KENT captain David Fulton has stood down from leading the county in limited overs' matches following his omission from the C&G quarter-final clash in Birmingham.

While he watched from the Edgbaston dressing room Kent were soundly beaten by Warwickshire, after which Fulton met with chairman of cricket Graham Johnson and committee man Chris Tavare to ascertain the club’s stance for the remainder of the season.

Fulton has since decided to relinquish the one-day captaincy and though he remains available for selection it seems likely to be the move that heralds his retirement from limited overs cricket.

In announcing the decision, Fulton said: "I remain available for selection in one-day cricket along with every other member of the playing staff and will give our director of cricket, the coaches and the players my fullest support.

"Under the leadership of our chairman of cricket Graham Johnson we have made a commitment to be 'open and honest' and, in making this change and announcing it immediately, it is our aim to prevent conjecture.

"Needless to say, I very much hope that all Kent supporters will get behind Matthew Walker and I for what promises to be a very exciting second half of the season."

Director of cricket Graham Ford, said: "David very much wanted to play in last Friday's match against Warwickshire and was prepared to stand down afterwards if the result did not go our way.

"However, the final selection for this match did not go in David's favour and whilst he respected this decision he felt that, as a consequence, he was unable to carry on as one-day captain.

"We appreciate the way in which David has approached this difficult situation and value his continued commitment to the club in his role as club and championship captain.

"We now have a structure in place to focus on championship cricket whilst reviewing both the short and long-term approach to our one-day cricket."

Fulton made his limited-overs debut for Kent at Old Trafford in August 1993, scoring 29 in a six-wicket win, and went on to announce his arrival on the one-day stage two seasons later against the same opposition.

He went out to face the extreme pace of Wasim Akram in the Lord’s final of the 1995 Benson and Hedges Cup wearing a floppy sun-hat instead of the customary helmet, a sign of his courage and his intent of knocking Akram off his stride.

Though Fulton scored only 25 and Lancashire won the day, Akram at least finished wicket-less and conceded 57 runs from his 10 overs to give the Kent opener slight satisfaction.

Yet that innings was to be one of the few highlights in Fulton’s 13 year stint in one-day cricket.

In 107 limited overs games he scored 1,937 runs at an average of 20.82 with seven half-centuries and a modest career-best of 82 scored back in 2001, the year before his debilitating eye injury.

In a typically courageous innings Fulton, having seen his side slump to 14 for two, led the repast with his 82 from 116 balls and six fours to steer his side to within four runs of victory before being sixth out.

The sickening practice-net injury to his right eye at the start of the 2001 campaign led to a knew role as a mid-innings 'nurdler', but too often he came to the crease with his side in deep trouble.

His 57-ball 50 at Edgbaston on May 1 may yet prove to be his last one-day half-century, but again it was in a losing cause and there was a certain irony in that Fulton was dismissed by Alex Loudon, the man he had failed to keep at Canterbury during the close season.