Kentish Express Ashford & District
Record wasn’t my best
DL Lloyd c Billings b Thomas ............32 JA Rudolph c Billings b Coles ..............3 WD Bragg c Northeast b Haggett.......94 CA Ingram c Tredwell b Stevens .....114 KS Carlson c Stevens b Haggett ........19 CB Cooke c Stevens b Coles .............33 CAJ Meschede c Northeast b Thomas.. 15 AG Salter not out...............................29 M de Lange not out .............................2 Extras (lb1,w12,nb2) .........................15
TK Curran 6-2-32-1, SM Curran 8- 0-43-3, SC Meaker 6.4-1-37-4, R Rampaul 6- 0-30- 0, SG Borthwick 5- 0-37-1, GJ Batty 4- 0-22- 0. P Mustard c Rouse b Coles ...............26 M Klinger c Harris b Denly .............134 CDJ Dent b Hartley ...........................43 IA Cockbain c Denly b Coles ..............35 JMR Taylor c Dickson b c Coles ........20 BAC Howell c Rouse b Harris...............2 GT Hankins c Bell-Drummond b Coles.. 0 TMJ Smith not out ..............................1 LC Norwell b Harris .............................0 CJ Liddle not out.................................3 Extras (b1, lb2, w8) ...........................11 Darren Stevens down played his record-breaking blitz at Swansea on Sunday, claiming it was not even the best innings of his career.
The 41-year-old smashed a career best 147 from just 67 balls – with 10 fours and 14 sixes – in the Royal London One-Day Cup defeat at Glamorgan – Kent’s highest ever white-ball knock.
Stevens said: “It was a great pitch – 700 runs scored in a game, 35 sixes, what more can you say? It’s just a shame we didn’t come out on the winning side.”
Stevens – who took 11 balls to make his first seven runs – said: “I wasn’t thinking about (beating Alex Blake’s 46-ball century against Somerset), all I was thinking about was trying to get us to 200, to 250, 300. I wasn’t thinking about fastest hundreds and all that sort of stuff.