Beyond the Boundary: Kent's Darren Stevens writes exclusively for the KM Group
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I missed the game against Durham this week because I’m attending
my grandmother’s funeral in Leicester on Thursday.
We did talk about me playing but I didn’t want to let the boys
down by having to leave on the last morning. It wasn’t an option to
miss it either because at this time it’s all about the family.
Everyone in our dressing room enjoyed watching Rob Key’s double
hundred this week. I went for a swim and went home to have
breakfast and watched the first couple of hours on the TV.
He had to fight his way through it early on but then got going
against the spinners and he looked in as good a form as I have seen
him in the five years I have been at Kent.
I was at the ground later and he was on about 180 when I left,
so I missed all the fun at the end.
Keysey has gone back to the bat I gave him last year, which was
the one he scored hundreds with. He used it on Sunday when he got
87 against Warwickshire and he just looked fantastic on Monday.
Steve Harmison may be down on pace but he has still got good
control.
I was pleased with my hundred against Essex last week on a good
Chelmsford pitch and going in with the team in a good position at
244-4.
I was sorry I didn’t get more than a hundred and disappointed to
get out in the second innings as well. My old Leicestershire
team-mate Dave Millns gave me out lbw but the ball pitched outside
as I explained to him in the bar afterwards when he asked me
whether I had looked at it on the video.
We went to Warwickshire on Sunday and I got on the wrong end of
a good ball early on to be caught behind by Tim Ambrose.
Rob Ferley did well to get 52 and with all those wickets falling
we would have been happy to just get to 120. He and Rob at least
got us in a position to set a decent target but our fielding let us
down a bit as well.
We are certainly not out of the Clydesdale Bank 40 competition
and there’s still a lot of cricket to look forward to. We go to
Scotland this weekend and need to find a bit of form.
Then it’s off to Durham for another championship game starting
on Monday. Talk to you from there next week.
Thursday, May 20 2010
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