KENT have opened dialogue with ECB officials in a bid to ensure there will be no repeat of the England A bore draw against Pakistan staged at Canterbury earlier this month.

Crowd dissatisfaction, additional costs of the heightened security surrounding the touring party and England A’s refusal to open the game up meant supporters and officials from both Kent and Pakistan were left feeling short changed.

Kent and the ECB have received complaints since the game and Kent chief executive Paul Millman wants to prevent any repeat performance should St Lawrence stage an England A game again.

He said: "When you get to the stage when Rob Key is having a bowl then it’s not a great advert for a Test trial, especially when you have a few hundred school children in the ground. They want to see a proper game of cricket.

"Playing England A games in this country is a super concept but the parameters for such matches have to be better understood, by the players and those clubs asked to stage these games.

"We are asking the ECB for clarification for the sake of other club’s hosting and marketing these games in future and to ensure that non-Test matches in future don’t evolve into non-events."