AMJAD KHAN was forced to miss the start of today's championship clash with Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge with a twisted knee.

The Danish-born strike bowler injured the knee when dropping a catch during Kent’s rain-ruined clash with Yorkshire in Leeds last week and aggravated the injury in Sunday’s Pro40 League defeat at New Road.

His place in the Kent side went to Robbie Joseph, in for his sixth game of the campaign having been dropped since the clash with Hampshire at the Rose Bowl back in May.

Hosts Nottinghamshire won the toss and elected to bat first on a bright morning.

Kent: Fulton, Key, van Jaarsveld, Walker, Stevens, Bravo, Jones, Henderson, Cook, Patel, Joseph.