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KENT will aim to bounce back from their Twenty20 Cup elimination with two improved totesport League displays within three days.
The Spitfires face surprise Division 1 strugglers Surrey at the St Lawrence ground at Cantrbury on Sunday and then have the chance to avenge Thursday's defeat to the Hawks when Hampshire travel to play under the lights at Canterbury on Tuesday evening.
Looking forward to the two games rather than reflecting on their 64-run drubbing to Hampshire, Kent batsman Matt Walker believes Spitfire must strive for more consistency. "We now have to concentrate on what we have ahead of us," said Walker, Kent's top-scorer in their Rose Bowl humiliation.
"We have put in some good work to get up the totesport League table and if we have as good a second half to the campaign as we did the first we could be in for exciting times ahead."
He stressed: "We can't keep blowing hot and cold, otherwise we are in for yet another mediocre season."
Kent will welcome back skipper David Fulton, Martin Saggers and Geraint Jones for Sunday's game which starts at 1pm. It will represent Jones' last county appearance for a while as he joins up with England for Test duty against the West Indies thereafter. Ed Smith, dropped for the Twenty20 campaign will also return.
Tuesday's game, which is expected to attract another 5,000-plus crowd, will start at 4.10pm and is also being televised by Sky Sports.
Kent from: Carberry, Smith, Symonds, Walker, Key, Loudon, Tredwell, Jones (O'Brien), Ferley, Butler, Saggers, Khan, Trott, Dennington.