Date-stamped : 01 May97 - 06:16
Fleming weighs in to keep Kent on course

Kent (211-8) bt Hampshire (207) by two wickets

TELLING contributions by Matthew  Fleming   and   Matthew  Walker
papered  over  the cracks in a patchy performance by Kent as they
beat Hampshire by two wickets at Canterbury.

Fleming`s  combative  medium  pace  brought  him    five  wickets
for  the second Benson and Hedges Cup game in three days, as well
as another Gold Award, and Walker was the batsman who  best  came
to  terms  with  a  pitch of slightly uneven pace  and  bounce in
making 83 off 106 balls. Paul Strang made the winning hit with 26
balls to spare to  leave  Kent  comfortably  placed  to reach the
knockout stages.

A run-rate of little more than four an over  was  never going  to
be  a  problem  for  Kent`s  free-scoring  stroke-players, but at
both 116 for five and 195 for eight they threatened  to hand  the
game  to  opponents crucially short of  reliable  bowling support
for Simon Renshaw, Shaun Udal and John Stephenson.

Source :: The Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/)

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