Spitfires skipper Rob Key could afford to smile after leading his side to an emphatic 90-run Friends Provident Trophy win over Surrey at the Brit Oval on Monday.

For the first time this season Kent's new ball attack found good lines and lengths to pressurise the Surrey top-order as they set about chasing Kent's stiff total of 282-7.

Speaking after the game Key picked out his winter recruit Azhar Mahmood, a former Surrey stalwart, for particular praise.

Key said: "Every single game Azhar played against us in the past he has smacked us all around the park, rather like he did the Surrey today, but for once we were sitting up there watching him do it to them.

"Yasir Arafat set the tone brilliantly first up, we had a bit of momentum going having smacked a few boundaries at the end of our innings, and Yasir made sure we maintained that with the new ball.

"Azhar was also excellent, he had a dodgy finger (he dislocated the little finger of his right hand in Hove on Sunday), had cramp and everything, yet still bowled brilliantly and got their main man Mark Ramprakash out - and that's a huge wicket in any form of the game.

"As for Ryan (MvLaren with 5-46), he was struggling a little bit yesterday (Sunday) and technically wasn't quite right with the ball but he came on and took five for today, which was a fantastic effort."

Kent return to action on Wednesday when they travel to Trent Bridge to take on Nottinghamshire in an LV Championship game over four days.