Kent head coach Jimmy Adams has revealed the club are in discussions with several targets and that the county are hopeful of getting "a couple of players" in to help boost the squad.

With Kent set to lose James Tredwell to England duty and Azhar Mahmood to the Indian Premier League, both of whom will now miss the start of the season, the county are in need of reinforcements for an already skeleton-thin squad.

Players both domestic and overseas are targets for the club, and although Adams (pictured) would not be drawn on who the club are speaking to, he did reveal they were hopeful of signing an overseas player for championship cricket and not just Twenty20.

He said: "We are still in the same position and until I get someone’s signature on a piece of paper then I don’t really like to say too much.

"But we are hopeful of getting maybe a couple of players in, but as to who I would wait to say.

"As for overseas, we are targeting championship cricket as well for them."

Preparations for the new season will step up a notch next week as Adams takes his squad for a 10-day training camp in the Caribbean.

A 14-man squad heads to Antigua next Wednesday and the head coach is hoping to use the trip to learn more about his players ahead of three pre-season fixtures at the end of the month.

He said: "The lads are pretty much chomping at the bit to get out there and start getting a taste of cricket away from the indoor centre."

Adams, 44, is yet to make any decisions on the strengths and weaknesses of his squad but believes he will have a greater understanding by the time the club begin their pre-season campaign against Middlesex at Beckenham on March 23.

"Once we get outdoors it puts me in a better position to make a judgement as to where players are, it is difficult to do that when you are on artificial surfaces indoors," he said.