Cricket Hopefully we can get on a roll now, says Glos skipper Taylor

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

- By FRED ATKINS

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 157-9. Ajeet Singh Dale took 3-24, while David Payne, took 1-18 and went for just four-and-a-half runs an over. Harry Finch was the Spitfires' top scorer with 42.

Gloucestershire’s Ajeet 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 today."

Jack Taylor said: "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.