Nottinghamshire took just 22 minutes and 5.4 overs to polish off Saturday's 10-wicket LV County Championship win over Kent in gloomy Canterbury.

Needing 22 runs for a well deserved victory, newly-promoted Nottinghamshire got home when opening batsman Matthew Wood struck a brace of successive boundaries of former Pakistan seamer Azhar Mahmood.

A clip through mid-wicket allowed Wood and Will Jefferson to run four then, from the next delivery, Wood clattered the ball through cover to inflict Kent's opening defeat of the new campaign.

Nottinghamshire took a maximum 22 points out of the game and Kent a paltry three.

The Spitfires will need to bounce back from the defeat on Sunday when they entertain Essex Eagles in the first of their Friends Provident Trophy games for 2008.

Eagles have added Grant Flower and Graham Napier to their squad, while Kent look set to bring in Simon Cook for Yasir Arafat, who remains in hospital having tests for lower abdominal pains.

Sunday's game starts at noon, but club officials are asking supporters to get to the ground in good time to avoid congestion around the St Lawrence ground.