Dismissal angers Bell-Drummond

Daniel Bell-Drummond registered his maiden LV= County Championship hundred – 101 against Derbyshire – in June. And the young Kent opener admits he missed a great opportunity to have scored his first one-day century in the 59-run Royal London One-Day Cup success over Sussex at The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence, last Wednesday. Bell-Drummond scored a one-day career-best 83 off 103 balls – a knock which passed his previous best, the 61 he scored in the victory against Somerset at Taunton last month – as his side booked a home quarter-final next week. That game gives the former England under-19 player another chance to reach three figures, something he said he should have done against Sussex. He said: “I was so angry for getting out, not only from a personal point of view but also from the team’s perspective at that stage of the game. “I should have gone on and got to a hundred and then pressed on and turned it into a big one because I’d done all the hard work. “It wasn’t the best of innings, I needed to battle through it and I did, so that’s why I am so disappointed to have missed out.” But at least the innings did end a run of low scores in the competition for Bell-Drummond. Since the 61 against Somerset, he scored 18 against Surrey, five against Glamorgan before he failed to trouble the scorers against Nottinghamshire. Not that BellDrummond was overly worried about that run. He said: “I’ve been doing a bit of tinkering with my technique, like all players do but it’s been nothing major and I can’t use that as an excuse. “There is always a fine line between success and failure – everyone has been there, you just have to forget about it and focus on your next innings.”