Kent vs Hampshire, VITALITY T20 BLAST 2023, Today Match Prediction

kent vs ham Match Prediction & Analysis

T20 Blast tournament is spicing up with teams fighting hard to gain crucial points from every match. Hampshire have won their last 4 matches back to back and will be looking to dominate the struggling Kent on their backyard. Kent lost their last 5 matches and they will look to return to winning momentum in this match. Both teams will look to win this match and make a move ahead in this table.

TEAMS PREVIEW

Kent Preview

Kent failed to defend the score of 151 runs and lost the match by 4 wickets in the pen ultimate over. Joe Denly was their top scorer with:38 runs off 38 balls with 4 boundaries . George Linde (19 runs) and Grant Stewart (37 runs) led their innings with crucial cameos in the final overs. They will hope their batters will post a good a big score in this match too.

Their bowlers gave the opposition to 155/4 in the match. Their trio of George Linde (1/27), Grant Stewart (1/28), and Fred Klassen (1/28) went for runs at over 12 RPO in the match. Michael Hogan leaked runs but superb with the spell of 4-0-38-2.

Key players: Joe Denly, George Linde, Grant Stewart 

Kent Predicted Playing XI:

Joe Denly , Sam Billings, Daniel Bell Drummond, Grant Stewart, Michael Hogan, Fred Klassen, George Linde, Sam Billings, Jordan Cox, Kane Richardson 

Kent Actual Playing XI:

Michael Hogan, George Linde, Grant Stewart, Kane Richardson, Joe Denly, Tawanda Muyeye, Daniel Bell-Drummond, Sam Billings, Jordan Cox, Fred Klaassen, Jack Leaning

Hampshire Preview

Hampshire won their last match against Yorkshire by 5 runs as they scored 178 runs in 20 overs. James Vince and Joe weatheland played a valiant fifties to lead their batting line-up. y and post a big score in this match too.

Their bowlers gave the opposition to 173/8 . John Turner (2/30), Liam Dawson (1/28) and Nathan Ellis (1/26) chipped in with wickets and bowled economically in the match while Mason Crane contributed with in his spell of 4-0-35-1 in the match 

Key players: Liam Dawson, Nathan Ellis, James Vince 

Hampshire Predicted Playing XI:

James Vince, Ben McDermott, Toby Albert, Liam Dawson, Nathan Ellis, Jake Weatherly, Ross Whitely, A Donald, Scott Curie, Mason Crane, Josh Tongue 

Hampshire Actual Playing XI:

Mason Crane, James Vince, Nathan Ellis, Joe Weatherley, Liam Dawson, James Fuller, John Turner, Toby Albert, Ross Whiteley, Ben McDermott, Chris Wood

PITCH AND WEATHER CONDITIONS

Weather Conditions

Canterbury is one of the placid tracks where bowlers will have an upper hand owing to true bounce. Birmingham will have bright and sunny weather on the match day with no rain expected.

Venue Details

Canterbury will have good bounce and pace that will be enjoyed by the bowlers and any target above 180 runs will be tough to chase on this pitch.

Toss: To Bowl

Both teams will look to bowl first as this pitch might ease down as the match progresses and both teams have good success rate while chasing so far.