Who Will Win Lancashire vs Kent, Vitality Blast 2018?
The first quarter-final of the Vitality Blast 2018 will see Kent Spitfires take on Lancashire Lightning at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury. The match will be played on August 23 with live telecast scheduled to commence at 7 PM local time.
Kent vs Lancs: Where to Watch/Live Streaming
TV channels: Sky Sports, Fox Sports, Sony Six, SuperSport
Live Streaming: Bet365, SonyLIV, Now TV, Sky Go
Toss Prediction
Four of the last six T20 Blast matches played at the St Lawrence Ground have been won by the side batting first. And also since the wicket is expected to get a tad slower later on in the evening, the team that wins the toss in this match is more likely to bat first.
Read on for team previews, betting odds, betting tips and match prediction for Kent vs Lancashire, Vitality Blast 2018...
Kent Team News & Playing 11
KENT Team News
Kent have kept the same playing eleven in their last two matches and we expect them to turn up unchanged for this first quarter-final as well unless there are any injury concerns. As of yet, none of their players have been reported to be injured.
KENT Key Players
Joe Denly is undoubtedly the x-factor in this Kent line-up. He has not only scored the most runs for the side this Vitality Blast - 396 runs which includes a century and two half-centuries - but he is also their leading wicket-taker with 19 wickets in 12 matches. His opening partner Daniel Bell-Drummond has been Kent's next best batsmen this season and he is coming off a magnificent 51-ball 80 against Essex. Sam Billings has three fifties to his name and he too can be pretty dangerous with the bat. Apart from Denly, Kent will be counting on Adam Milne and Calum Haggett to take wickets and apply pressure on Lancashire. Milne with 12 wickets this season looks the more threatening of the two and he could provide able support to Denly from the other end.
KENT Recent Form
Kent Spitfires have finished the league round as the second-placed team in the South Group standings with eight wins and two losses from fourteen matches. They are going into the knockout stage on the back of three successive wins - they first beat Middlesex by three wickets, then Somerset by five runs before winning their last match against Essex by five wickets. Kent were very impressive with the bat last time as they overhauled a stiff total of 201.
Kent Predicted Playing 11
Joe Denly, Daniel Bell-Drummond, Heino Kuhn, Sam Billings (c/wk), Alex Blake, Sean Dickson, Grant Stewart, Calum Haggett, Adam Milne, Mitchell Claydon, Imran Qayyum
Lancashire Team News & Playing 11
LANCS Team News
Lancashire had made a couple of changes to their side for the last match against Birmingham Bears - Jordan Clark and Toby Lester were replaced by Josh Bohannon and Mark Watt respectively. The team will probably retain both of them for this crucial match and so we expect them to go in with an unchanged line-up.
LANCS Key Players
Alex Davies has been the most consistent batsman for Lancashire in this year's T20 Blast. The opener has hit six half-centuries so far and is currently the third-highest run-getter of the season. Karl Brown has struck a couple of fifties and he had recently played a fine knock of 61 against Birmingham Bears. Arron Lilley is having a strike-rate of close to 160 and he too is one of the key men in this batting line-up. James Faulkner, Matthew Parkinson and Zahir Khan will be the go-to options for the skipper when it comes to bowling. Parkinson is among the season's top five bowlers with 20 wickets in 13 matches and he was the standout performer with the ball last time with figures of 2-16 from four overs. Faulkner has 18 wickets in as many matches while Zahir has seven from five.
LANCS Recent Form
Lancashire have finished third on the North Group points table after winning eight and losing five out of their fourteen league fixtures. They suffered a crushing seven-wicket defeat at the hands of Birmingham Bears in their previous match. Prior to that however, they had beaten Yorkshire Vikings, Birmingham Bears and Durham Jets respectively to win three matches on the bounce. Lancashire were let down by their batsmen in the last game as the entire line-up folded up for just 102.
Aug 23, 2018
23:30 IST / 18:00 GMT
St Lawrence Ground - Canterbury, England
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