Ben Compton is determined to help right the wrongs of Kent’s 2025 season.

Opening batsman Compton was the main winner at their end-of-season awards night - for the second time in four seasons - last week, finishing as the second-highest run-scorer in County Championship Division 2 on 1,386 runs at an average of 60.26.

Adding to his second men’s club player-of-the-year accolade, Compton also picked up the men’s batter-of-the-year gong alongside the men’s players’ player-of-the-year award, as voted for by his team-mates.

Compton recorded a new first-class best score of 221 against Leicestershire in July in another superb summer on a personal level.

“That’s always a great honour, especially getting the players’ player-of-the-year,” said Compton, grandson of England great Denis Compton.

“That’s probably one, if I speak on behalf of the players, we hold very dear to our hearts, amongst them all. I’m not trying to say one is more important than the other.

“But having your team-mates who you see pretty much every day for six months give you that recognition, that’s pretty special.

“I think we’re all very driven to put the wrongs from this season right, to really up-skill and to look at ourselves in the mirror and do everything we can.

"We have all the right information. We had a four-hour meeting on the day of the dinner to discuss where we fell short, as a team and as individuals.

“I think we all know where we went wrong. The hard part is to put the work in now.

“That’s everyone’s challenge this winter.”

Kent started life under head coach Adam Hollioake with successive four-day wins on their return to second-tier cricket in April.

But they were to be Kent’s only County Championship victories in what was another disappointing summer despite Spitfires making the Vitality T20 Blast quarter-finals.

Compton said: “My personal perspective on it is our challenge is consistency.

“If you look at the side that played those first two games against Northamptonshire and Middlesex, we completely dominated the games and then we had a draw against a strong Gloucestershire side. So, things started well and one does wonder why there can be such a big drop-off.

“Injuries are definitely part of that. I feel like a stuck record, saying we have had so many injuries this season, but it’s definitely a factor.

“I guess our collective feeling is if we can have such good performances and such poor performances, we’re just trying to understand why that happens. What are the factors that lead to that?

“Then, just trying to find a middle ground as a side. If you look at Leicestershire, who won it (Division 2) this year, their strength was just being incredibly consistent.

“I don’t know how many teams they kind of bulldozed but they just played really good cricket consistently. That’s what wins you Championships.”

The awards dinner saw Kent men’s and women’s squads, coaches, staff and partners gather together at Canterbury's Spitfire Ground.

Compton was again happy to do so alongside their female counterparts at Kent.

“I actually thought, despite the season, especially in red-ball cricket, the dinner was quite positive,” he said.

“I really enjoyed talking to a lot of the people there. The girls were really excited and chuffed to get to recognise their respective players’ achievements.

"That was nice to see and that’s definitely heading in the right direction.

“There’s been a lot of emphasis from the board members and the general direction of the club to improve that side of things so it’s nice to see that moving in the right direction.”

Compton played with a broken wrist in Kent’s season run-in, having been involved in a nasty collision with team-mate Tawanda Muyeye against Lancashire while the pair attempted to run between the wickets.

“It was bizarre,” admitted Compton. “I think we were both going really well, he was on 30 or 40 and I was on 70, and just building a good partnership.

“Then, you can’t really script that. I think Adam Hollioake was a bit speechless!

“With all of his years in the game, he’d never seen anything quite so bizarre like that. It was nasty. It wasn’t just a light bump, he was heavily concussed and I fractured my wrist - it probably summed up our season!”

Kent Spitfires’ Fred Klaassen and Tawanda Muyeye have been picked to play in the fourth season of the International League T20 competition in the United Arab Emirates.

Both will link up with former Spitfires, with Muyeye playing for Desert Vipers alongside Afghanistan spinner Qais Ahmad, and Dutch international left-arm bowler Klaassen alongside ex-Kent batsman Sean Dickson for Gulf Giants.

The 2025/26 ILT20 starts in Dubai on Tuesday, December 2, with the final being held in January.