Finances and a lack of options look set to end Kent’s hopes of signing an additional overseas player for this year’s Friends Life Twenty20 campaign.

The county were hopeful of going into next month’s 20-over competition with two overseas players, as they did last summer, to add to West Indian Brendan Nash, but it appears those plans have come to a halt with the players available likely to prove too costly for the county to justify a four-week stint.

Kent’s head coach Jimmy Adams (pictured) said: "We are looking but it is going to be a tough cookie. It could be that we don’t get one but it is what it is and we have players here that are capable.

"If we don’t use another overseas player then that doesn’t mean we are going to the game feeling that we have anything less than a 50/50 chance.

"The options are very very limited and then sometimes you have to look at what is available irrespective of price but you have to take into account the financials.

"We have players looking forward to it and are up for the challenge. I see no reason why we can’t do well irrespective of what XI we put on the field."