Killeen and Gay are the heroes in Durham win

EMILIO Gay hit a brilliant century as Durham coasted to a seven-wicket win over the Kent Spitfires in the Metro Bank One Day Cup at Beckenham.

- By FRED ATKINS

Gay carried his bat to finish on 119, from 110 balls, including a six and 12 fours, alongside Colin Ackermann who was unbeaten on 38 at the end.

Earlier Mitch Killeen bowled an outstanding opening spell to take three for 15 from 10 overs as Kent were held to 238 for eight.

Ben Compton made 55 before Jack Leaning hit 68 from 50 to give the hosts something to defend, but it never looked like being enough and the visitors won with 10.4 to spare.

Victory means it’s two wins from three games in the competition for Durham, following on from Friday's loss at Somerset.

Gay said: “I think we'd have had a bowl (if they'd won the toss.) From the discussions I think we fancied a chase. We've got a pretty experienced batting lineup with Bedders back in, Colin, Borthwick and Ollie Robinson as well so we've got plenty of experience.

“So I think we fancied a chase, it looked a good wicket and I think we just backed ourselves. If it was going to do a bit it was going to do it early and it played out that way.

“T think Mitch Killeen is someone with remarkable consistency at such a young age and I think in the powerplay as well, it’s such a long time it's more comparable with the red ball format than T20 cricket.