Agar ready to learn on job

Australian overseas fast bowler Wes Agar will be prepared to put his “ego on the hook” in pursuit of wickets for Kent.

Agar, 26, has signed for Matt Walker’s side on a four-match County Championship Division 1 stint and played the first of those games at Canterbury in a rain-affected draw with Essex.

The right-armer had been with Australia A in New Zealand earlier this month but is now adapting to English conditions.

“I keep it pretty simple,” he said. “I don’t think too much at the best of times!

“I’ll just do what I do, that’s what has put me in the position to be here.

“Obviously length changes here, you have got to be a little bit more full, putting your ego on the hook.

“If you get driven down the ground a couple of times, then it’s okay.”

Kent have now conceded 450 runs twice in the first innings this summer, taking just nine wickets, after they had won their opening four-day fixture against Northamptonshire.

Agar hopes to help create more chances to take scalps, ahead of their match against Middlesex at Lord’s which will start from today (Thursday).

On how the surface had played at The Spitfire Ground on his debut, he replied: “It’s definitely different to Australian wickets.

“Coming over here, you get told what to expect, but you can’t really experience it until you are out there in the middle. It’s about adapting to that.

“They’re a little bit slower, they don’t have the bounce and carry that Australian wickets do, so it’s just about adapting to that, talking to the boys, using their experience to decide how we’re going to go about it.

“The goal is to get 20 wickets. That might come unconventionally but, if we can create those 20 chances, that’ll go a long way.”