This is a list of Kent County Cricket Club Twenty20 cricket records; that is, record team and individual performances in Twenty20 cricket for Kent County Cricket Club.
Kent played their first Twenty20 match in the domestic 2003 Twenty20 Cup against Hampshire at Beckenham.[1] The club has played in each of the domestic Twenty20 competitions since, winning the competition in 2007 and 2021 and finishing as runners-up in 2008. The club plays Twenty20 cricket under the name Kent Spitfires, an allusion to the role of the Supermarine Spitfire in the Battle of Britain during 1940, much of which took place in the skies over the county. As of July 2021 the club has played over 220 Twenty20 matches, including two matches against touring international teams.[2] [3]
All records last updated 10 December 2023
The highest partnership for Kent is 207 runs scored for the 1st wicket by Daniel Bell-Drummond and Joe Denly against Essex at Chelmsford in 2017. This set a new highest first-wicket stand in all Twenty20 cricket globally and became the third highest partnership for any wicket in the form of the game and the highest in the English domestic T20 competition.[5] [6] [7] [8] It surpassed the 163 runs the same players had scored earlier in the season against Surrey at The Oval[9] [10] which had, in turn, bettered Kent's previous highest partnership of 151 made the previous season by Bell-Drummond and Sam Northeast and the county's highest opening partnership of 150 scored between Bell-Drummond and Denly, also in 2016.[11] [12]
| Partnership | Runs | Players | Opposition | Venue | Season | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st wicket | 207 | Joe Denly | Daniel Bell-Drummond | v Essex | County Ground, Chelmsford | 2017 | |
| 2nd wicket | 157 | Joe Denly | 2022 | ||||
| 3rd wicket | 130 | 2011 | |||||
| 4th wicket | 106 | St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury | 2018 | ||||
| 5th wicket | 123 | Jordan Cox | v Middlesex | St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury | 2021 | ||
| 6th wicket | 108* | Sam Northeast | v Hampshire | Southampton | 2015 | ||
| 7th wicket | 62 | v Hampshire | 2006 | ||||
| 8th wicket | 52 | St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury | 2015 | ||||
| 9th wicket | 33* | County Cricket Ground, Beckenham | 2007 | ||||
| 10th wicket | 31 | St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury | 2016 | ||||
Seven batsmen have scored centuries for Kent in Twenty20 cricket, with two having done so on more than one occasion. Joe Denly has scored five centuries for the side in T20 cricket and Daniel Bell-Drummond two. Denly recording the two highest individual scores in the format for the county, both made in 2017. He scored 116 not out made against Surrey at The Oval in July followed by a score of 127 made against Essex at Chelmsford in August.
Andrew Symonds scored Kent's first T20 century in 2004, scoring 112 runs against Middlesex at Maidstone.[13] [14] Symonds scored his century in 34 balls, at the time a record for the fastest century in T20 cricket. As of May 2024 it is the fifth quickest century scored in top-level T20 matches worldwide and the joint-fastest scored in the UK.[15] [16] The other Kent centurions in T20 matches are Azhar Mahmood, Sam Northeast, Zak Crawley, and, most recently, Sam Billings.[17] [18]
Eleven players have scored more than 1,000 runs for the county in the format, with Denly the leading run scorer in Twenty20 cricket for the side.
Five bowlers have taken five wickets in a Twenty20 innings for Kent, Wahab Riaz in 2011, Mitchell Claydon in 2013, Adam Milne in 2017, Imran Qayyum in 2019 and, most recently, Matt Milnes in 2021. Adam Milne's five wickets for the cost of 11 runs in against Somerset in 2017 is the best bowling analysis for a Kent player.
Seven bowlers have taken hat-tricks for Kent in the format.[20] Ryan McLaren was the first to do so, doing so in the 2007 Twenty20 Cup final against Gloucestershire, Kent's first Twenty20 final success.[21] Wahab Riaz took a hat-trick in 2011 against Gloucestershire as part of his five-wicket haul, Matt Coles took one in 2017 against Middlesex and Joe Denly, primarily a batsman, took one in 2018 against Surrey in a match in which he also scored a century. Adam Milne took a hat-trick from the final three balls of a match against Surrey in 2021, Grant Stewart repeated the feat across two overs against Middlesex during the 2023 season, and Matt Parkinson took one on his Twenty20 debut for the side in 2024 season against Middlesex.
Only James Tredwell and Darren Stevens have taken more than 100 T20 wickets in total for the county as of June 2023.