Surrey v Kent

KENT skipper Rob Key won this morning's toss and elected to field on the opening day of the county championship clash against Surrey at Whitgift School.

Earlier, Kent named an unchanged side to the one that drew with Hampshire at St Lawrence in the last four-day game.

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Surrey: S A Newman, J N Batty, M R Ramprakash, M A Butcher, A D Brown, R Clarke, M J Nicholson, I D K Salisbury, N C Saker, N D Doshi, Mohammad Akram

Kent: J L Denly, R W T Key, M van Jaarsveld, M J Walker, D I Stevens, G O Jones, A J Hall, Yasir Arafat, R McLaren, J C Tredwell, S J Cook.

* Mark Pennell's day one report will appear here at the close of play this evening.