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Beyond the Boundary: Kent all-rounder Darren Stevens writes exclusively for the KM Group

Kent all-rounder Darren Stevens receiving his player of the year award from the President of the Kent Supporters' Club, the Rev. Canon Chris Byers.
Kent all-rounder Darren Stevens receiving his player of the year award from the President of the Kent Supporters' Club, the Rev. Canon Chris Byers.

The future of the club seems uncertain at the moment but the players want to know what the future holds as soon as possible.

We want to know where the club is going. We have a meeting on Tuesday where hopefully we’ll find out more from the hierarchy.

There are lots of rumours going around that things might happen that mean there might not even be any Kent cricket in the future. These are scary times. As players, we just want the club to be honest with us and the supporters on the future of the club.

We want to hear that the club is going forward. We’ve hit a bit of a stumbling block over the past couple of years but we all want to progress. We just want to be in a position to recruit players and compete in all forms of the game.

I haven’t heard anything directly but I have heard rumours flying about that there are clubs keen to recruit Kent players.

I don’t want to leave, but for myself as a senior player I could be done and dusted in three or four years.

I love helping the younger players as they start out on their careers but sometimes you have got to be selfish.

I want to be competing for trophies and playing against the best. Hopefully I can do that at Kent.

The last four or five weeks we have been going with 14 or 15 players and it has been tough.

We have been using the youngsters and there are still a couple of players who shouldn’t be playing through injury.

If we are running with an even smaller squad next season all it would take is for three serious injuries and we’d be in trouble. We’re already scouring round the club leagues for 12th men. It doesn’t look professional.

I want to stay with Kent and am happy here. My time at the club has been the most enjoyable, most memorable, most rewarding, most successful – most everything of my career.

I didn’t really learn the game until I got to Kent. I had fun at Leicestershire but this has definitely been my most enjoyable time.

The supporters have always been brilliant with me and I hope that can continue.

It was great to pick up the Player of the Year Award (pictured) – it is on my mantelpiece already. I won player of the year in my first year but had a couple of bad years with injuries after that.

This has been a different season for me. I hit a bit of a stumbling block in terms of four-day runs late on and pretty much took as many wickets as I got runs in the end.

None of us players want to go through a year like this again.

It’s been frustrating. There have been ups and downs and we’ve played some good and some poor cricket.

We have reason to have confidence in our one-day game but we know we have a lot of work to do in four-day cricket.

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