!!!!!!

James Tredwell	12	21	377.0	71	1,151	38	7/22	8/22	30.28	3.05	59.5	2	0
Amjad Khan	12	21	372.2	82	1,258	38	5/43	7/72	33.10	3.37	58.7	1	0
Simon Cook	15	25	331.3	68	1,132	37	4/62	7/141	30.59	3.41	53.7	0	0
Azhar Mahmood	8	15	279.3	55	847	30	5/62	7/116	28.23	3.03	55.9	2	0
Darren Stevens	15	24	280.1	74	768	28	4/38	7/101	27.42	2.74	60.0	0	0
Matt Coles	14	27	280.0	42	1,040	27	4/55	5/102	38.51	3.71	62.2	0	0
Makhaya Ntini	5	10	164.0	44	474	24	6/51	10/104	19.75	2.89	41.0	2	1
Malinga Bandara	6	10	210.4	32	745	18	4/42	8/141	41.38	3.53	70.2	0	0
Dewald Nel	3	4	54.0	12	190	10	6/62	9/119	19.00	3.51	32.4	1	0
Mark Lawson	1	2	34.0	2	164	6	4/93	6/164	27.33	4.82	34.0	0	0
Martin van Jaarsveld	17	16	123.0	17	332	5	2/50	2/33	66.40	2.69	147.6	0	0
Alex Blake	9	2	19.0	2	69	3	2/9	2/9	23.00	3.63	38.0	0	0
Phil Edwards	2	3	34.0	10	145	3	2/60	2/68	48.33	4.26	68.0	0	0
Joe Denly	18	9	53.0	2	215	3	2/100	2/138	71.66	4.05	106.0	0	0
Rob Key	16	3	15.2	3	45	2	2/31	2/31	22.50	2.93	46.0	0	0
Rob Ferley	1	2	26.0	2	142	2	1/54	2/142	71.00	5.46	78.0	0	0
James Hockley	6	8	43.0	5	175	2	1/8	1/8	87.50	4.06	129.0	0	0
Robbie Joseph	2	3	52.0	9	185	2	2/112	2/112	92.50	3.55	156.0	0	0
James Goodman	1	1	6.0	0	16	1	1/16	1/16	16.00	2.66	36.0	0	0
Geraint Jones	17	1	1.0	0	8	0	-	-	-	8.00	-	0	0
Sam Northeast	17	2	6.0	3	8	0	-	-	-	1.33	-	0	0
Source: Cricinfo^[19]

List A (Clydesdale Bank 40)!Player!Matches!Innings!Overs!Maidens!Runs!Wickets!!!!!!

Matt Coles	6	5	25.0	2	150	14	4/47	10.71	6.00	10.7	1	0
Malinga Bandara	5	5	33.0	1	143	13	5/35	11.00	4.33	15.2	0	1
James Tredwell	8	8	55.0	3	207	11	4/20	18.81	3.76	30.0	1	0
Simon Cook	9	8	51.0	2	251	10	3/39	25.10	4.92	30.6	0	0
Azhar Mahmood	7	6	41.0	1	223	6	2/7	37.16	5.43	41.0	0	0
Martin van Jaarsveld	11	5	13.4	0	65	5	3/23	13.00	4.75	16.4	0	0
Amjad Khan	6	5	29.0	1	151	4	3/32	37.75	5.20	43.5	0	0
Makhaya Ntini	4	3	23.0	2	96	3	1/28	32.00	4.17	46.0	0	0
Dewald Nel	4	3	18.5	0	137	3	1/20	45.66	7.27	37.6	0	0
Darren Stevens	11	8	39.0	3	199	3	1/15	66.33	5.10	78.0	0	0
Adam Ball	1	1	5.0	1	16	1	1/16	16.00	3.20	30.0	0	0
Paul Muchall	1	1	4.0	0	34	1	1/34	34.00	8.50	24.0	0	0
James Hockley	2	1	3.0	0	29	0	-	-	9.66	-	0	0
Rob Ferley	2	2	9.0	0	47	0	-	-	5.22	-	0	0
Source:Cricinfo^[20]

Twenty20 (Friends Life t20 and Tour match)!Player!Matches!Innings!Overs!Maidens!Runs!Wickets!!!!!!

Simon Cook	16	16	57.0	1	413	21	3/13	19.66	7.24	16.2	0	0
Malinga Bandara	16	16	48.0	0	384	17	3/14	22.58	8.00	16.9	0	0
Matt Coles	14	13	37.2	0	324	15	3/30	21.60	8.67	14.9	0	0
Azhar Mahmood	16	16	57.0	2	394	15	2/18	26.26	6.91	22.8	0	0
Darren Stevens	14	14	39.0	1	287	12	3/17	23.91	7.35	19.5	0	0
James Tredwell	10	10	31.0	0	268	11	3/13	24.36	8.64	16.9	0	0
Amjad Khan	4	4	10.2	0	104	4	2/27	26.00	10.06	15.5	0	0
Martin van Jaarsveld	16	4	12.0	0	75	3	3/25	25.00	6.25	24.0	0	0
Ashley Shaw	4	4	10.0	0	84	2	1/10	42.00	8.40	30.0	0	0
James Hockley	6	3	4.5	0	32	1	1/9	32.00	6.62	29.0	0	0
Robbie Joseph	1	1	2.0	0	25	0	-	-	12.50	-	0	0
Source: Cricinfo^[21]

External links

• Kent home at ESPN cricinfo
• Kent County Cricket Club official site

Notes and References

1. https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/cricket/paul-farbrace-set-to-be-new-kent-coach-6765290.html?amp Paul Farbrace set to be new Kent coach
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/kent/8640513.stm Kent sign Makhaya Ntini as overseas player
3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/kent/8485808.stm Sri Lankan leg spinner Malinga Bandara signs for Kent
4. http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/south-african-batsman-justin-kem-a90400 South African batsman Justin Kemp will not be returning to Kent next summer
5. http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/story/425145.html Martin Saggers announces retirement
6. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/kent/8443492.stm Kent capture Australian paceman Stuart Clark
7. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/kent/7947880.stm Australia seamer Clark joins Kent
8. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/australia/7994826.stm Clark call-up forces Kent rethink
9. http://kentcricket.co.uk/news/stuart-clark-will-not-play-for-kent-in-2010 Stuart Clark will not play for Kent in 2010
10. http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/kent-county-cricket-club-sign-sc-a86639/ Kent County Cricket Club sign Scotland bowler Dewald Nel
11. http://www.kentcricket.co.uk/news/lawson-aiming-to-make-it-third-time-lucky-with-kent Lawson aiming to make it third time lucky with Kent
12. http://www.kentcricket.co.uk/news/kent-to-release-rob-ferley-and-warren-lee Kent to release Rob Ferley and Warren Lee
13. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/kent/8904119.stm Batsman James Hockley released by Kent
14. http://kentcricket.co.uk/news/club-release-phil-edwards Club release Phil Edwards
15. http://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/8390807.Amjad_Khan_to_join_Sussex/ Amjad Khan to join Sussex
16. http://stats.espncricinfo.com/kent/engine/records/batting/most_runs_career.html?class=4;id=2010;team=1149;type=season Season 2010 - Kent / Records / First-class matches / Most runs
17. http://stats.espncricinfo.com/kent/engine/records/batting/most_runs_career.html?class=5;id=2010;team=1149;type=season Season 2010 - Kent / Records / List A matches / Most runs
18. http://stats.espncricinfo.com/kent/engine/records/batting/most_runs_career.html?class=6;id=2010;team=1149;type=season Season 2010 - Kent / Records / Twenty20 matches / Most runs
19. http://stats.espncricinfo.com/kent/engine/records/bowling/most_wickets_career.html?class=4;id=2010;team=1149;type=season Season 2010 - Kent / Records / First-class matches / Most wickets
20. http://stats.espncricinfo.com/kent/engine/records/bowling/most_wickets_career.html?class=5;id=2010;team=1149;type=season Season 2010 - Kent / Records / List A matches / Most wickets
21. http://stats.espncricinfo.com/kent/engine/records/bowling/most_wickets_career.html?class=6;id=2010;team=1149;type=season Season 2010 - Kent / Records / Twenty20 matches / Most wickets