Up and running Gloucestershire see off Kent to seal first T20 win

VITALITY Blast champions Gloucestershire sealed their first win of the season, at the sixth attempt, after beating Kent by seven wickets at Canterbury with 10 balls to spare.

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Skipper Jack Taylor top-scored with 54 not out and Ollie Price cashed in with an unbeaten 41 after being bowled off a no ball and dropped.

Earlier Kent posted a modest looking 157 for nine. Ajeet Singh Dale took 3-24, while David Payne, took 1-18 and went for just 4.5 an over, with Harry Finch the Spitfires’ top scorer with 42.

Gloucestershire’s Singh Dale said: “Obviously we're just delighted to be up and running now.

“We were wondering when that first win was coming and felt like we were playing some good cricket so we're delighted to be up there.

“We've just tried to keep it simple [in the last two games].

“We've had two wickets where you just felt that hitting the wicket hard was going to offer something so we didn’t have to go to our yorkers or variations too much and I think as a group we did that really well.”

Skipper Taylor added: “They've been a long time coming so it's nice to get over that hurdle and hopefully we can get on a bit of a roll now.

“I just think we were sharper in our execution and it’s what we've asked of the guys in the first five games and we did today. I thought we pegged them back really nicely in the first innings.