KENT skipper David Fulton was understandably delighted with Kent’s third championship win of the season at Cardiff as his unbeaten side moved into second spot in Frizzell Division One.

Though his own batting contribution to the game was a first ball duck, his side went on to post a season’s best total and annihilate the hosts with a day to spare.

"Apart from my first-baller the game went pretty much according to plan," said the Kent skipper after his side’s second successive win.

"I picked two spinners because I thought the deck would turn more than it actually did, but it turned out to be quite a good pitch as Martin van Jaarsveld and Sourav Ganguly proved later.

"Martin has had a great start to his Kent career but the key was that he was really disappointed at the end of the first day.

"We were 350 for seven and although he was 170 not out he felt a couple of the guys had thrown their wickets away, which was criminal because we needed to get a big, big score because the follow-on was our best hope of winning.

"So the effort from Min Patel and Martin Saggers were priceless while ‘Jaara’ just kept going and going to push us up to 560.

"We gave our attack something to bowl at and Amjad, backed up by the other two seamers and Darren Stevens, did us proud. It was a top team effort."

Fulton concedes he has made mistakes in recent one-day games as Spitfires have slid to seventh in totesport Division 2 following back-to-back home defeats to Durham and Derbyshire.

Indeed he admits he is also considering standing down from the Twenty20 side and delegating the captaincy as he did so controversially last season.

However, Fulton is delighted with his side’s four-day form and the selection headache that comes with every round of matches.

"What I like about this squad at the moment is that I have so many options to hand," he added.

"We were able to leave out Amjad at Tunbridge Wells, Martin Saggers had a rest at Maidstone and Simon Cook took his turn at Cardiff.

"That gives me flexibility and the bonus of a fully fit battery of quick bowlers where as a lot of other counties appear to be struggling with injuries.

"Touch wood we will continue to be fine and that’s no fluke, it’s down to the hard work that Glen Ewan did this winter putting the guys through their paces.

"It means we’re not picking up strains and knocks and our bowlers are running in relatively fresh even in a second innings.

"Mind you, it does make it tough for some of the second team guys because despite the fact that some of them are playing quite well they can’t get a look in when it comes to the first team."