Kent Spitfires registered their first win of the Royal London One-Day Cup campaign after a convincing five-wicket success against Hampshire at Canterbury on Thursday night.

Young guns Fabian Cowdrey and Daniel Bell-Drummond were pivotal as the Spitfires banished the memory of the dramatic capitulation to lose by three wickets at Glamorgan just 48 hours earlier.

After being put in to bat, the visitors had made a blistering start with ex-Kent man Michael Carberry smashing 62 from just 50 balls, including nine fours and two sixes, Cowdrey produced a superb spell with the ball to stem the tide, taking 3-32 from his 10 overs.

It was Darren Stevens who made the vital breakthrough after Carberry and Jimmy Adams (47) had fired the visitors to 80-0 in 11 overs.

From then-on, however, Kent did not allow any partnerships to form, with 26 the highest stand in the remainder of the innings as wickets fell at regular intervals.

Stevens finished with 2-59 from 10 while James Tredwell was typically miserly in Kent's twin-spin attack, claiming 1-39 from 10 overs.

Mitch Claydon weighed-in with 2-28, claiming the final two wickets to fall - including that of one-time Kent bowler Yasir Arafat who looked as dangerous as any, rattling 21 from as many balls - as the visitors were bowled out for just 233 inside 48 overs.

Kent too made a fast start to their reply, with Bell-Drummond and Joe Denly finding the rope at regular intervals.

They breezed into three figures and had piled-on 131 in 24 overs when Denly sent one back at Fidel Edwards who claimed the caught and bowled.

Denly had hit nine fours and cleared the ropes twice in his run-a-ball 78, but skipper Sam Northeast (6) and Sam Billings (0) joined him back in the pavilion to leave the hosts wobbling.

Darren Stevens made a typically breezy 21, hitting three fours and a six, but he too fell to Edwards, who claimed his third scalp (3-47 off 10) when Cowdrey (6) was caught by Gareth Berg to leave Kent 182-5, albeit with 15 overs remaining to score the 52 runs required.

However Bell-Drummond, growing in responsibility and maturity with every passing game, remained in the middle and was joined by Alex Blake for the final fling as the hosts cruised home with 42 balls to spare.

Blake planted two deliveries over the ropes and added three fours on his way to 34* from 24 balls while Bell-Drummond finished with a superb unbeaten 80 from 111 deliveries, which included seven fours, which was just three short of his career List A best.

Kent will seek to make it back-to-back wins when they face Middlesex at Radlett at 11.30am on Friday.