KENT County Cricket Club are being linked with a move for Somerset’s 21-year-old former England Under-19 all-rounder Peter Trego.

Although Trego has a year of his contract to run, Somerset chief executive Peter Anderson has given consent for Trego to look for another county and it is believed the player has already held talks with Kent.

Having released ex-Kent League all-rounder James Golding earlier this week, the county undoubtedly see Trego, from Weston-super-Mare, as a ready-made replacement with sufficient potential to be ‘trained-on’.

Having released five players this autumn, Kent could also be in the market place for an England-qualified top-order batsman and will be scouring the world for an international class strike bowler as their second overseas player for 2003.

Skipper David Fulton and coach Ian Brayshaw have pinpointed the club’s inability to roll teams over in their second innings and polish-off the ‘nine-ten jack’ batsmen as weaknesses from this summer’s campaign.

A top-drawer paceman, preferably a left-armer, would help achieve their targets for 2003 and also compliment the existing new ball attack of Martin Saggers and Amjad Khan.